The email came from Malden, Missouri. Deep in the "bootheel" of the Show-Me state.A budding voice actor had just finished reading my book, and was taking seriously my admonition to get good coaching before going much further down the road to VO success.Not that it's backwater, but Malden is 150...
Rupert Murdoch? Nope.Sony? Huh-uh.Comcast/AOL/TimeWarner? Not even close.Google.I know, I know... Apple has $194 Billion in cash, and is a media darling, but Google (which Steve Jobs hated) is moving ahead of all other also-rans.Google is 136% bigger than #2 - Disney...and bigger than Disney and...
Why not just do it for free?This blog officially beats the proverbial dead horse -- again -- but I can't stand it anymore!I ran across a tweet for this Fiverr VO offer yesterday:https://www.fiverr.com/linneas88/record-any-voice-over-today?This person's pitch goes on to say: I am a professional...
For once, my "traditional media" friends in the newsroom seem to be on top of this latest social media trend more than my VO friends -- all of whom have said, "what's Periscope?" when I asked if they'd heard of it. Periscope allows live streaming of anything, anytime, anywhere through the magic of...
That was fun! For an hour and then some, voice-actors wound up Twitter, and let 'er rip today with a TweetChat on the topic of Social Media Marketing for VO. And the best thing is: it's all been saved for posterity thanks to our moderator and also today, a contributor: WoVO Pro, voice actor, and...
This is the Rave new world we live in. Social Media can neither be 100% dependable as a marketing plan, nor can it be totally ignored. There are some reliable methods and techniques emerging in this realm that you can learn and use. Those of us who have been hammering away at this can help. Anne...
Seriously... the pace of our modern world has no parallel...no comparable period in human history. We could revel in such a time of innovation, technical abundance, and information-sharing, but the truth is; it's a challenge. As we prepare for Wednesday's #WoVOChat on Social Media Marketing for...
Isn't it funny the stuff you pick up from your acting assignments sometimes? My inspiration for this blog article actually came from an E-Learning module I was reading yesterday. The script used the old adage "can't see the forest for the trees" to make a point for the presentation being...
The "studio" was hard to find. My host told me by cell phone to look for a side-street, then up a dirt ramp...behind a portable office, around the batting cage, and over by the go-kart garage. I began to wonder what I'd really gotten myself into. Back in February of 2014, I participated in a...
No other topic at WoVOCon II captured my interest like this one. This last weekend, I probably spent 5 hours in 3 separate sessions that had to do with marketing...and I still don't get it. "Marketing" is like this mysterious black box that takes all your time and then returns...well...in my...
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