If anyone ever tells you voice over is a dying medium, there’s too much competition and all the good jobs are already taken, you have my permission to laugh in their face and call them an idiot. Seriously. They have no idea what they’re talking about. Just look at the audio book niche, for example….
So, you’re getting ready to start a new business, your voice over business. Congratulations! You need business cards, because that’s what everyone does when they start a business, and a nifty logo because you gotta’ have one of those too, right? How ’bout slapping that logo on some pens, maybe a case of branded coffee…
They stared at me in shocked amazement when I said this at my Mic To Money™ Voice Over Bootcamp last weekend. But it’s one of the most valuable business-building secrets I learned from my marketing mentor Dan Kennedy so I couldn’t hold back. This secret is second nature to successful business owners outside the voice…
Granny Smith apples, apple cider vinegar, even Diet Coke. These are just a few of the fixes voice talent have sworn by to eliminate the sticky, noisy saliva that can ruin an otherwise perfect recording. They’ve lugged their “mouth noise First Aid kit” from studio to studio, reluctantly said no to the pizza and bagels…
If you’ve been playing around with a microphone listening to the sound of your voice, you might feel that something’s not quite right with the way you’re reading the script. Your recorded voice doesn’t sound at all like the voice you thought you were hearing inside your head and this can be quite disconcerting. For…