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If you are a producer, a marketing manager, or a creative services professional, you may have problems specific to your business and the hiring of voice talent. MONEY & ACCESSIBILITY Historically, quality, established voice talent have only been accessible through...
Someone called me out recently on having a Canadian accent, in a social setting, and wondered if that hindered my voiceover business. Actually, she assumed it did. If I wasn't so polite, I'd have bit her head off...in the kindest, most gentlest way, of course... It is...
VO Mastery & That's Voiceover - Two Conferences, Back to Back I had the luxury of attending two voiceover events in L.A. recently thanks to my living close to the city. Panel discussions and Q&A, well known voice actors and industry players were all the order...
VO: Tales and Techniques of a Voice-Over Actor - Book Review by Tracy Lindley It all started one day when I was watching VO Buzz Weekly. You know, that invaluable and infinitely intriguing show dedicated to all things voiceover. You’d have to live under a voiceover...
My Personal Voice Acting Self-Critique Ever had the chance to go back and look at work you've done in the past, only to realize what you might have done differently? There are only six lines in this commercial I voiced for Leon's Furniture, Canada, in 2012, but three...
Time and Timing Plays an Important Role As a waitress, I used to know, almost to the minute, when food should be up in the window after I placed the order. In voiceovers, we are able to read scripts to time almost to the second. This sort of internal clock seems to...
Warning: this is personal. A recent trip I spent a long weekend at a retreat at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York. I experienced some of the Western world’s foremost devotional singers, Deva Premal & Miten, Krishna Das, and Jai Uttal, and others such as...
Creating a list of unique selling points is important to help you stand out as an employee, an interviewee, a company What makes me stand out from any other female, middle-age voice talent? It’s taken me years to know why and how I was in any way different from...
Hiring Voice Talent that fits Your Business Brand As a start-up, the need to add a voice to digital marketing could vary when hiring voice talent. To be clear, a voice talent is essentially the voice of your business for videos, explainer or brand videos, for websites...
Best Tips I follow as a Freelance Voice Actor It’s very easy to lose sight of goals and purpose in the nitty-gritty, day-to-day operations of a freelance and entrepreneurial enterprise. But, there is nothing like working for yourself!! My three top tips... Be...
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