The Truth About Why Voiceover Marketing Fails

Voiceover Marketing Introduction As a voice actor, I know marketing is essential to growing my business and getting more clients. However, marketing is far from the magical solution many believe it to be. Inspired by the Forbes article “Marketing Does Not Work: The Truth,” I want to share insights on why voiceover marketing campaigns often […]

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Why are you so optimistic about the new year?

What do you need and want in your future? Start planting those seeds today. What you plant today is most likely what you’ll have in the future.

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How to Get a Job Doing Voice Over Work: Email Marketing

Voice actors reach out to me all the time and ask, “How do I book more voice over work?”. No surprises here. After you get started, learn all you can skill-wise, the next logical step is to wonder how to get a job doing voice over work. If you look around my blog you’ll find […]

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How to Do Voice Over Work Part-Time

How do I do voice over work part-time? This is one of the questions I receive by email almost everyday. The folks asking this question either only want to do Voice over as a side-hustle or they want to dip their toes in the water to see if eventually going full time is a viable option. […]

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How to prepare for directed voice over session

Learn the various methods of doing a directed voice over session remotely or from your home.

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Voiceover Communities and Forums

Voiceover Forums and Communities When you’re holed up in your closet recording, you can’t just walk down the hall and knock on your co-worker’s cubicle to ask a question. So you’ve got to find your own virtual water cooler to talk shop. You’ll get familiar with how the business of voice over works and what […]

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Win more voice over auditions – Four tips with Alyson Steel

Win more voice over auditions – Four tips with Alyson Steel Tip 1) Audition specs and attention to detail So the first thing you have to do is read what you get—from the email, from your agent, or production house. Read it thoroughly because many of the times it’s going to be a long email […]

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Breaking into Voice Over Work: How Podcasting Jumpstarted My Career

What if there was a button you could push that would instantly transport you to a dinner table surrounded by your best friends in the world? What if that same button could help you be a better cook and learn a new language? And what if that button could help you stay in shape and […]

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How to Win Voiceover Jobs

Voiceover is a performance-based profession, which tends to draw people who (surprise, surprise) like to perform. But the real surprise is that many people who are very talented at performing, can’t cut it in voiceover. This is because it takes more than being able to do voices well. Winning voice over jobs or getting premium […]

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Voiceover Equipment and Resource Guide

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Do Better Voice Over Work by Developing This One Skill

You probably know that it requires more than a good voice to do well as a voice actor. You need to be a good business person. You’ll need to know how  to market your voice over business to the right clients. You need to have acting skills. You have to know enough about recording to […]

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Are You “All In”?

You’re teetering on the fence. Wondering if this business can work for you. Maybe you’ve booked a voiceover job here and there, you loved it, and you just want to be able to do more. Or you’ve never booked a job, but you know this is something you can do. On the left side of the […]

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What to do on slow days

This past week wasn’t one of my booking-est. I feel fortunate that the first quarter of the year as a whole has been great. But in this business, there are inevitably slow days. And sometimes… slow weeks.Depending on where you are in your business, slow times will mean something different for you.If you’re just in […]

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Voiceover Stories: Diana Birdsall

One of the most common questions I get asked about voice over is How do I get started? It seems like there should be a simple answer like, “Buy a microphone and start auditioning.” But anyone who has pursued voice over for any length of time will tell you it’s not that simple. So why is […]

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Doing Voiceover When You’re Busy

#reallife confession: These past two weeks have been challenging. Work has been steady, and I’m so grateful! But sometimes the everyday things are enough to tip the scales on the stress-o-meter. And my scale hath been tipped. Probably the thing that’s had the biggest impact is that Ruby is teething. And she’s real serious about it! […]

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One key to level up your voiceover game in 2018

Ready to level up your #voiceover business game in 2018? Read this blog post where I share one of the keys that led to some of my biggest projects last year! Click to Tweet Wow. Today is officially the start of 2018! And before we jump into this week’s content, let me take a second […]

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The voiceover “flow”: from hitting record to getting paid

If you mow lawns for a living, it’s probably pretty clear how your business operates. You do some marketing, you buy the equipment you’ll need, you get some clients, mow their lawns, and collect your money from the clients. Obviously, this is an over-simplified business plan. But I think it’s safe to say that, while […]

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Voice Actors: Why You Should Always Give 100 Percent

“I don’t turn on my microphone for less than $250,” Flo the Pro said. “That sounds nice,” thought Newbie Ned. “But right now I make $18 an hour at my day job. So anything more than that is an upgrade for me.” As a new voice actor, it’s hard to imagine turning down a job […]

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How to win voiceover jobs part 2: Don’t overdo it

In Part 1 of the How to Win Voiceover Jobs series, we talked about how increasing your emotional intelligence helps you be a better voice actor. Today, we’re talking about the danger of overthinking and overdoing. Becoming a successful voice actor isn’t easy, but putting unnecessary extra time and energy into auditions doesn’t always result in more […]

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Voiceover: Always Doing What You Love?

Is voiceover a dream job? I love doing voiceover. It’s my dream come true, my career match made in Heaven, the thing I would choose to do if I could do anything in the world. And at the very moment that I book an exciting new gig, or when I’m in the middle of a […]

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The voiceover spectrum, from amateur to the many levels of pro

“Oh, you’re a voice actor? Me, too!” Doesn’t this sound like the start to a beautiful relationship? I mean, how often do voice actors actually run into other voice actors in every day life? Not often. Especially if you’re in the middle of the country like I am. But what these two self-proclaimed voice actors may […]

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On joining the union

I’ll be honest. I haven’t booked the right kind of work for me to need join the union yet. I’m totally open to it, and I kind of hoped I would have gotten some crazy huge jobs that necessitated my joining by now, but that hasn’t happened. I’m still doing great in my career, though. […]

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Working on, and not in the biz

Voiceover is an amazing industry! It has allowed me to reach so many goals in a really short amount of time. I’m able to work from home (or anywhere really), spend more time with my family, and do creative work that I love. But there is an aspect of working in VO that causes me […]

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Sitting in the car, in a parking garage, with a sleeping baby

  Today, I’m at a podcasting conference (my husband and I podcast about money and marriage). Leading up to the conference, I hadn’t put a whole lot of thought into my expectations or what sessions I would want to attend. But when we got here, I got super pumped about meeting people we’ve known online […]

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