So let’s (for the sake of argument) say that you and I are partnering together on a business venture. We are going to build the perfect Voice Over Casting Site.
It’ll be a Pay-To-Play site… and it will be an amalgamation of the best parts of all the voice over casting websites that are on the market these days… so It’s a Frankenstein’s monster (remember Frankie was the doctor… his creation was the monster) consisting of the best from Voices.com, Voice123.com, VOplanet.com & Bodalgo.com
What would it be like? What would it have?
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This Weekend I did the unthinkable.
I told a paying customer not to send me anymore work.
For a year now I’ve been “courting” this voice over agency. The owner is a nice guy… a little quirky but nothing far outside the ordinary. I contacted him back in 2008 and we’ve been emailing back and forth. He would ask me to audition for a job… I would and then something would happen and someone else would get the job.
Nothing new there, I mean this is the deal with every single voice over casting agency I deal with. You win some… you lose some.
Very often you lose more than you win.. but the wins are sufficient to keep the ball rolling and the work coming in.
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Misconceptions
One of the biggest misconceptions about the voice over industry that I have come across is that it is easy to be a full time voice over artist. Personally I would love to have enough clients to sustain me and my family month in and month out on the income that a lucrative voice over business can generate.
Alas my connections are not yet that vast and my income from VO is not yet sufficient to do so.
For those who are lucky enough to establish themselves in the voice over industry and making a full time living out of it things are increasingly looking hard. Economically the world is in a downward spiral that doesn’t seem to be stabilizing. Whether this is because the world’s governments are still spending with no regard for the fast approaching cliff’s edge (at this stage the US government’s reckless spending and loaning policies are the most vivid) or because of the collective belt tightening that almost all the mega corporations are starting to practice, being a full time voice over artist is just not bringing in enough to maintain some artist’s previous lifestyle.
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Greetings and Salutations dear readers,
I wanted to tap into the minds and experience of the VoiceOver collective and ask a question that sometimes bothers me. Is it just me or has working in the voice over industry sometimes made you feel like you are a fishmonger in the local market.
Whether its during a communication between a client or an agent proxy I find that sometimes the haggling can get tiresome and somewhere along the line I decided to get very very stubborn.
I am sure that the Global financial crisis (a gift from the last US president as far as I am concerned) has caused some serious financial belt tightening. The ripple effect from this crisis has devastated thousands of companies and has caused the laying off of possibly millions of people worldwide.
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Good Morning, For those of you not familiar with late 80s Heavy Metal ... that was the title of on of my favorite Megadeth albums. I just thought that I would update you guys with the blog's upgrade situation. Currently I am redesigning and adding new features to the blog. I was going to use the same standard theme that I am currently using on the voiceover-casting.com servers... but decided to dish out some money and buy a premium theme with added functionality. This means that I'll be able to deliver more elements to my readers. At this point in time I am
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