So I finally got around to Steven Lowell’s answer to my post Voice123 wants to turn my account inacctive
and loe and behold… I read this in his blog post answer (please keep in mind that he provided this answer to put my mind at ease)
” Now, I am sure that we all like to park ourselves on websites for good exposure, but the plain and simple truth is…You are either in this voice over business or you are not. It is not wise to throw your name on a website with the hopes they will find you, and then, not pay attention to it. You have to be there to answer when someone comes fishing around to offer work for you. In the eyes of those ‘looking for talent’, they have specifically stated they view this as false advertising. ”
First let me define the term Public Relations: Read More
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Morning Y’all.
I wanted to take a step back from my back to basics category of blog posts and take a look at what’s happening with the VO casting scene. I don’t think I need to interview anyone at this point in time since most of these are my thoughts and are very editorial like…
So yeah I was reading the Vox Daily blog from Stephanie at Voices.com and they were mentioning that they had to change the look of their front page to this…
What you’ll notice is that they no longer have that list of showcased voice over talent… most viewed… most listened… recently hired etc. Read More
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Whether you belong to a Union or Not there is always an issue when it comes to how much you should charge for a job. Some of our members believe that the Voice Over casting sites ( I guess now I should upgrade the term to be the 3 Vs…. voices.com, voice123.com and voplanet.com) are driving the rates down… are taking jobs away from the pros and are generally causing havoc in the universe. I was going to cut and paste the contents of a few resources here… but I figured that the post would be around 10 pages long… and it would take you 3 hours to scroll to the end of it so I decided I would just cut and paste the links to the Voice over rates and rate related calculators that I have found. Read More
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Morning All, (I’m writing this up morning cairo time… which is probably when you guys are about to go to sleep) anyway hopefully when you guys log on to voiceover-casting.com you stop by my blog and check out what Taji is up to.
As you might have noticed I am a bit of a trouble maker… not so much that I break things or commit crimes… but rather I ask embaressing questions to people in our industry. Sometimes they ignore me… and sometimes I bug them enough to answer. But for now let me tell you the backstory of today’s post:
A while back I was browsing the voiceover-casting.com site and came across a member’s comment that peaked my interest. Read More
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