Last week I addressed the question, “Do you need Source-Connect for live, remote sessions?”
This week, we’ll look at sessions that are live, but not remote, and take a deeper look at the options and capabilities of each.
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One of the questions I get often from students is, “What is Source-Connect and should I get it”?
Source-Connect is a digital connection application for remote audio recording and monitoring, voice-over, and ADR recording. Essentially, it’s an app you can download and buy a license to (either outright or via monthly subscription) that allows you to connect to other Source-Connect studios worldwide.
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You get paid for your impact, not your effort. Learn how to respond to a client who mistakenly believes that more impact shouldn’t cost more.
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Yes, everyone is stressed. We have a global health crisis, rampant systemic racism (certainly nothing new), social and political unrest, catastrophic natural disasters, climate change, staggering unemployment, and massive disruption to our basic routines.
Still…
There’s a phenomenon that was well in place long before the pandemic, which seems to have accelerated since: The public, online asking/begging for work. It’s got to stop.
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In the course of my daily prospecting earlier this week, I just happened to reach out to someone at a production company while they were on the phone with their casting director. It turns out they’re casting a network TV show that will rely heavily on voiceover and as luck would have it, dumb luck generated the opportunity for me to audition.
Except it wasn’t dumb luck.
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Everybody's got them. Everyone. And if you say you don't have any, you're either lying or a sociopath.
They're those voices in your head. The ones that talk shit about you to your face. (For a voice actor, they're especially insidious because they sound just like you.)
I've got'em. They're loud. They're persistent. Persuasive AF.
Here's what mine say:
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A quick tip for creatives, solopreneurs, anybody who not only creates, but who has to go out and sell your product or service.
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It was my fault.
I got a little case of the yips. A little bit of nerves. Panicked a little bit in the middle of the audition.
Let's just say it wasn't my best work, and for weeks I've been beating myself up about it.
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Finding an experienced, reputable expert coach is a foundational step in any performance oriented career. Finding one that’s a good match for the performer is part luck, part research, and part art. The combination of well-matched talent and coaching can do special things.
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You can't try something once, suck at it, and claim it doesn't work. There are lots of great and valid tactics out there that if misused or not executed consistently and strategically over time...
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To my Dad, it was more important to shake hands and do business again, than it was about winning. That’s always stuck with me. Here’s why…
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When I was a kid growing up in Baltimore, we had a chain of electronics and appliances stores called Luskin's. Jack Luskin was the seemingly affable company spokesperson and made himself known as "The Cheapest Guy in Town."
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As Seth Godin said recently, there are two ways to solve a problem and provide a service, either with or without drama.
If you’re setting and managing proper, realistic expectations, then why are you on a constant diet of crisis management?
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About a decade ago, I was interviewing for a job, and the CEO of the company asked me a question, "What drives you?"
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