If your answer to this question is no, you are in deeeeeep trouble.

15 years ago, no one knew what the internet was. Now, if you don’t have a website and you want to do VO, you’d better get one. Your best investment for your VO career is practice/preparation. Your second best investment is good equipment. Your third best investment is a killer website.

Like we talked about last post, don’t ASPIRE to be a pro, BE a pro. To be a pro these days you MUST have a website and it must be excellent. It has to look clean, easy to navigate, content rich, and has to leave its mark on the viewer.

So how does one go about obtaining an awesome sight? I am blessed enough to be able to run 3 of my own websites (not including blogs or social stuff). What if you don’t know HTML, CSS, Flash, or Java or any of that fancy stuff? You have two options: do it yourself or have someone do it for you. I have suggestions for both.

1) Do it yourself.

By now, everyone in the known universe has heard of MySpace. What better place to start? If an 11 year old kid can change his MySpace layout, I think you can learn how. Create a MySpace page for you and your VO stuff. Add each of them as friends of the other and invite ALL of your friends (they’re all on MySpace, you just don’t know it yet). When you’re ready to make it look sweet all it takes is a simple Google search and there are THOUSANDS of profile editors that you can edit it what’s called WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). The best one is pimpmyprofile.com, it’s what I use. While you’re developing your image, studio, and website MySpace can get you by.

Not so keen on MySpace. Me either. Check out this site: Uber.com, it’s definitely one of the best free website creators in existence. It’s very… not… out there. Meaning, not a lot of people know about it, but, it’s really great. Customize that page, put your demos on there (only if they sound incredible) and slap the site on your business card.

2) Have someone do it

None of you know this, but I make websites for people. I just said that I made these, that’s a no-brainer, but I just started a website business as well. Check it out. Check out the rates. :-0 An affordable site? Absolutely. I can arrange you a site just like mine, www.yourname.com (domain) and all for around $100 a year. Good luck finding that anywhere else. Want your demos posted on the site? Not a problem! Want a blog like this one? Not a problem! One of my callings is to help other developing VO people get their feet wet and dive right in. I’d love to help you out too. Let me know if I can help.

If you enjoyed the post, leave me a comment and invite other VO people to the blog. We as VO artists go nowhere without each other! Spread the love!!

Until next time!

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