VO Tips

“Surround yourself with the best people you can find…”

-Ronald Reagan

One of the most important (if not THE most important) aspects of being a voiceover artist is networking aka PEOPLE.

How does one go about making connections that can take you places?

Here’s another P for voice over success. Not one of the top 5, but definitely a thing that everyone who does internet business should have:

Paypal.

Paypal is a service that allows you to send and receive payment without sharing your financial information with anyone. I use it on my website to take payment from clients. (See the bottom of www.voiceofmichael.com). Since I am a business member of paypal, I can take credit card payments as well. There are different levels of paypal for different users, check it out and see what level of service is best for you.

Since every voice over person I know does work remotely (and sometimes never even meets their clients face to face), how do you expect them to pay you? If you’re waiting on a check in the mail, there’s a good chance it might not show up. Cash by mail? Forget it! Western Union? That’s getting desperate. You need Paypal so you can make money on the internet. It’s very secure, probably one of the most secure sites on the net. Go to their site and sign up right now!

There are other payment services on the net, but I can’t remember them off the top of my head. Share other payment services you use in the comments.

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Taking another drink of Metamucil, I feel myself aging as I type this, but I love the gameshow The Price is Right. There’s just something about people trying to guess what two new pairs of skis cost that really entertains me.

Have you ever actually been on the other end, though? I imagine it’s pretty suspenseful and almost impossible to think while in the limelight under time constraints… wait a tick… something about this sounds very familiar.

Well, if you’ve played the voice over game before, you’ve played The Price is Right. As a matter of fact, you’ve been involved in every aspect of the game.

If you have a blog related to voice over, let me know and I will post it in my blogroll!

Great opportunity for free publicity!

Next post: 5 P’s of Voiceover Success: PRICE is COMING SOON!

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The best way to find success in the world of voiceover is to get by with a little help from our friends. That is the entire reason I started this blog. I want to take the information that I have and share it with the world. I don’t claim to be the world’s greatest voice, I am definitely not, but I feel that I have a way with relating information to people (especially the driven dreamers like myself) that can really help them out a lot.

Getting by with a little (or maybe a whole lot of help) from our friends involves reading blogs like this one and talking to other VO people about what they do and how they do it. The best way to do that is by posting to VO bulletin boards like these: