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“The only factor separating success from failure is the determination to work hard, and the willingness to engage with prospects.” Mark Hunter-The Sales Hunter
Just learned via my email that James and Penny over at the VoiceActing Academy, are holding another FREE Tele-seminar titled “No Mater What You’ve Heard…Voiceover is a Business” — The Nuts & bolts of Voiceover with James Alburger & Penny Abshire.
It’s going to be on Monday, October 5, 2009 for about 60 to 90 minutes.
Here’s a little bit of blurb from the email:
“In these changing economic times, being an excellent person has become every bit as important as being a good performer. On this call, James and Penny will discuss the “Nuts and Bolts” of the voiceover business – the things you must know and do in addition to mastering your performing skills.
Here are just a few of the things that will be discussed on this call:
- How to find clients, make them happy and get them to love you forever!
- Why social networking can help you find work
- How to set up a functioning office and keep efficient records
- Why keeping your name “front of mind” with producers and agents is critical
- How to discover the right branding for your talent
- How to know when you have a good demo, or if it needs some re-working
- How to target your best marketing strategies
- How to discover your uniqueness and use it to your best advantage
- How to prepare for your first website, or improve the one you have”
If you can’t make the phone call, registered peeps can get access to a recording of the call for one week after the date of the call. I used this method for their last tele-seminar and the info was most illuminating.
You can get more info at their website: http://www.voiceacting.com
This week I got my mitts on two videos for which I did voiceovers. One is an animation, and the other is a corporate promo piece. I’ll have to post them here soon. A cut from the animated wacky Christmas one is on YouTube (YouTube channel: animedolphin).
So, what’s your favourite voiceover gadget that you find really helpful, and couldn’t imaging being without? Mine is my Olympus Digital Voice Recorder. It’s pocket-sized. I can record on it and then transfer it to my computer. The quality is quite good, and it’s handy enough to take anywhere and catch all kinds of different voices of interesting people around me; or if I get an idea for a project or a voice, I can record it before I forget. I have a couple of other gadgets on my wish list, which I hope to acquire in time as well.
Another thing that I find helpful is a site called MediaFire. You can store and transfer files there. I chose the paid option, which lets me transfer files without adverts. If I am travelling, or away from the office, and something comes up [peeps want a file, they don't want to go to the website; or for an audition demo]– I can just nip over to MediaFire and send a file from there. I also use it for sending large files to clients. I send them a link and they can download it.
It’s time for show and tell. Have you got any gadgets, tips, hot sites that you want to share? We’re all ears!
By the way, anybody got any suggestions on good recording applications for the ipodTouch?
Cheers…
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