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The long game. Career strategy, business structure, productivity, mindset, and navigating an industry that keeps changing. Includes the full MO-JOE Friday video archive from Joe Loesch.
Are you investing your voice over career time wisely – or simply filling time without a plan? Voice talent and Certified Professional Coach Ron Minatrea speaks from experience on how to focus on what’s truly important to your ROI …
If the rangers at Yosemite National Park can use voice recognition software to ID individual owls there – how long will it be before YOUR voice is tagged for instant recognition? Elizabeth Holmes explores novel uses of this technology …
Voice actor Roxanne Coyne has been too busy with career and family to have her car serviced … and now, oh-oh. A huge repair bill has arrived. It got her thinking about a tune-up for her voice over business – and the discovery of some scary gaping holes …
There’s no avoiding challenging times in your voice over career – but how you react determines how well you recover and move forward. Voice actor / solopreneur Maxine Dunn shares four pillars of strength to see you through …
Paul Strikwerda politely advised a client about a script’s grammatical error and was told to read the script as is. A few weeks later, the client wanted the recording redone with the corrected grammar – but for no extra pay. (Paul refused.) Lesson learned: How to spot clients to avoid …
Amid your race to be first with online audition responses comes research that finds the LAST “event” may be viewed more positively. Elizabeth Holmes explains in this new Sounds Odd column …
What brings you back to your favorite restaurant time and again? Great service is key, says voice actor Joe Thomas, who serves up 7 tips for being a great voice over waiter …
Think your natural speaking voice is a matter of anatomy? More likely, it’s shaped by the first language and dialect we learn, finds Elizabeth Holmes in her “Sounds Odd” column #12. And your ability to discern pitch accurately improves your consistency between recording sessions (take note, audiobook narrators) …
Ever have a day where you get to about 3 p.m. and realize you haven’t accomplished anywhere near what you had planned to? (Happens often, huh?) Voice talent / coach suggests Time Blocking as a way to get more done, and here’s how …
You’ve completed a project that should satisfy your voice over customer’s needs. You worked hard to keep all of his directions and desires in mind. But the customer promptly responds with unhappiness about what he received, and he is not nice about it. What to do? J. Christopher Dunn has an eight-step approach …