Morning Folks, Welcome to my forth installment of Bits and Pieces where I go around the web and bring you information relevant to the voice over industry or just stuff I find kinda cool. This time I will be posting interesting video posts that I found entertaining or beneficial... Enjoy: 1. The Vendor / Client Relationship (off of Bob Souer's blog) 2. Setting up an e-commerce website in 5 minutes (off of instinct.co.nz's website) This video is relevant to the last series of articles I wrote about setting up a more secure (technically and financially) way of delivering your final audio work 3. Here are a
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This article is part 3 in a series. The series so far contains the following articles:
This was not done on purpose as I am just fumbling at this point trying to find a solution to several issues at the same time… and all related to improving my voice over business:
- Provide my clients with a professional looking audio file delivery system
- It must Look good, function well and be secure
- It must (when applicable) allow me to add an audio file as a downloadable digital item which the client will need to pay for before receiving the download link.
- It must integrate with Paypal or any other payment system without glitches.
- It must if possible be for free
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This is just a thought here… but since I’ve been elbow deep in server muck looking for a way to deliver the files to my client in a professional way I got a little epiphany.
Since some of us find it somewhat cumbersome figuring out if a first time client will pay or not we end up with moments of panic and possible seconds long hysteria.
Here is the scenario: You are doing a job for a client… this is the first time you do any work for them and you don’t know if they are trustworthy or not. You’ve heard horror stories of people getting contracted to do work … they deliver the work (quite naively) without watermarks to ensure client payment of the job.
The client downloads the file… and that’s the last they ever hear of them. This can drive a person nuts… the idea of getting swindled or digitally mugged is enraging just to think about let alone to experience.
So what do you do?
Some of us watermark… others request half now … half after delivery… but again … how do you guarentee that you will get paid the second half after delivery? Read More
It was something my boss mentioned that triggered this whole hair pulling experience.
He wanted to know if we could utilize a professional looking section in our website that looked like yousendit.com which provided our affiliates and clients with a section in our website for them to download their files from. Being a little more tech savvy than the average individual I went and researched the issue and came up with two solutions.
- You get a membership with a website like yousendit.com and maybe spend an average of $3,000 per year because we’ll need multiple users on the system
- Purchase a php script for around $200 and install it on our servers and have our clients download the files from us directly instead of paying yousendit.com to host our files.
I was definitely pro the second option since that meant that I would save our company money and we don’t often have to use this website based application so it wont be too big a burden on our measly middle eastern internet bandwidth and we don’t have to abide by any company’s storage limit since it will be hosted on our servers.
Then it struck me that it would be a great thing for my voice over business website to have a nice professional looking download area for my clients. I mean I am sure they would appreciate a professional looking site that was:
1. easy to use
2. professional looking
3. secure.
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As you might have noticed if you are a regular reader of my posts. I often try to introduce you to elements of my faith. I do this in the hopes that with repeated exposure you will come to better understand my faith and what I stand for.
In approximately 9 days the Holy Month of Fasting, Ramadan, will start and I wanted to share with you a little bit about it.
I have chosen an article from a travel blog to illustrate the point of view of a non-muslim that she may bring insight where someone as involved as me in the Islamic culture might not:
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