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Today, we're going to talk about the top three biggest voice actor website designers in the business, specifically the mistakes most voice actors make when building a voice actor website. We'll also show you some voice actor website best practices that you can use when you're either working with an experienced developer or DIY on your site so that you can avoid these common mistakes.
Read MoreNobody starts out looking for the worst places to find voice acting work.
But if you're going to look for the best voiceover websites to find voice acting jobs online, it's also useful to know the voiceover websites to avoid and more importantly, why they're sketchy at best.
Read MoreThere seems to be a lot of confusion over voice acting, branding, voice over logo design, and the distinction between a logo and brand identity for voice over. And in this post, we'll answer a ton of questions about a logo and branding for voice actors.
Read MoreThere’s a great moral throwdown in the original Jurassic Park movie when Ian Malcolm, (Jeff Goldblum) tells the park founder, John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
As so it is with DIY voice-over demos: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
Read MoreMost of us mistakenly tend to focus on external threats to our well-being. We endlessly worry about the things that could do harm to us, that threaten our physical, psychological, social, or financial well-being. Psychologists call this rumination.
The problem with focusing on the external is that we waste an inordinate amount of time and useless energy on things we can’t control.
Read MoreA fellow voice actor recently reached out to me on LinkedIn:
Hey Paul!
I was wondering if you had a quick minute to help me price a VO project. I'm not great at pricing things, tbh, and I don't know what to do with the GVAA rate guide when it comes to multiple usages. I could really use your guidance!
It's a [foreign] production company that's doing a [category] campaign. They want a :90 script with multiple cut downs, a :20 script, 5 years, worldwide, all media.
I'd love your thoughts on this!
Let’s discuss the All-Media Buyout.
Read MoreI’ve been pretty vocal on social media about so-called “coaches” in this business who purport that Fiverr, Upwork, Craigslist (for chrissakes), and the like are the key to a career as a professional voice actor.
My problem is not with these sites. My problem is with the scarcity mindset and the so-called “coaches” who teach it.
Read MoreIf you’re a voice actor long enough, and you’re reaching out to enough people daily, no matter how diligent you are about targeting the right people, occasionally, rarely, (one in hundreds or thousands), you will get a nasty, mean, or otherwise rude response.
Read MoreWe have a very passive industry. We suck at marketing ourselves. We’d much rather sail hundreds of auditions into the ether on the pay-to-plays than sit down and do the work to reach out to people.
Here are the three biggest mistakes you’re likely making in your voice-over marketing and why you’re making them.
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