The Slack Jaw Voice Over - Episode 12 - Practice

Today we are talking about practice and how important it is.  This seems like an obvious thing but I still wanted to spend some time on it.  While it may same like an obvious thing it isn't the easiest thing to do on a regular basis. I go over some ideas on the best ways to practice, at least for me, and some other ideas you may not have thought about.

I also talk about a side benefit of practice that can be overlooked by the beginner.  When you practice you have COMPLETE freedom to try anything.  There is no pressure to make a voice match what some external entity is requesting.  You get to do what you want.  Any, it helps you create new and different voices that you may not have come up with prior to this.

So instead of reciting one of the MANY worn out sayings about practice.  I'm just going to say, PRACTICE!  It will only do good things for you.

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The Slack Jaw Voice Over - Episode 11 - Voice Over Marketplace Round Up

Hello all.  Here is a short one for today.  I just wanted to do a quick backtrack over the marketplaces I spoke about in earlier episodes since I had learned some things since we last spoke about them.

I'm really excited about the New Year as I have a lot of things planned and I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoy putting them out there for you.

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The Slack Jaw Voice Over Episode 10 - Fiverr and Elance

In todays episode I talk about Fiverr and Elance.  These are two "general" online marketplaces for all kinds of stuff.  Like the other episodes I go into how they work, the general nuts a bolts, and then talk about what I like and don't like.  Pretty standard.

You may notice there is a bit of a shift in production value here.  Mainly that I omitted, mostly, the words "um" and "uh" from my vocabulary.  I have made some changes because what I was doing before, while it "got the job done" I wasn't very happy with the finished product.  So I'm trying new things here.  In a couple of episodes I plan on doing a "how I do this podcast" episode.  It will be fun!

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Podfading...

Hello all.  Yes, yes, I have been podfading.  For those of you who do not know, "podfading" is the term for those of us creators who start a podcast, are good about keeping it going for a few months, then fade into oblivion never to be heard from again.  And, yes, it seems I was starting to do that.  BUT I plan on making a comeback.  I will NOT attach it to a resolution that I will get better at doing podcasts and blog posts and auditioning and eating right and being more productive and being a better person and calling my mother more and blah blah blah blah.  I refuse to attach it to a resolution because I actually want to do it.  So I just am going to do it.  Nike would be proud.

Anyway, there may be some retooling on the docket for this though.  And that will be coming very soon.  Since the holidays are now behind us, I can start focusing on what matters.

At least until my kid is born.  Oh yeah, didn't mention that.  I'm going to be a daddy.  So sometime in May or June I will have a little spawn running around.  So you can imagine how fast my head is spinning.

That's all for today.  A podcast is coming soon.  As always, email me with questions or comments.  Thanks again for listening/reading.  Take Care!

The Slack Jaw Voice Over - Episode 9 - Bodalgo

Hello everyone and I hope you had a great Thanksgiving.  We had a bit of an unscheduled break there due a myriad of reasons, many of which I get into in the podcast.

Not least of which was some technical issues that lost me a couple of podcast episodes.  (That's why I didn't post when I said I was going to go.  My computer decided to eat them.)

Anyway, we're back and I hope to get another episode out in a few days.  Playing catch up.

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More podcasting goodness is coming...

Just so you guys are aware, there are more episodes in the works.  Things have been a tad busy lately and right around the time I decide I'm going to do more post work on the episodes is right around the time my (new!) clients start coming out of the woodwork.  So once everything settles a little I will post the episodes I have.  I'm guess one will go up sometime this weekend and then another will be up the middle of next week.  

As always, drop me a line if you have any questions.  Thanks for stopping by!

The Slack Jaw Voice Over - Episode 8 - Voicebunny

Hello again.  We continue our series of reviews of online voice over marketplaces.  Today we discuss Voicebunny.com.  Voicebunny is the little brother of Voice123.com.  It is definitely very different from other systems I've used.

I'll let the podcast speak for itself on that one.

One thing I did want to mention that is an "update" to a previous review.  (I'll post this on that review as well.)  In the Voices.com review I spoke a lot about the "like" feature on that system.  I had made the assumption, due to the pattern I saw, that clients would use the like function to shortlist the talents and then select the one they wanted.  I went further and assumed all clients did this.  This is not true.  Apparently only about half to a third of Voices.com clients use the like function in that way.  I had just had all the clients who gave me jobs to fall into that group.  So I assumed they all did.  Since that time I have spoken with other voice over talents in addition to being awarded some jobs without being "liked" first.  I just wanted you to be aware so you didn't get worried if you weren't being liked.  (Like I was.)

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