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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.
Read MoreToday, we're going to warn you about five ways where you can really damage your voice acting career, things that can truly hurt your voiceover career and give you a negative reputation, which you don't need. Stick around, because I'm also going to give you five best practices to build your reputation in the voiceover industry, build your career, and enrich your life.
Read More"How do I set and negotiate proper voice over rates?" That's one of the most common questions I get from newer voice actors. In fact, just this week I had one of my students in the VO Freedom Master Plan ask it in just this way. “I also feel like a huge obstacle for me is pricing knowledge. Knowing how to price myself and how to justify my prices, I don't want to do cheap work in many businesses I've reached out to directly have told me they just use places like Fiverr to buy cheap VO. Drives me nuts"
It drives a lot of people nuts, so let’s get into it.
Read MoreYour most important asset as a voice actor and as an entrepreneur is your time. Because whether you're a brand new voice actor who just cracked the mic for the first time, or whether you have 40 years of experience, you still only have 24 hours in a day.
And in order to scale your time, you need ample tools to help you do that.
Now, among the most powerful and useful tools to help you scale your time is called CRM: Customer Relationship Management software.
Read MoreWelcome to the three hardest truths about voiceover agents. And stick around because at the end I'm going to give you a bonus truth you're not going to want to miss.
To start, one of the biggest questions for many voice actors in the early years is, "How do I even know when I'm ready for an agent?"
And the best way to think about this question is to think like an agent, which in many ways is just like being a voice actor.
Read MoreNow, I hear you saying, "Well, Paul, surely you're Schmidting me. There's no way you made $35,000 in voiceover in one week." I absolutely did make that money in voiceover. And in this video, I'm going to lay out the systems processes, methods and the specific jobs that added up to $35,000 of voiceover work in one business week.
Read MoreOne 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?
Read MoreToday 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.
Read MoreWelcome 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.
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