One of the hardest things to learn when you're in the first few years of your voice over career is rates. Specifically how to avoid bad voice over rates, how to deal with aggressive voice over job listings. You know what I'm talking about? How to negotiate voiceover rates and when and why in perpetuity is bad for voice actors.

Now, when you're in the first few years of your career, rates and negotiation tend to be a bit of a black box.

First of all, why do we negotiate? Why do we negotiate voice over rates? How do we spot aggressive voice over job listings on the voice over websites and voice over job boards? And ultimately, how do we avoid bad voice over jobs and bad voice over deals?

Is Voice Over Rigged? What the VO Business SHOULD Be

Today I want to talk straight from the heart, and I'll start by saying that I am head over heels madly in love with this business we call voiceover. It's given me gifts I can never begin to repay. A sense of accomplishment, fulfillment, freedom over my life. Creative freedom, flexibility in my life, money, deep, rich friendships, you name it. Voice over has given it to me and probably more things than I could ever really list if I sat down to list it all out. I love this business more than anything I've ever done professionally. And second isn't even close.

That said, this business is not perfect. It has things that need fixing.

professional development, marketing, familyPaul SchmidtJuly 28, 2022vision, fixed, rigged Comments

How NOT To Use Linkedin To Find Voice Over Work

Welcome back and welcome to how not to use LinkedIn to find voiceover work. When it comes to LinkedIn for voiceover artists, how not to use LinkedIn is just as important. These are my best LinkedIn tips for voiceover when it comes to how to find voice acting clients. And stick around because I'll also tell you how to correctly use LinkedIn and give you another tool which will save you a massive amount of time and effort in your voiceover marketing.

The 3 Biggest Voice Over Website Design Mistakes

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.

business, marketingPaul SchmidtJuly 14, 2022websites, website design Comments

The Top 3 Worst Sites For Voice Over Work

Nobody 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.

Do I Need a Logo for My Voice Over Business?

There 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.

marketing, businessPaul SchmidtJune 23, 2022logo, branding, brand Comments

Why DIY Demos Are a Bad Idea

There’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.

The Number One Threat to Your Voice-Over Business

Most 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.

Quoting All-Media Buyouts in Voice-Over

A 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.

business, rates, mindset, messagingPaul SchmidtMay 26, 2022buyouts, all-media Comments

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