Voiceover Town Hall
You try…you really do. You hang out in forums, visit FB Groups, watch YouTube videos, read blogs, and listen to podcasts. You’re online probably more than you want to be, but such is the oft-times...
View ArticleVideo: Newest Rates Roundtable!
[an earlier article with this title and pic was published erroneously. This is the “real” one!] Hot on the trail of last week’s big “State of the VO Industry Town Hall” meeting, World-Voices...
View ArticleDisappearing Days
You know…and I know you know, that this is the last day of July. The average sunlight is waning gradually, Christmas Trees are appearing at WalMart, and Halloween is roughly 90 days away. Folks…we’re...
View ArticleAre You a Leader? Yep!
Thursday and Friday of last week, I hosted the Las Vegas viewing of a world-wide Leadership Conference. It is broadcast annually to locations all around the world to millions of viewers, and has been...
View ArticleTales From the Trail
In 1985, I met the guy who shared my trip on the Oregon Trail last month. Back then, we were both newsies. He, an ass’t News Director; me, a fledgling anchor. But it’s an excellent example of lasting...
View ArticlePersistence is Your Friend
This’ll be brief. An observation. An encouragement. Back in the last decade, when I was a VO newbie with stars in his eyes and a bedrock certainty that I was on the cusp of voice acting success, I hit...
View ArticleFreebie Friday
Everybody seems to have turned against Facebook lately. Yet, Instagram is the new social media darling. WTF?…FB owns Instagram…and they keep trying to mess it up! For now, though, everybody thinks IG...
View ArticleSituational Awareness
Now…Our Top Story! Almost every day, I get a request from someone who wants to join the online VO community I once created on Google+. Situational awareness, people! Google announced late last year...
View ArticleReframe Your Voiceover Outlook
Career Reframe Christian Kolberg used to work for the local newspaper publisher. Then he realized he had a knack for auctioneering. That’s him to the right, and him with me on the far right at the...
View ArticleAre VoiceOver Newbies Welcome?
Support Voiceover Dreams Every day a new amazing voice is born. When the owner of that voice grows up, people tell them “you should be in radio” (not knowing that radio these days hardly has any...
View Article12 Ways to Succeed in Your First Audition (the phone call)
Working on getting a new client? You’ll never even get a chance to send her/him a demo unless you get past your first audition. Huh? Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. It goes back to the old...
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