The WORST Thing You Can Do on Fiverr and Voices.com
Alright, when it comes to Fiverr and Voices.com, there is one worst thing you can do making money online doing voice over work. Today, we'll discuss that regarding Fiverr versus Voices.com, voiceover freelance sites in general, how successful voiceover professionals find voiceover jobs online, how they make money online, and create income from websites for voiceover work.
Now, it's no secret that the voiceover industry is changing at light speed. 20 years ago. Voiceover freelance sites and online casting sites weren't even a thing. Now that's where a lot of nonunion voiceover work is bought and sold and where many professional voice talent go to find their voiceover work.
But as a result, we've seen the increased commoditization of voiceover work and a lower barrier of entry for new talent to start your voiceover career.
This notion that the voiceover industry has anointed gatekeepers is bullsh*t. It's easier to get into and make money at voiceover now than it ever has been, largely because of the rise of Fiverr voiceover work. It's easy to make money on Fiverr doing voiceover work even without reputable training with a reputable voiceover coach.
So if you're a newer talent looking for voiceover jobs for beginners, looking for voiceover jobs online, wondering about Voices.com versus Fiverr versus Upwork, searching for voiceover opportunities online, not necessarily knowing much about voiceover marketing and trying to find those precious voiceover jobs without much success, then it can be frustrating. Deflating. Discouraging. Overwhelming.
But I'm going to give you some advice right now from the bottom of my heart. One of my voiceover tips that I wish someone had given me early on. Advice that will keep you from damaging your voiceover career early. That will give you the best chance to build a real career and a great reputation in the voiceover industry. And the best chance to make money with voiceover that you can actually live on.
Here it is. Avoid sites like Fiverr and Upwork. And I'm now adding to that list Voices.com.
The Voices Announcement
Just last week, as of the writing of this piece, Voices.com made the following announcement.
"We're excited to introduce a new price point to attract clients.
You can now price your non broadcast voiceover projects starting below $100, which will give you the opportunity to build relationships and trust with new clients through smaller projects. Why We Are Making This Change. We received client feedback that they often have small short projects worth less than $100, particularly in non broadcast voiceover, the most popular job type on our platform.
Because of this feedback, we wanted to make this change in order to drive more work for you."
Well, bless your heart, Voices.com. Always looking out for the humble voice actor. My god, there's more cheese on this announcement than a Chicago deep dish pizza. More spin than the Tasmanian devil. More crap than a porta-potty at a hot sauce festival.
You want to guess what the minimum job is now on Voices.com? Go ahead. I'll wait....
Five bucks. It's five bucks. What an amazing coincidence!
So now you get to pay hundreds of dollars for the gift, the veritable privilege of bidding on jobs under $100. Because that makes sense. People ask me all the time, is Voices.com worth it?
Well, there's your answer.
If you're a pro and you ever needed any more evidence that these sites do not have your best interest at heart, there it is.
And Where’s All That “Work” Going?
Now, in an actual coincidence, we talked about this before J. Michael Collins recently predicted that 100% of all sub $100 voiceover jobs are going to go the way of the dodo bird to artificial intelligence, voice modeling, and voice clones within the next five years.
The very ones Voices.com now so graciously accepts for the good of the humble voice actor.
So if you're voices.com, what's your end game here? One could certainly say it looks like they're positioning themselves to get into the AI voice market.
Who knows? Honestly, who cares? This piece is about you, not them.
Sitting passively on the voiceover websites is the easiest thing in the world and Easy Street is about to be closing.
If you're not properly trained in voice over performance and you don't know how to go find your own work yourself, the easy voiceover jobs are going to be gone and you're going to be standing there with your Kaotica Eyeball in your hand wondering what the hell happened.
So let's not let that happen.
Gimme Two Steps
There are two main steps you can take to future-proof your voiceover business:
Step one: Get more and reputable voiceover performance training. Get good at what you do, sharpen your skills. Learn to sound like a real person - messy, imperfect, spontaneous. If you're on the Fiverr and Upwork bandwagon, if you think that this Voices.com announcement is good for you and that your work isn't going to decrease and disappear, you'd better get trained so that you can sound authentically human.
Step two: And maybe the most important step, take finding your own work into your own hands. Make the shift from passive to active. Learn how to market your skills yourself so that you don't have to rely on somebody else's business like Fiverr or Upwork or Voices.com for the success of your business.
I teach a program to take voice actors from having no plan, relying on the pay-to-plays, making part-time income, to having a system to grow relationships at scale that lead to more consistent business, booking, and income.
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