Stephanie from Voices.com Answers my Allegations of Marketing Negligence

Well Folks, It took her a little time but Stephanie Ciccarelli co-founder of Voices.com eventually got back to me on why Voices.com seemed to be burying their Ebooks section. Effectively unmarkating their marketing books. Here is my original post dated March 31st. link Here is her answer and rebuttal for my publishing haste: Hi Mahmoud, Thank you for emailing me. I read your article earlier this morning. The eBooks used to be promoted through the Voices.com Help section and in other places on the website. When the site was redesigned it was an admitted oversight to not include them in a more

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How Much Should You Charge? What Rates Should You Use?

April 1, 2009  |  Articles, Casting Sites, Voice Over Misc  |  No Comments  | 

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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Why Is Voices.com Not Marketing their Marketing Ebooks?

Why Is Voices.com Not Marketing their Marketing Ebooks?

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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Shameless plug of the Day

March 30, 2009  |  Articles  |  No Comments  | 

Hey folks... its me again and I'm here to give you my first shameless plug of the day... maybe later on I'll be famous and people will  pay money for me to try their products out... Lux! are you listening! Anyway... If you guys had read my previous posts about marketing yourself through your website.. you would have realized that I was actually doing just that. And recently I registered the domain mahmoudtaji.com and started the process of figuring out how to design and implement my new website. One person who provided endless advice and was and still is one of the

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Winter New

Copyright Digitalblasphemy

Winter New

March 30, 2009  |  Taji Related Incidents & Experience  |  No Comments  | 
Copyright Digitalblasphemy

Copyright Digitalblasphemy

As you guys know I like to shake things up every once in a while… So as a change from my usual cutting edge investigative journalism (believe it or not I do have a degree in journalism that I don’t use!) I have decided to showcase a poem I wrote (and voiced) last August I wrote this … and eventually voiced it (low quality on a computer mic without a pop filter… so I added a flange effect to cover the audio ouches) as an audition for a job.. it required the voicing of bits of literature etc… anyway I wont explain what I meant by it because it could mean something completely different to you… which gives it the chance of being personal to you. Read More

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