Archive for March, 2010
In the past week there seems to have been quite allot of activity in the Scam Alert section.
Because the scam alert section is static and not an article I was starting to notice that allot of the comments were basically getting hidden. That meant that people not subscribed to the Scam Alert section would have no way of knowing if there was an update or if some new scammer has started to operate.
So to make life easier for myself and for you guys I have decided to create a forum within TVE. The new forum will be called Taji’s Voiceover Oasis and it will contain an area where voiceover artists can go and speak their mind without having to wait for me to come up with a topic of discussion.
The link to the forum has been added to the navigation menu on the right (after About) and you’ll notice I’ve added 2 different verification systems so as to avoid any spammers registering with the forum.
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Morning Folks,
A bit of Drama and Action have been happening lately because of a bit of misunderstanding that occurred on the Voiceover front.
In case you are not yet aware of it, Taji’s Voice Emporium has a section dedicated to listing Scam Artists that Voiceover talent worldwide have had bad experiences with.
The Biggest scammers so far are a casting agency in India called VoxBox run by Melroy D’Mello, Michelle D’Mello and Shawn Pereira.
These people have taken the fact that they are based in India as protection from any litigation that might come their way and have scammed several artists out of their hard earned cash.
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Lately I’ve been dealing with allot of none voice-over realated businesses. Other than being a professional voice-over artist I am also a creative professional (advertising, marketing, design). So more recently I’ve dealt with software developers and programmers.
The conclusion I have come to is that. I don’t like them. Not because they aren’t funny or they aren’t friendly people. The truth of the matter is that they are very savvy with regards to some of their business practices.
But not all.
Their idea of customer service is having a forum up and letting people discuss their issues about the software.
That’s not customer care. That’s just an easy way for you to find out what’s wrong with your software on the cheap and fixing it.
That has got me thinking about my personal business practices and what they could mean to my clients.
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Morning Folks, It's been a year since I launched my personal website (dedicated to my voiceover business) and my old site was kind of Zen... very sparse and with lots of empty space. So I figured I'd treat myself to a nice new site with nice big graphics and a new interface. The whole thing cost me $35 and I bought the theme at themeforest.net. My site is built using wordpress so it's pretty easy to modify... its just finding a theme that suits your needs that takes the longest time. Other than that, and since I am a designer, the rest of the...
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Today’s post is a combination of different elements.
Working Toward Skype Conferences
First, and let’s get this out of the way. If you have Skype and you would like to chat with Taji (whenever he’s available – because remember I live in Cairo, Egypt) then add the account m.taji with the code TVE in your first comment so I know you are one of my blog readers.
I feel sometimes that sitting in-front of the computer and writing (in my head talking) to the screen sometimes gets me out of touch with how you guys are feeling and what you might be going through in the industry and I hope to remedy that by having honest-to-God conversations with those in the trenches and on the frontlines.
Note of Caution
I might not always be at the keyboard when my skype is on… I have it running about 8 hours a day and sometimes I need to do things away from the computer. Please take no offense if there is a delay and if you send me a message… be patient… I will answer back. I might not always be available for video chat … but I can usually either text or audio chat during the periods I am online.
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