LeVern Danely of LAD4 Creations Inc., agreed to answer a few questions about his experience at Voices.com and how his company used the service to find, select and hire talent.

Recently LeVern completed a project at Voices.com and hired Lora Cain . Read more on LAD4 Creations’ hiring experience.

How has Voices.com helped you with your project needs?

Voices.com has been an incredible resource for us in producing high quality professional videos. Many of our clients want the look, feel, and sound of a high-end professional video, and we have found that professional narration is often the key to achieving that success. Realizing this, we work closely with our clients to create voice-over scripts that highlight the major points of their video. Once the scripts are completed we look to Voices.com and their listed talent to provide sample reads.

How did you select the talent?

The large pool of talent at voices.com not only provides us with dozens of unique voices to choose from it also saves us time and money by quickly providing high quality downloadable samples to share with our clients. Our clients appreciate the opportunity to assist in the selection process to select a voice that will best enhance their video production. For this project we hired Lora Cain. They also benefit from the cost savings we pass on to them by not having to bill for traditional studio time and talent.

What challenges did you face using the Voices.com system to find talent?

We enjoy working with Voices.com because we often receive production requests with very tight schedules and searching for voice talents that will meet specific gender, speech pace, and voice style can be time consuming, not to mention nerve racking if the talent has trouble delivering the voice-over in a high quality format we can use. Voices.com takes care of that for us, so we can focus on what we do best. We also take advantage of the SurePay process to ensure that we receive the completed work prior to the resource receiving our deposit.

How would you describe your overall experience with the site?

Voices.com has also helped us be good stewards to our church. Our company volunteered to produce a short video to show at our church to help generate support for a good cause. The video was well received, but due to our lack of time and budget we completed the voice-over in-house. A month later we were informed that the same video would be shown at a major fundraising event in front of 1000+ business people. We couldn’t help but think about the quality of our in-house voice-over and knew we needed to change it overnight. That’s actually when we discovered Voices.com, they not only provided extremely quick responses, and the work was high-quality and fit within a budget that we felt comfortable donating to the cause. The result was an excellent video shown before a very impressed audience narrated by Lora Cain.

LAD4 Creations will definitely continue to use Voices.com in future projects. We have had continued great service and have found several voice talents that we will use over and over in our work. We can’t say enough about our experiences with Voices.com and highly recommend them to any business looking for professional voice-over work.

About the Client

Through my years of experience as a freelance videographer and video editor, I’ve come to understand what defines excellence in a video production company: Extra attention to detail. A flexible, “outside the box” approach. Not to mention personal service that’s timely, courteous and focused solely on the clients’ needs.

Named in honor of my son, LeVern A. Danley IV, LAD4 Creations, Inc. was built upon a single vision: to provide truly exceptional and affordable professional video services to businesses, legal institutions, non-profit organizations and individuals. Today, our company is widely respected as one of the premier video production firms in the Chicago area.

“How Can We Go That Extra Mile?”

Every one of our projects begins with this question. Not a company to rest on our laurels, LAD4 Creations is continually looking for ways to enhance the value of our services. From corporate events to courtroom depositions, we are committed to executing each production with unsurpassed quality, creativity and innovation. Whether your video project is large or small, you can be confident that the end result will engage your audience … and exceed your every expectation.

LeVern A. Danley III, CCVS
Founder, Certified Court Video Specialist
http://www.lad4creations.com

Project Details

Project ID: 8474
Project Title: Voice over for Not for Profit Video
Category: Business Presentations and Corporate Videos
Language: English
Project Close Date: April 2, 2008
Selected Talent: Lora Cain

Tami Joca of Onsite Property Manager agreed to answer a few questions about her experience at Voices.com and how she and her company used the service to find, select and hire talent.

Recently Tami completed a project at Voices.com and hired Janice Downes. Read more on Tami’s hiring experience.

How has Voices.com helped you with your project needs?

Our Company needed a voice over done for our answering system. We tried several attempts at doing this ourselves but the sound was not up to par. While surfing the net the owner of the company found Voices.com. I set up a profile and posted the job and within minutes our company had several audition tapes to listen to.

How did you select the talent?

