Philip Banks has pretty much always been outspoken and to the point. His humor is often biting but to me quite straight forward. This is what he had to say about the conference… the last line he says was the most surprising though.
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The following are a few pictures of friends or acquaintances of mine (and a few celebs) that attended Voice 2010. These were uploaded by Dave Courvoisier and can be found on his site http://www.socialmediavo.com/ Dave Courvoisier (right) and Doug de Nance (left)... you might remember Doug wrote an interesting bio article called My Secret's Out for TVE a while back. Andy Boyns and Dave Courvo shmooz at Voice 2010. You might remember Andy from the article I wrote about him a while back... as you can see he was able to raise enough money and attend the conference. Philip Banks (left) and Bob
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Voice 2010
If you aren’t already there then you might know someone who is. Voice 2010 is in full swing and my friend and fellow VO and blogger Dave Courvoisier is presenting it this year (much the same as he did during the last the conference.). Dave is giving a blow by blow account of the events currently taking place at the conference on his blog here.
Although I couldn’t be there myself I did take part in Advertising The Vocieover Pavilion in the Event Brochure (page 22 if you are reading it from V2010):
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Origins
As a few of you might know, I am Palestinian. The blood running through my veins might have some mixed Arab ancestry but the town my father was born in and his father and their fathers for centuries are, for now, under occupation.
It’s one of the last places in the civilized world where one group of people still occupies another. I am neither from Gaza (although my Aunt’s husband is from there and she still lives there) nor am I from the West Bank (although I have family living there as well). No I am from the bit right in the middle where an invading people in 1948 decided to evict the local populace.
Which makes me a refugee.
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Jodi Krangle
Note: This is a reworking of a previous article I wrote back in 2003 for the independent musicians and songwriters that dropped by my songwriting resource, The Muse’s Muse. Here’s a completely revamped version specifically for voice actors that I hope will help you all out.
Before I began doing voice overs full time, I was in the Internet Marketing business. I started that back in 1995 when the web was a MUCH smaller place. But there are some concepts that really haven’t changed much, even from back then – and a lot of them have to do with making your website as accessible to the search engines as possible. You’d be really surprised how many folks miss out on this particularly important concept.
Here’s the thing: unless you’re a household name, no one’s going to be searching for your unique voice over services by your name alone. They’ll use keywords. Those keywords might be things like, “professional voice over” or “male voice actor” or “female voice actor” – or any host of other ones that might apply. You want to make sure that you choose keyword phrases that are two or three words so that you’re specific enough not to be competing with millions for the same keyword, but with enough people searching for them to drive traffic to your site. Choosing the proper keywords to market yourself over the Internet – and where to place those keywords (hint: not just in your keyword meta tag!!) – is an article in and of itself though, so I’ll merely say that building a website so full of doodads and whatsits that the search engines can’t “see” half of it, is a *bad idea*.
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