Working Voiceover Online Tips to Stay Successful
Being online isn’t enough if clients can’t reach you. Tips for voice actors on staying responsive, keeping a calendar current, and updating demos.
Being online isn’t enough if clients can’t reach you. Tips for voice actors on staying responsive, keeping a calendar current, and updating demos.
How the IVR phone system evolved from 1960s tone dialing to today’s automated menus, and why companies pick certain voices to greet their callers.
Work’s gone quiet? Here’s what voice actors can do with the downtime: conventions, webinars, a gear check, fresh demos and a marketing rethink.
What audiobook narration asks of a voice actor, from vocal stamina and acting chops to editing, plus why the author, not an agency, calls the shots.
Competition for voice over work is stiffer than ever, so stop complaining and get better. Advice on demos, deadlines, and how you talk to clients.
Casting directors weigh in on what sinks an audition, from stuck speech rhythms to audition nerves, plus why your first 10 seconds matter most.
Video, brand campaigns, audiobooks and accented English are where the work is in 2016, plus why a fast turnaround keeps clients coming back.
Video game voice work splits into four lanes: character voices, narration, automated announcements and instructor packs, with examples of each.
Auditions drying up? Why casting slows in November and December, plus training, marketing and rest ideas from Christina and Esther.
What goes into a business voicemail greeting, with sample scripts for internal, external and out of office messages, and why a pro voice helps.