Most online companies, including voice over artist small business owners, market wide and ignore borders. But there may be an opportunity that is ripe for harvest in your backyard that many of us overlook. Businesses that are already remote can still keep pumping out product and services during the … [Read more...] about How to Help Local Businesses in the COVID Crisis
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Voice Over Best Side Hustles
Starting a Voice Over career can be expensive and usually takes a few years to establish. Often new voice actors need to supplement their income. Some supporting jobs may be too demanding or distracting and not leave you with enough time or energy to nurture your burgeoning VO career. The right side … [Read more...] about Voice Over Best Side Hustles
Top Ten Voice Over Blogs – Number 3 Bill DeWees
It's the second instalment of my list of the Top Ten voice over blogs to follow. For insight and advice into the voice over industry there are a few bloggers who dominate. Yesterday we revealed the first (as in alphabetically first) two awesome bloggers. Today we have two more out of the … [Read more...] about Top Ten Voice Over Blogs – Number 3 Bill DeWees
Top 10 Voice Over Blogs
Blogs can be the most insightful and rich source of free information in the Googlesphere. But there are a lot of them out there. In fact, Google told me today that there were 505 million blogs in the world in 2018. Within that daunting figure, voice over blogs are a narrow niche. For voice over … [Read more...] about Top 10 Voice Over Blogs
Voice Actors, Reasons You Need to Be at V.O. North
If you’re a voice actor, and live within driving distance of Toronto, you are in for a treat. The reasons you need to be at V.O. North are more than a chance to learn and grow at an industry specific conference in your own backyard; that you’ll get the biggest bang for your buck of any VO conference … [Read more...] about Voice Actors, Reasons You Need to Be at V.O. North
Voiceover Read Rate, and How Improving It Increases Your Bottom Line
What the heck is a read rate? As a voiceover artist, your read rate is the difference between the length of your raw voiceover file and the length of your finished, edited one. And if you do any long form narration, it's something to strive to ever improve. For example, if it takes you three hours … [Read more...] about Voiceover Read Rate, and How Improving It Increases Your Bottom Line