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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.
The ancient concept of Yin and Yang is well known as applied to the sexes – the complementary opposites of female and male. But voice over veteran Paul Strikwerda sees it every day in this profession, too: our need to interconnect seemingly contrary forces. Like, should we specialize or generalize? Play it safe or experiment? It’s truly a balancing act …
A summer lawn and a voice-over career have a lot in common, finds seasoned voice actor Moe Egan. If the grass is greener on the other side of the street, it’s likely because your neighbors have devoted more preparation and care to it. Same with a VO career, say Egan – who shares these pointers for being a good career gardiner …
When you start your own voice-over business, you get to call the shots. That’s one of the reasons you decided to be your own boss, notes long-time voice actor Donna Reed. But how to keep that business going in tough economic times? Donna offers perspectives and tips …
“Fear can be a good thing. It can help you avoid situations that are truly harmful, keeping you away from the edge of the cliff,” writes popular voice actor Bob Souer. “But anxiety – groundless fears about what ‘might’ happen – is never good.” How true. And here, this master storyteller shares how anxiety shaped his 26-year path to full-time voice acting …
If your voice-over work comes only from auditioning on the Internet pay-to-play sites, it could be time to move up to big-money voice-over jobs, says international voice talent and coach Bettye Zoller. Begin with homework researching advertising agencies and agents who need your voice now, she says in this primer for her June 14 webinar. And learn how the business works to snag the jobs with big pay and residuals …
With 20+ countries that have Spanish as their primary language, it’s impossible to please everyone with your voice-over performance. So multilingual voice actor Amy Taylor finds that the best way to be understood by the most people is to speak “neutral” Spanish – with precise enunciation and terminology …
Note: The author is a panelist at the VOICE 2010 (June 2-5 in LA) session on Voice Actors & The Internet, where he will share experiences and advice for maxing the…
Voice Actor ©2010 David Brower For a few seconds, close your eyes and visualize a three-legged stool. It will help you to stay focused on what’s truly important to keep your…
Voice Talent Growing up as a kid, I always looked forward to the first of April. I would plan days ahead for just who, and how, I would trap some…
©2010 VoiceOverXtra What’s it take to “turn off” a prospective voice-over client & agent & producer & colleague? Unfortunately, not much. And today as we rush through social media postings…