8 Strategies To Vet Reputable Coaching & Demo Production
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by Paul Schmidt
2M ago
  Well, now we've got a problem. At the time we're filming this, there are allegations against a specific coach and demo producer that are not pretty. Now, the concerning part about these allegations is that they're being made against someone who formerly had a sterling reputation in this business, a very highly accomplished voice actor and a trusted coach and demo producer. That's scary and quite frankly, sad stuff. And it's nightmare fuel for new or newer voice actors who are trying to figure out who in the hell can I trust in this business? How do I know? How do I go about finding out ..read more
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Wanna Grow Your Voice Over Business? CUT the Crap!
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by Paul Schmidt
3M ago
  This time of year, early January, everybody's fired up about their New Year's resolutions. I hate them, but I understand them. Typically, New Year's resolutions mean setting new goals, which means breaking those down into new added behaviors. It's the psychology of achieving more by doing more and I myself subscribed to it for a very long time. What we don't talk about is the fact that still, even in this new year, there are still only 24 hours in a day and 7 days a week. But every year, we add all these new behaviors to the days and weeks that are already crammed full with existing beh ..read more
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Voice Actors’ Top 5 Biggest Social Media Mistakes
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by Paul Schmidt
3M ago
  If you're like most voice actors, you feel an immense amount of pressure to post on social media, hoping to use that as a business development strategy, which takes a ton of time and effort and sweat and stress. You’ve got to plan it, conceive it, design it, produce it, and schedule it. Oh my God. No wonder you're stressed out. But here's the thing. You're probably going to all this trouble for virtually nothing in return in terms of revenue produced from all that time and sweat and stress and everything else. The fact is, every voice actor I know is all over social media, and most voic ..read more
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Your 6-Point Plan to ROCK VOICE OVER and LIFE in 2024
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by Paul Schmidt
3M ago
  You have a choice. You can decide right now that you're going to keep doing what you've been doing and keep getting what you've been getting. Or, you can decide right now that you're done with excuses, done with kidding yourself, and done with half-assing your career and your life. I said in last week's episode, there are two kinds of people in the world: those that make excuses and those that make it happen. And the fact of the matter is, you can't make it happen without a plan. Decide. Right now. You're either going to rock the coming year or it's going to rock you. You already know w ..read more
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GRATEFUL for AI?!? SURELY YOU MUST BE JOKING!
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by Paul Schmidt
4M ago
  I'm usually not like this, but I've been getting a little discouraged lately about the voiceover business. We are hearing stories of lots of people potentially being allegedly hornswoggled by a particular coach. People are making up Zoom calls with celebrities that probably didn't happen. There's La Niña and war and unrest on the world stage and I'm feeling it all heavier in a way that I probably haven't since maybe 2016. So when that happens, one of the best strategies I've found to manage it myself is to go hard in the paint on my gratitude practice. Consistently practicing gratitude ..read more
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The Rise and FALL of VOICES and VOICE123
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by Paul Schmidt
5M ago
  Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to remember Voices and Voice123. Both had lives with so much promise, yet cut so short. We had such hopes for you. But as The Good Book says, “Yay, though I walked through the shadow of the valley of the pay to plays, I shall fear no evil, for the GVAA Rate Guide is with me. Lord, we pray for these souls, Voices and Voice123, that though they be twisted and tortured by the evil of publicly traded corporations, that you may deliver them, Lord, once again into the kingdom of private ownership. Pray with me, brothers and sisters. Lay your hands on ..read more
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A Voice Over MASS EXODUS? Will 80% of Voice Actors Be OUT?
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by Paul Schmidt
5M ago
  So Music Radio Creative’s Izabela Russell recently said on their YouTube channel that she sees a mass revolution coming to the voice over industry. Here's a clip: “I think that moving forward, we are going to have an enormous exodus of voice over artist people, people who want to be voice over artists. And we are going to see only the top remain because the sad reality is, as the sample you've played is good enough for most of the kind of, you know, budget friendly projects and those really incredible voice artists will be still used perhaps for more premium projects, but the selection ..read more
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The 5 Biggest LIES in Voice Over & the REAL TRUTHS BEHIND THEM
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by Paul Schmidt
5M ago
  One of the biggest problems that folks new to the business coming into voiceover run into as new voice actors is how to separate, how to sort out the good information from the bad. In fact, it's one reason I started this channel because there is a substantial amount of factually incorrect garbage going on in our business that's floating around out there and the only way to fight that is with real facts and honest truth. Now, is truth in the eye of the beholder. Largely, yes. But again, there's stuff out there that is just factually garbage and has to be called out as such. So, today we ..read more
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David Ciccarelli OUT! And Why That’s BAD for Voice Actors
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by Paul Schmidt
6M ago
  Two weeks ago, I said that Voices was getting desperate and ten days later they ousted their CEO, David Ciccarelli. I hate to say I told you so, but… Earlier this week, Voices made the following announcement: Dear Valued Customers and Friends, Today, we share some bittersweet news as we bid farewell to a cherished member of our team, David, who has been at the helm of Voices.com, Inc. as its chief executive officer for the past 18 years. Since founding Voices.com, David and his wife Stephanie have been instrumental in nurturing and growing the community and building the marketplace. His ..read more
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Is Voice Over Work DRYING UP?!? THE 6 BIG CAUSES
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by Paul Schmidt
6M ago
  As I touched on in my last video, 2023 has been a slow year for voiceover. In fact, this might be the first year in the 21st century that we can honestly say that voiceover work has not… available work… has not grown year over year. There's no hard data that I know of in the voiceover industry that shows the exact amount of available work. But I talked to a lot of people in this business and pretty much everybody agrees it's been a down year. This has also been the year that A.I. has exploded onto the scene. This time last year, absolutely no one had heard of ChatGPT. That's because it ..read more
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