Book trailers: with narration or without?

When I was hired to narrate my first book trailer earlier this year, I needed some points of reference so I looked up and down the web for examples. Most of what I found were pretty well-crafted videos with no narration. They had music, they had titling, and they certainly made me want to read [...]

Training solutions on a budget

I read an interesting article this evening called Outrageously Simple Training Management Software Solutions  reprinted from an ezine article.  It was a step-by-step do-it-yourself guide to creating training modules for employees, on a budget.  My favorite part of this article?  The recommendation to hire professional voice talent and NOT to try to do the VO on your [...]

Craig Ferguson is “Gobber” in How to Train Your Dragon

Read about it in ‘Dragon’ directors deliver fast makeover.

Voice talent for “Prison Break” revealed

The voice talent for dSonic‘s Prison Break: The Conspiracy – Robert Knepper plays T-Bag in the video game released today by Deep Silver, as reported at Electronic Theatre.

Business Expo 102

Three years ago I tried an experiment and registered to exhibit at my Chamber of Commerce’s annual TableTop Expo.  Field tests have been completed – not much came of it.  It took me three years to recover but I decided to try again.  The expo took place yesterday and over 700 people attended.  My table was in [...]

My voice-over team

As Pat Fraley often says, experience is the slowest teacher.  Rather than spend who knows how much time trying to become an expert in blog migration troubleshooting, I decided I needed to add someone to my business team to help me clean up the aftermath of my migration from Blogger to WordPress.  So I posted a [...]

Spring Migration

All around me are the encouraging signs of spring: temperatures are rising, skunk cabbage is up, the red-winged blackbirds have been back for weeks, hawks are on the move, and the crocuses have really spit on their hands and got down to it. So I’ve been getting restless, and I finally seized the moment and [...]

Why No Business Should Be Involved In Online Social Networking

Provocative eh? See what marketing consultant Marc Goldman has to say about it at Biznik.