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If you land on the comment page go to welcome
and then click on audio and there will be a
photo of William and Kate – then just hit play.

Well Producers are looking for new voices, new ideas, new approaches so….work on your own new creative voices.

Here’s a little trick…

When you come up with a new voice, a new idea or delivery, record it somehow so you don’t forget it. Grab the cassette recorder, call yourself on your cell phone and leave yourself a message in the new voice…anything to keep from forgetting.

Next have a notebook to list all these new voices. Go ahead and give them a name so you can practice them till you have them locked in. Maybe your newest creation is a Squeaky Bug…

Then be ready to demonstrate them on request. When a producer asks for a voice to go along with their latest creation, then you will have a ready made list of new stuff to share.

Remember….LUCK is when Preparation and Opportunity collide. Always be prepared and maybe you will get LUCKY!

I wish more folks would use professional VOs….

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They couldn’t have chosen a better VO for this commercial, the tone and voice work perfectly to what the commercial is trying to transmit, a real man’s voice.

Its great they could bring Peter Cullen back to the Transformers world, the Optimus Prime character is deeply connected and identified with Cullen’s voice.

I like your choice of spots but I think you would be remiss if you didn’t include one of Canada’s most famous voice over talents as part of your collection of Olympic spots:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRRZf3dAU7M

Best always,
- Peter

The Simpsons have been around since Dec 17,1989!!, they have appeared on things from US postage stamps, to even a playboy cover.Watchout for the documentary “The Simpsons 20th anniversary Special in 3D”, released early this year.

I happen to be a fan of understated British comedy and thought this was quite reminiscent of some other films made with the same quirks and general wry humour.

The ironic twist of a somewhat civilized alien eating Raisin Bran is absolutely classic. Goes contrary to the brand image and makes it more accessible to people in other demographics.

Cheers,

Stephanie

I recently viewed Disney’s movie “Earth” narrated by James Earl Jones and Roy Disney was shown briefly beforehand in a tribute to Walt Disney’s dedication to capturing and sharing the natural world on film. Roy was so proud of what Disney had achieved and also where it is going.

You’ve hit it – the end of an era.

Best wishes,

Stephanie

A wonderful look back at one of the most beloved Christmas programs on the air! Great voices do endure. I’m not surprised that those classics, despite newer more advanced styles of animation, continue to hold a prime time spot on broadcast television and in our hearts.

Happy New Year to you

Stephanie

Thanks for reading, and keep the comments coming!

Cheers!

We’ll miss you, Fred!

By thy side,

John “Figaro” Norris

One of the most famous animated characters with a most distinctive voice.

My daughter also loves the Clubhouse show.

Sad news. Thanks for letting me know.

Don and now Wayne.

Thanks for the memories, Mr. Allwine!

As an English/Journalism major in college, I always view mainstream media with a critical eye, but once in a while they do actually approach things from a realistic point of view, and I’m glad that CNN recognizes what a fun and exciting profession voice acting is. With the amount of voice overs a network like that uses, I’m sure they have a real perspective on how important voice acting is to the world of media and entertainment. It’s nice to see they’re not keeping it a secret! Well done, CNN!

I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank you, your staff and all the presenters for the outstanding job everyone did at the 2009 Marketing Expo on Saturday 05/02/09.
I will tell you that my expectations for the event were set quite high prior to going to the event due to the professionalism that you and your staff have demonstrated to me over the past few weeks during my Premier Training Program. Not only did you meet my expectations, You exceeded them by leaps and bounds.
Personally my timing could not have been better to attend this event as I am in the middle of my training program and the plethora of information provided at the event was further substantiation that I chose the right company for my voice over training.
All of the presenters did such an outstanding job in delivering their respective messages in a precise, detailed, motivational, fun, and entertaining way.
I also have to say that I was very impressed on how you managed the schedule throughout the day by precisely following the agenda, which from first hand experience is no easy task with over 165 people in attendance.
The Mixer event was also a great opportunity to speak with many fellow voice actors that are in various stages of their training or careers and the information I gathered from them was invaluable, which will help me to develop an effective business plan to insure my success as a voice actor.
Please extend my sincere thanks to everyone that made this event a Huge Success.

I was already extremely motivated and passionate about your Premier Training program and if it’s possible, I have become even more excited about my career path and can’t wait to complete my demo on May 27th in Schenectady. I look forward to making the trip to Schnectady in a few weeks to meet with the staff of voice coaches and complete my demo.

Thanks again for all the many hours of hard work everyone put in to make the event such a huge success.
Keep up the great work.