Our team sat down and listened to several of the audition submissions. But one voice stood out from the rest it was Janice (JP) Downes her voice had just the right tone and pitch we were looking for. We made the offer via Voices.com to Janice and she accepted. Janice sent us the MP3 files from our scripts we paid her using SurePay (which is very safe and secure) and she sent the files to us for our system.

What challenges did you face using the Voices.com system to find talent?

We were on a very tight deadline in finding the talent.

We were looking for:

• Professionalism
• Quick Turnaround
• English
• MP3 format

Using Voices.com it made this project simple and easy. We were able to post a job, find the right talent, submit payment via SurePay which was safe and secure, and received our MP3’s all in a matter of two days!

We received so many responses and I would have loved to thank every individual that submitted an audition. Janice (JP) Downes was the professional voice we were looking for.

How would you describe your overall experience with the site?

We recommend Voices.com to anyone that needs a voice talent. Janice was so professional and so wonderful to deal with that we decided when we had another voice project to hire her again.

Now with Voices.com there is a feature that allows you to add a certain talent to your favorites and gives you the ability to post a job only to that person. I was able to post and send a job only to Janice and she responded the same day. This was perfect. Voices.com has been an overall great experience for us and we will use them when we are searching for voice talent.

About the Client

Ideal Applications is a software development company producing industry specific web based applications for today's technology needs. Recent projects include http://TakingApps.com and http://OnSitePropertyManager.com

OnSite Property Manager

Rental property management software for landlords and property managers. Uses a Rent Roll format making it easier to learn and fun to use. Auto posts rents and late fees on the designated dates and times for each rental unit. Tracks tenant interactions and maintenance tasks to easily organize your rental properties.

Taking Apps

Taking Apps provides an inexpensive method for individuals and businesses to collect online responses and change their online Apps on the fly without the need for expensive web design or database modification. The software supports multiple users so that your staff can collectively review the responses and make online notes. Apps can even be branded with your company logo and directly linked from your corporate website

Project Details

Project ID: 8707
Project Title: Ideal Applications
Category: Telephone System Recordings, Voicemail and On-Hold
Language: English (North American)
Project Close Date: April 11, 2008
Selected Talent: Janice (JP) Downes

Mike Chalmers of Smartsettle agreed to answer a few questions about his experience at Voices.com and how they’ve used the service to find, select and hire talent for their voiceover needs.

Recently Mike completed a project at Voices.com and hired Nick Summers. Read more on Mike’s hiring experience.

How has Voices.com helped you with your project needs?

After hearing samples from the directory, Smartsettle (www.smartsettle.com) was confident Voices.com had a quality product and decided to review the selection process and tools provided by the system.

How did you select the talent?

After posting a job, the resulting proposals began to arrive, and some in under an hour. It became clear that finding a suitable voice would not be the challenge, but rather, narrowing down the selection. In the end, Nick Summers was chosen.

What challenges did you face using the Voices.com system to find talent?

• Deadline given for proposals was 48 hours
• Project implementation date was 1 to 2 weeks (required audio files within 1 week)
• Language: English (requirement to be suitable for Canada, USA and Internationally
• Male or Female voice (in the end it was narrowed down to one male and one female voice)

How would you describe your overall experience with the site?

So many proposals were received, that our team was able not only to select for the current project--our telephony system--but was inspired to think about future projects including video tutorials for our software systems.

Smartsettle has engineered the world's most advanced negotiation system, utilizing a patented multi-issue, multi-party platform to solve problems, from simple small claims or insurance cases to complex international conflicts. As such, we must present clear instruction using clear audio and visual tools to get our message across. Utilizing professional voice talent was seen as a necessary component to the success of these initiatives.

Voices.com fulfilled our initial requirements for hiring voice talent, within days of registering our company for the service. We were satisfied with the selection, and the winning candidate Nick Summers followed through with a professional product, edited to our requirements and delivered with time to spare.

About the Client

Smartsettle is a leading provider of eNegotiation technology and recently presented at the 2008 International Forum on Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) in Victoria, BC. Delegates from around the world presented on the need for technology-based dispute resolution systems for a rapidly changing world, where conflicts are on the rise. Smartsettle can also be applied across business sectors for use in mergers and acquisitions, supply chain agreements, employee contracts and other areas.

