The following was a series of comments left by my friend and Voice Over Guru David Kersten. The comments were left at the previous Blog post : http://voiceover-casting.com/emporium/negotiating.html I found them very informative and I thought you might too: Comment #1 Hey Taji There is a counter argument to using the economic crisis as an excuse to delay payment, and that is to insist on earlier payment as you don’t even know if they’ll still be in business next week or the week after! The last thing you want to do is take in number and stand in line for your payment should your client become...
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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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Morning Compadres, Today's blog post title is based on a lyric from a song for a band called My Morning Jacket. It was recently featured in the animated series American Dad... and I found it appropriate to use for this post since we're talking about Voice Over community sites on the web. Very recently I got an the following email: Meet and join to the better website for Voice Talents Hello, Visit the www.ChooseAVoice.com and meet the website that was build in fit for you to disclose yourself. We don't talk only your language, we also talk the language of your client (in english, spanish or...
Read MoreThis last weekend was quite the busy weekend. As they say in Half Life 2... Prepare for Unforeseen Consequences. After Friday Prayers: Since moving to my new home in the 'burbs... I've found it a little difficult to stay in touch with my friends from the old neighborhood that I lived in. So every friday... I drive to my old neighborhood... pick up my old neighbor (who happens to be one of my best friends) and we head on over to the mosque I used to go to for friday prayers before the move. Its a nice tradition that I'd like to keep going...
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