In voice-over as in all business ventures we think a lot about networking, and numerous articles have been appearing about it lately in various internet haunts that I frequent, including voice actor haunts like the Voice Registry Blog. It’s an indispensable activity, intimately related to marketing. But, it is not marketing and it shouldn’t look [...]

What do you do to ensure you don’t provide voice-over work for free, unintentionally? You’ve worked hard to achieve your current professional status as a voice talent, you’ve made some hard decisions about the rates you will charge, you are striving to make a living, and you don’t want to give your work away except [...]

Those of us in business to offer a service are sometimes challenged by those requiring the service. “I can get it cheaper”, they tell you. My previous post on setting rates addresses this question in excruciating detail for the voice-over business (without going into much numerical detail) and might serve as a resource for those [...]

Most of my colleagues in the business of voice-over find setting rates to be the most difficult part of their job. I would like to examine this issue in some detail, and I must warn you this is a long post – the longest one I’ve ever written. Some of the reasons why it is [...]

I just got word from Lorie Conway this morning that her film Forgotten Ellis Island has been selected by PBS “as a prime-time national special for late spring or early summer broadcast”. Elliott Gould narrated this documentary, and Bruce Miles, Drew Hadwal and I provided historical voices. You can read more about the film and [...]

I have a cute little voice-over studio. It’s not beautiful, but it’s functional, the equipment is good, and it’s pretty darn convenient. And although it isn’t absolutely soundproof, it’s quiet. Well, it wasn’t always quiet. In fact, until a few hours ago, I had a noise problem that I found very troubling. Most people didn’t [...]