Most recently, with the release of the iPhone, Smartsettle announced that their Smartsettle One software is soon to be available on the new device. Read the Press Release.

Company URL: http://www.smartsettle.com

Project Details

Project ID: 8753
Project Title: Advanced software VoIP prompts
Category: Telephone System Recordings, Voicemail and On-Hold
Language: English
Project Close Date: April 24, 2008
Selected Talent: Nick Summers

Hi Stephanie,

Just a quick note of thanks! I just finished a quick pickup session with Slate Post Production of Dublin, Ireland and all I can say is that they were fabulous to work with!

They had originally posted for two different characters, which I had only auditioned for one of. To my surprise--and delight--they decided to use my character to voice both spots!

Thanks in part to Voices.com, my voice will be aired for the Bagel Factory throughout Ireland--yea!

Thanks for all that you do! Keep up the great work!

Best Regards,
Kelly Klemolin
www.kellyklemolin.com

I've just completed an audiobook project for the company SPEAKING VOLUMES after auditioning for it on Voices.com!

I had the opportunity to narrate and bring to life the fictional character Michael Tree, a female detective.

The book, DEADLY BELOVED, written by renowned author, MAX ALLAN COLLINS, takes you on an action packed adventure with this gritty, gutsy and sometimes sexy female P.I. in search of her husband's killer!

As a female voice actor who's been in this business for 25 years plus it's great to have had the opportunity to take on such a colorful, strong female role.

I certainly hope people have as much fun listening to this thriller... as I had narrating it!

Thanks VOICES.COM!

Kristi Stewart

We've selected Jyl Woolfolk and Jessica Wachsman.

Thank you,

Thomas Graham
Frames & Pixels, Inc.

Great site!

Quickly helped us to resolve a problem with a voiceover.

Thanks,

Guillermo Weyland
DIL Brands

Jeff Cale, a freelance musician agreed to answer a few questions about his experience at Voices.com and how he used the service to find, select and hire talent.
Recently Jeff completed a project at Voices.com and hired September Day Leach. Read more on Jeff’s hiring experience.

How has Voices.com helped you with your project needs?

I discovered Voices.com and posted a job. I received more than 20 responses, all of which had auditions I could listen to instantly online.

I had been unable to hire good talent through other means, but voices.com provided an easy and fast way to select excellent professional talent. And my hired talent, September Day Leach, has been extremely professional, has a tier one performance, and had my satisfaction as her ultimate goal- and she achieved it with ease. I had received plenty responses and having so many to choose from helped because while some were very good, others were plainly not what I was looking for.

How did you select the talent?

I needed a young, attractive and beautiful voice for spoken statements in the music, and I found September at Voices.com, the need was filled and still is!

Some had recorded some of my script for the audition. I listened to the auditions and selected September Day Leach, who had the perfect voice and performance. It's easy because once the job is posted; all that is left is waiting for responses and reviewing them. No searching is necessary. The responses were very quick too, I had several in less than 24 hours.

What challenges did you face using the Voices.com system to find talent?

The deadline was a month out, but I wanted to get the work done quickly and voices.com along with my hired talent made that possible. I had no trouble using the system, reviewing responses, making the deposit, or receiving the finished work through the Voices.com SurePay System.

How would you describe your overall experience with the site?

I still work with my talent (September) on a regular basis, and I plan to continue working on future projects with her for the long term. If I was seeking a different voice, I would return to Voices.com and I would recommend it to others.

About the Client

I'm a musician, and I write electronic music. I had tried to find ideal local talent, but with no success.

I write music which I hope speaks to the unfortunate, sad, conditions and frames of mind in which we sometimes unwittingly or deniably live, but I also write music that's about the things we dream about. It's also headphone candy; I use a lot of panning effects. In the end I hope its music someone can enjoy and relate to.

Project Details

Project ID: 8651
Project Title: Dark Dance Music
Category: Music Composition and Music Production
Language: English
Project Close Date: May 1, 2008
Selected Talent: September Day Leach

Landed another super client thru VOICES.COM this week for The Kennedy Space Center in Florida website!

AND I moved up to NUMBER 3 on the FAVORITES LIST!

Thank You VOICES.COM,

JOE MC MILLAN