Lately I’ve been dealing with allot of none voice-over realated businesses. Other than being a professional voice-over artist I am also a creative professional (advertising, marketing, design). So more recently I’ve dealt with software developers and programmers.
The conclusion I have come to is that. I don’t like them. Not because they aren’t funny or they aren’t friendly people. The truth of the matter is that they are very savvy with regards to some of their business practices.
But not all.
Their idea of customer service is having a forum up and letting people discuss their issues about the software.
That’s not customer care. That’s just an easy way for you to find out what’s wrong with your software on the cheap and fixing it.
That has got me thinking about my personal business practices and what they could mean to my clients.
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Morning Folks, It's been a year since I launched my personal website (dedicated to my voiceover business) and my old site was kind of Zen... very sparse and with lots of empty space. So I figured I'd treat myself to a nice new site with nice big graphics and a new interface. The whole thing cost me $35 and I bought the theme at themeforest.net. My site is built using wordpress so it's pretty easy to modify... its just finding a theme that suits your needs that takes the longest time. Other than that, and since I am a designer, the rest of the
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Today’s post is a combination of different elements.
Working Toward Skype Conferences
First, and let’s get this out of the way. If you have Skype and you would like to chat with Taji (whenever he’s available – because remember I live in Cairo, Egypt) then add the account m.taji with the code TVE in your first comment so I know you are one of my blog readers.
I feel sometimes that sitting in-front of the computer and writing (in my head talking) to the screen sometimes gets me out of touch with how you guys are feeling and what you might be going through in the industry and I hope to remedy that by having honest-to-God conversations with those in the trenches and on the frontlines.
Note of Caution
I might not always be at the keyboard when my skype is on… I have it running about 8 hours a day and sometimes I need to do things away from the computer. Please take no offense if there is a delay and if you send me a message… be patient… I will answer back. I might not always be available for video chat … but I can usually either text or audio chat during the periods I am online.
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Good morning folks,
Today’s post is a collection of basic tutorials and updates on what’s been happening at TVE (that’s Taji’s Voice Emporium).
Voiceover Professionals Directory
If you’ve been following my recent posts. You know that I’ve been working on a new voiceover website. It’s an insanely cheap directory for Voiceover Professionals that is basically a kind of Yellow pages for the voiceover community.
Now I’m still tweaking the site so it’s still technically offline. But here are a few features :
1. You can upload your glamor shot or logo if you have the premium and prestige accounts.
2. You can have a demo or two of yours available in the listing. I will not be storing the demos on my server so technically the demos will be streamed from your site but played through a multimedia interface at the directory.
3. You can submit yourself for multiple categories but you’ll have to pay for each resubmission.
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Getting started as a professional voice-over artist is thrilling and confusing at the same time. All of a sudden you have to become a pro at voice-over technique, a marketing expert, and a tech-savvy Pro Tools guru. I trust that you got your professional voice-over training, and there are hundreds, if not thousands, of social media marketing tips to help you get started. Pro Tools LE takes a bit more time to get used to, so here are some beginner tips to help you figure out the rest. The Hardware We’ll start off by looking at your Mbox. There are many different
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