Talent Spotlight: Amy Deuchler
Amy started with Such A Voice towards the end of 2016, and between then and now, has made herself into a full-time audiobook narrator! Let’s get an update from Amy to see how she got here. What were you doing …
Productivity via Task Batching
Cue any random day in the first year of my voice-over business. I settled into my studio with a zest for life and a mind set on knocking out my daily “to-do list.” Because I’m a responsible, mature business owner …
Black Lives Matter
Our neighbors are taking a stand, and making it clear that the rampant racism that has proliferated throughout our country must come to an end, and that our elected officials and law enforcement must address the systemic pitfalls that ignore …
What Else Are You Up To?
Our world is…busy, to say the least. With a global pandemic still changing our daily patterns of living and worldwide protests fighting for justice, it’s easy to become exhausted or worse, apathetic. Our job as artists is to create and …
An Ode to Community
It seems a pretty likely assumption to say that we’ve all been on our own more than usual lately. Which, for a voice-over artist, is saying a lot! We’re used to being alone most days. Creating offers, submitting auditions, narrating …
Setting Daily Habits to Drive Your Voice-Over Success
“I can predict the long-term outcome of your success if you show me your daily habits.” -John Maxwell When I first started in voice-over, I did it as a part-time job on the side. I had a full-time job and …
Working Wednesday: Five Simple Principles for Productivity
You might be new to working from home, or this might be something that you’ve done for a long time. Maybe you’re someone whose day just naturally runs like clockwork and you automatically get everything done on schedule, just like …
Social Media Marketing for Voice-Over
Social media is about staying connected with your online community, and can be a powerful tool in the world of voice-over in a number of ways. It’s great for getting yourself out there and letting people know what you do, …
Talent Spotlight: Gary Crockett
Gary Crockett recorded his demo at the beginning of 2020 and has been recording some audiobook projects since then, and is working to have is VO career take off in 2020. Let’s check in with Gary and see what he …
Your Best First Impression: Starting the Marketing Conversation
“I love junk mail!”…said no one. Well, maybe if you’re gathering starter materials for a bonfire, but for the rest of us, those generic marketing ploys don’t exactly warm the heart. There are a thousand reasons why, but in the …
Working Wednesday: How to Turn an Audition into Repeat Business
Hi, I’m Robin. And this is me dubbing a cartoon at a major dubbing studio in Miami. Ahh, the glamorous VO life! The only problem was that I wanted to move to a tiny town in the mountains of Virginia …
The Periodic Check-In
As voice-over artists, we are constantly riding the wave of clients. Sometimes we’re up and busy for weeks on end, sometimes we’re floating along unaware where our next job will come from. As we talked about in last week’s Working …