Business. The word alone used to send icy shivers down my spine. But, to be a professional artist, as in be able to write “artist” or “musician” or “dancer” or “actor” on your annual tax forms (aka more money coming …
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Dream Counsel: How to Find a Mentor in the Entertainment Industry
Breaking into the entertainment industry whether voiceover and acting or music and producing is not a clear-cut path. It’s not like medical school or studying for the bar. The road is circuitous and different for everyone. Like the traditional professions, …
How to Find Voice Over Talent You’ll Love: Voiceover.Biz
The online world cracked opened immense possibilities for working with industry pros in a non-geographic specific way. It’s also made it difficult to sift through the ocean of dust to find your diamonds. That’s what makes voiceover.biz so special. Looking …
eLearning Fail: Why Profs Should NOT Narrate
An educational eLearning client recently asked me for referrals for sound studios builders. They’ve decided to build a place for their professors to record. This got me, the professional voice actor thinking…
Both of my university aged daughters have complained …
How to Voice Over ELearning for Kids
Just like this Porifera named Bob, children are like sponges. Sometimes we forget how quickly and how much they pick up and next thing we know, they’re repeating words we may not think they should incorporate into their vocabularies just …
Choosing the Right Voice Over eLearning Software, or DAW
For eLearning voice over actors new to the increasing ‘virtual office’ and ‘home studio’ reality of this industry, just how technical our job has become may shock you at first. But if you want to make it in this industry, …