Career: WHO’S Resolving WHAT For 2010? Check These VO Plans – TAKE ONE …
It’s time! Blow out the candles on 2009 and light the fireworks for a brilliant 2010! For a little help from your VoiceOverXtra friends, peer over their shoulders to see what they’re writing on their Voice-Over New Year Resolutions lists … TAKE ONE: DB Cooper, Bob Souer, Peter Drew, Janet Ault, Dan Lenard, Bettye Zoller, Rosi Amador and Larry Wayne. Learn more in TAKE TWO tomorrow!
the hardest working man in voice over
James Brown – the Hardest Working Man in Show Business While James Brown may have been the hardest working man in show business (correctly pronounced by those of us in the industry as “bid-nez”), I am going to canonize myself as the hardest working man in voice over (correctly pronounced by those of us in the industry as “voice talking”). Picture if you will (channeling Rod Serling) a vigorous lake effect snow storm with 30 m.p.h. gusts and blinding snow falls
New Year’s Career Revolutions
Voice Over XTRA came out with a goodie this week and some spectacular career advice from veteran voice actor Bob Noble. In light of the pending New Year, and all the talk about resolutions… Read and consider the possibilities.This is a really good article!
My New Posterous Blog – Post-amp
As I’ve been mentioning here on The Lazy Voice-Over, this blog will soon be closed. The posts will remain here as a form of “archive” for those that reference some of the tips I’ve posted here. As always, I’m trying to look ahead to where things are headed, and the Posterous …
The vook gets another look
My friend Jane Ingalls emails with a note about an article in the Washington Post a couple of days ago, another look at the new genre (a mash-up of video and text) called the vook.
A quick MP3 voiceover demo tutorial
My friend Anthony Mendez provides a very cool demo of how to not only how to set up a demo player, but also an auto download of the file. Very cool Anthony. Thank you.
Marketing: Web Stats … It Doesn’t Hurt To Know Who’s Hitting You – And How Often, by John Florian
Being in voice-overs today and not having a web presence – or even several of them – is like forgetting to turn on your mic. Talk, talk, talk … but who hears? Savvy web marketers take this a step further – checking who visits their web sites and how often. Why bother? To answer this, we turn to Rick Gordon, voice talent and owner of Commercial Voices.com and e-LearningVoices.com – two online meeting spots for voice seekers and voice talent …
Career: How To Make 2010’s Voice-Over Resolutions A Career REVOLUTION, by Bob Noble
From past experience, we know that most of our New Year Resolutions won’t survive past the middle of January, says veteran voice actor Bob Noble. But if you truly want 2010 to be a better VO business year, ditch the wishful thinking and write a winning Action Plan, says this game plan cheerleader. Here’s how, with career-boosting suggestions …
Thoughts On Thinking Big
Thoughts on “Thinking Big” You’ve heard or seen the chatter of certain individuals within and outside of our business who appear to know everything there is to know about their subject, their field of work or specialty. They say they are at the top of their game, boast of their material possessions and brag their credits constantly, and insist that taking any kind of training or learning anything new is useless and unnecessary. In essence, they have stopped to grow their
Planning for 2010
Bob Noble’s article at VoiceOverXtra on making a New Year’s REVOLUTION is well worth a few minutes of your time. (And thank you John Florian for the email alert about this article.)