Welcome 2021 – Let’s Move Forward With Love & Gratitude
Welcome 2021!! Let’s Move Forward With Love & Gratitude
Friends,
As 2020 comes to a close we look back on the year that was, and while 2020 has been the worst year in generations we can, and need to, look back on all the good that came from it.
COVID has allowed the world to understand that we’re all flawed. We » Continue Reading.
The Death of Non-Union Commercial VO? Rates, Respect, & Knowing Your Worth
Warning! This will be a VO rates rant, something I don’t do much of but, as one the Voiceover industry’s foremost rates experts, I feel compelled to do so.
More and more, we’ve seen Commercial VO rates plummet. The thought is that they’ve hit the bottom of the well, but just when we think that worse rates come.
We continually » Continue Reading.
Voiceover Rates
Rates in the voiceover industry are somewhat of an enigma. In days of past, Union work was the only work, agents held the keys, drove the bus, and took care of everything. Talent went to their agent to audition, got direction, then went home, wiping their hands from the “business” aspect of their job.
Enter the internet…
Once the internet » Continue Reading.
The GVAA Rate Guide & Me
While it was a great feeling, I finally got a client with my own marketing efforts, it brought a glaring problem I had into focus. What do I charge for my services?
Until then, I had always relied on my agent and online casting sites to “tell” me what the rate was. I had no knowledge of what the rate » Continue Reading.
So, How’d You Get Into Voiceover?
I get asked that question a lot. It’s no surprise, I didn’t know how to “get into” it either!
Like many, voiceover came to me later in life after falling disenchanted with the corporate world and was searching desperately for fulfillment and purpose in my work.
After losing my job, struggling to find work again, and enduring a devastating knee » Continue Reading.