How to train your voice
The best way to train your voice skills is by simply recording your voice. Having someone else evaluate your voice is also another way to go.
Where it Really Pays to Play
Traditional P2P sites are failing because they don’t deliver the goods, with thousands of talents competing in hundreds of auditions for a meager result. The outcome for many professionals is frustration, wasted efforts and squandered money. So it’s clear that a new disruptive approach is needed where it really pays to play. This is the …
Bridging the gap between clients and VO talents
Bringing the voice over artist and client together is one of the main objectives of DirectVoices. No filters between them, no brokers, no intermediaries. The Internet voiceover market is now mature enough to allow this one-on-one contact. We know that forging closer relationships between these two parties will ultimately lead to greater understanding, enhanced trust …
VO etiquette for VO actors
Voice over actors, remember these 6 etiquette tips before you step inside another recording studio!
How to talk with a deeper voice
If you get in the habit of speaking with a relaxed tone your deeper voice will come out automatically
Display your basic VO prices and be proud of them!
Display your basic VO prices and be proud of them! That’s the advice DirectVoices would like to give to voice over talents. To be taken seriously you have to answer the question everybody asks in any transaction, how much does this service cost?. Don’t get nervous about it. Rates are not written in stone, you …
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Bringing VO Talent and Clients Together
If there was a way that a voice over artist could liaise directly with a voice over client without the need for an agency or intermediary wouldn’t that be a good thing? Bringing VO talent and clients together, really? Yes, of course it would I hear you cry! Consider this: the whole transition would be …
Handling Rejection in VOs
Many people in the VO business will say that you have to be ‘thick-skinned’ to survive in this industry. You will need to be able to handle rejection because you are going to get a lot of it! It’s hard to argue with that. Most voice over artists will have to deal with multiple rejections …
The Perfect Client Scenario
The client has contacted you because they like your work and they want to engage your services. This is the best scenario for you as an independent voice talent. You know you have arrived in the VO industry when this happens! This client has contacted you direct without having to be actively marketed to and …
Derek Chappell, the “Voice of your Business”
Derek Chappell started his voicing career at a very young age as announcer at a FM radio station in Kansas City. His legal perspective is a bonus when it comes to writing his blog “The Voice of your Business”.