Paul's Review of Voices.com

The name's Albertson, Paul Albertson. I'll be with you just after I've jumped out of this helicopter and landed in the studio. Ah, that's better. Now I'm sipping a martini in my underground secret studio in the heart of Piccadilly in London's west end.

Good, so I'll just record a few chapters for the latest talking book for a publisher in the US, I'll also have look at the script for an advert in Beirut that I'm doing whilst prepping a phone script for India. Ah yes, and I must remember to send those last few lines off for that baddie in that fantasy videogame I've just done.

All of these, plus many other jobs, are all from the result of being on Voices.com, what I consider to be an excellent global voice service, and what I mean by that is, Voices.com can get your voice all over the world.

Now, one of the main reasons that I particularly like Voices.com is that it puts us, it puts the talent, in control of the auditions and the submissions rather than just having an agent and then sitting back and wondering what on earth is going on.

Before Voices.com, the old way that most people went about being a voice talent was to record a demo, send it out via CD to agents and to employers and then see what happened.

Now what happens is that you join a site, you've got your own homepage as it were, get auditions and leads sent to you, you can get different kinds of contacts, and you can send potential employers to your site either by email or by Google Ads for example, you can use it as a landing page or even you can phone them up and point them in that direction.

But what once took about 2 weeks now takes about 2 minutes, and the good thing about it is that if you're dedicated you will get the results, BUT, this is what I consider to be the ultimate secret of success, and I've already mentioned it once, and the word is GLOBAL.

Now the one thing is, I sell my voice style as the James Bond of voice talents, which is very corny, yes, but what you have to remember, on a global level, is that everyone on the globe has heard of James Bond and most people have the same image about him in their heads. So, if I call myself the James Bond of voice talents, every potential client knows what sort of voice talent I am before they've even pressed the play button. And as long as I deliver, which of course I always do, then the client is always happy.

Now, I do consider to be myself quite versatile, and well who doesn't really, I only present myself as versatile to clients who have already used me in the past. Now, if I was just in England promoting myself as the James Bond of voice over talents, then I probably wouldn't get a huge amount of response, but what's great about it on a global level is if someone in Timbuktu and they want a James Bond style voice, they just go onto Voices.com and there I am and straightaway they can send me an email or they can listen to my demo, get in contact and we can go from there.

So, it's got lots of benefits but the two main ones for me is that it puts the talent in control of actually going out there and finding the work, and it gives you leads, and it gives you auditions, and it gives you things to promote, but also what it does is it gets you out there on a global level as opposed to a local level, and as I said the trick to that as far as I'm concerned is to be as absolutely specific as possible about what you're delivering to that very, very, very large crowd.

Well, I think I've said enough on that subject now, I think the time has come to pop on pair of speedos and jump in the pool. I just hope there's not too many supermodels in there this time taking up all the space. Bye for now.