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We Don’t Need a Special Day or a Turkey to Give Thanks
Some days, you wake up and you just know there's a particular something that needs to be done before you do anything else. So, today's the day I take the time to thank a whole bunch of amazing voice-over people (some of whom I've never even had the pleasure of meeting yet) and wonderful friends who've been very helpful to me, amazingly generous with their time, and wildly supportive in too many ways to count. Click their names to visit their websites. Trish Basanyi Donna Coney Island DB Cooper Dave Courvoisier Liz de Nesnera Melissa Exelberth John Florian Dan Friedman Grover Gardner Lee Gordon Jeffrey Kafer Lisa Leonard Mike McKay Bruce Miles Paul Payton Kristin Price-Wilson Steve ...
» continue readingValue-Added Services: Consider This
Do we robotically provide a service without considering its real value? Going above and beyond… doing something extra for our clients is what good service is all about. It is not simply performing the one basic task we’re being paid for. But in providing those little extras, do we consider before performing them whether they are truly helpful and will be appreciated? A number of years ago, after being broadsided by another car, my car’s driver’s door needed to be replaced. I might’ve needed something more than observation, myself, if it hadn’t been a low-speed collision. The car was towed to a ...
» continue readingTips to Avoid Catching Colds
No Lie: It’s been over two years since my last cold. But because I’ve just come down with one, I thought it would be a good time to share the research I did a couple of years ago. This is not guesswork or speculation. My information was compiled from the websites of the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and of various universities, hospitals, health practitioners and respective product manufacturers. These are preventive measures; no guarantee is implied, individual results may vary. What happens if you’ve been booked for a voice-over job and then come down with a cold ...
» continue readingA Much-Needed Attitude Adjustment
Close enough, yet far enough away, I grew up during the 1960s and 70s about 30 to 40 minutes west of New York City. I was a Baby Boomer in media market #1. Our house began as one of many unheated vacation log cabins. By the time we moved in, it had grown to include two additional rooms and a garage, plus a solarium had been later added to the rear of this first addition. The house sat on two lots, and so we had quite a large yard, front and back. And our back yard would have been (and might ...
» continue readingIt Ain’t Just Talking
Some factual insight into pursuing a voice-over career. (originally published in 2008) What may make a career in voice-over so appealing to some is that they may feel it has a lot of glamour attached to it. Very much like a career in film acting. The growing popularity of entertainment publications, movies, and television shows reflect the public’s fascination with people who make six-figure (and higher) salaries for what appears to be easy work. After all, those who speak and act for a living make it seem so effortless. Anyone with aspirations for success in any field must realize that we don’t often ...
» continue readingTake the Wraps off FaffCon 3 in September @ Hershey
What a sweet way to wrap up Summer! Amy Snively invites you to FaffCon: a participant-driven unconference, by and for working voice over pros. This is talent in the trenches helping each other figure out how to get better at what we do, and make more money doing it. First-timers and Frequent Faffers, please save the date for a very chocolatey FaffCon 3: September 23-25, 2011 at the Crowne Plaza Harrisburg-Hershey, PA. Click here for more information on FaffCon 3!
» continue readingWerdz Is Our Biznis
Remember how our teachers always stressed the importance of spelling, especially when composing our résumés? What company would want to hire an individual who either couldn’t spell everyday words or words commonly used in the industry in which he or she was seeking employment? Why would anyone risk their credibility by globally publishing not only their unfamiliarity with trade terms but their apparent decision to not even check their work before sharing it... or, even worse, attempting to pass themselves off as a knowledgeable authority on any given subject? Not so recently I found on a web page offering voice-over advice two ...
» continue readingI’ll Share What I Know, But I’m No Know-it-all
It’s great that the web allows us to share information so freely, isn’t it? In professional circles, where we all can learn from one another, information sharing has the potential to make us all better at what we do. But like so many things that are free, there actually is a cost involved. And in the case of knowledge, the cost is having to distinguish between knowledge that is true and that which is - shall we say - less than true. In this case, I refer to the myriad tips and tricks, the ‘how to do this’ and ‘how to ...
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