October 4, 2011
I Know I'm in Good Hands at Voices.com
Hi Voices Team!!!
I just wanted to thank you for this amazing service and link to the world of voice over! I joined in May this year but had to put my new career on hold until last week. During that time I trained with the amazing team from Voice Coaches and completed my demo a couple of weeks ago.
As soon as I was able to launch my career, again, I popped back on Voices.com and immediately started auditioning and listening to the PodCasts and rereading the eBooks I've purchased and BAM! I landed my first voice over gig through Voices.com. And, guess what? It was the first audition I submitted since coming back on!
That is a testament to all of you at Voices.com for all the training you give and most especially to my new skills developed and inspired by Voice Coaches.
Voices.com is an amazing resource, especially for people like me who are just starting out. I don't mean just starting out in this type of art but just starting to actually build business using my talents! The market is competitive and I know I am only in the beginning stages, but with the help of everything I've learned from VoiceCoaches.com and Voices.com I know I'm in great hands and well on my way.
Thank you all so much...I am a Voice Artist.
Fearlessly yours,
VO In His Own 'Write'
It's rare, I think, for a home-studio VO to be involved in scripting. The job was a warm-up for a top-line American stage psychologist (no names, no red faces!) who said in the audition spec if you can improve the script go ahead.
As we all know, most copy needs sub-editing and much is not truly written for voice, even when it's come from a pro agency. So, grabbing the chance, a full rewrite on the demo, with half the word count of the original!
Customer delighted. Job awarded. VO proud.
We sure get variety and challenge through Voices.com - thank you.
October 3, 2011
51 of 85 Auditions And I Got The Job!
I'm writing to share about my most recent booking through Voices.com. Specifically, I've read observations on social networking websites and reviews about how winning bookings through Voices.com "is such a numbers game, you need to submit your audition faster than any other applicants, forget about ever getting reviewed if you're not one of the first to respond..." and so on.
Now, I realize that the "Pay to Play" marketplace is not for everyone, and it is very easy to get discouraged when you see so many other talents landing jobs you "know" you should have gotten, if only you had been poised over your computer when the listing popped up, and you had the chance to beat everyone else to the audition but this really was not the case with my latest job.
I responded to an "Educational" listing by submitting my primary demo, which includes samples of my teaching and narration delivery. When the job "Closed" on the Hiring board, I was listed as submission 51 of 85. The client responded to my submission with a request for a sample reading of their text, and from that custom read, I was awarded the job.
The client shared with me that he had listened to close to 90 submissions and chose me because he liked my voice and "teaching" delivery, I had placed an emphasis on "reading to instruct," and indicated that he would like to collaborate on future educational projects!
In my experience, the Voices.com marketplace is just that - a marketplace. There is a lot of competition for the jobs that are listed, and I'm sure that many talent feel the urge that to be "first in line" is the only sure way to be awarded a job. In this case, my marketing plan of responding to a listing with a demo that was specific to the client's needs, and following up with a custom read, in a timely manner, moved me from #51 to #1!
Many thanks to the team at Voices.com for a service that puts me out in front to those who need the best of what I do - teach!