Best regards,
Doug Warner

Thank you very much for doing a fabulous job with the expo! As always, it is a pleasure to visit and share our knowledge with your students, many of whom were able to teach us a thing or two as well.

Looking forward to next year

Cheers,

Stephanie Ciccarelli

If you missed it, be sure to check out some of the video clips that are up in the Voice Coaches TV section. You can access Voice Coaches TV by clicking on the logo on the VC main page. Enjoy!

Thank you thank you thank you! You and Stephanie are tremendous. It was wonderful to have you share so much with our students and we sincerely enjoyed our seemingly never-ending conversation at dinner!!
Voices.com is the most customer service and customer satisfaction driven service of it’s kind, and you, Stephanie, and your team are the reasons why.
Safe Travels!!

David and Anna

Thanks for all you do!

I just returned from a technical meeting with the engineers from the GE Theater and I’ve been assured everything is a GO! The technical side is a bit complicated as in addition to providing microphones for the speakers and the multi-person expert panels, we also have to mic the speakers and room for our own recording of the event… this includes room mics for the audience.

On top of that, we are making full use of the gigantic surround screen that the theater offers, running images, video, and text between and behind our guest speakers.

While that’s happening, the entire presentation is being filmed from HiDef cameras for future reference.

We will also run candid videos and photos on the big screen in the info-vend area just outside the theater.

Caterers want to be on location at 6:30 am, as will our tech crew and team.

On top of this, people are still trying to register!!!

Wow!

This is going to rock!

David filled you in on the hard work going in to the expo and the incredible collection of speakers we have coming, but I don’t think he got across just how excited everyone at Voice Coaches is about the event. We work with so many people day in and day out throughout the year, but many of them we never get to meet face to face. This is our chance to get out there and meet some of the people who we’ve trained, corresponded with, and networked with throughout our everyday business lives. I can tell you this: you won’t see a single Voice Coaches team member at the expo that won’t be smiling from ear to ear! Can’t wait to see YOU there!

Follow through, and believe in yourself.

I’m still working on all three, but I’m feeling good about my chances!

Onward and upward!

This article descibed me to a tee. However, I recently got out of the passengers seat and just completed my demo
session with Warren! Robin was my on-line instructor and what a wonderful time we had working together.

I know with the training and suggestions I received from these two I can, If I stay in the driver’s seat, go as far as I want to
in this new and exciting endevor.

Also just a quick note to say thanks for the way ya’ll treated my wife and I on our recent visit.

Kristen has got to be a great asset to your frim!

Bobby Chase

Best of luck to you at your new gig. You are a great guy and I hope our paths cross again in the future.

Best regards, Marc

By baking skills will miss you!

Very sorry to hear Chris has left the family, but also happy about is new gig. He recorded the heck out of my demo and was not shy about it. I often get a kick out of Chris and his willingness to help me jump my car that day, even though he was sort of freaked out by the thunderstorm and my dogs bad disposition. This guy was soaked by the time we were done, but he had a new friend in my dog Rudy.
Krissy in your front office tells me that he even went off and got a pooch of his own. I’ll look for Chris in my travels and hope he does well.

Burt W

Oh, and let me know if you come up with any more Sopranos trivia!

Mike Massa

I’ll miss his humor and knowledge, and his willingness to step up for assignments and opportunities.

Best wishes, Chris.

That being said, I’m still constantly amazed by the wealth of talent on the Voice Coaches team. As this is a new year, we have a lot of exciting new changes in store for the future!

Best of luck to you, Chris, in all your future endeavors, and I’m glad you’ll still be around part-time to keep us on our toes!

- Mike Spring
Director of communications
Voice Coaches

Thanks for the kind words!!

I am certainly proud to have a professional team but perhaps a greater asset is that we genuinely enjoy the field.

Delighted to answer any questions and we wil look forward to working with you in the future.

Best Regards!

David at Voice Coaches

These days most people we meet are actually going into our field because of the economy. I think we are coming to a time when people realize that the ability to rely on an employer for long-term income lacks certainty. When I grew up, my parents always laid out the traditional path… do well in school, get into college, get a good job, work hard, and retire.
Today however, regardless of how well you do your job or how hard you work, everything can change very quickly. In a former life I was employed by Airborne Express, a company that was on the fortune 500 list. The company was later purchased by DHL and many of my former co-workers went on to grow with that company, working very hard.
Well, last week DHL decided to “restructure” operations in the US, laying off thousands. No matter how hard these folks worked, they were at the mercy of the success and decision making power of others. All of my old friends just lost there jobs.
Where am I going with this? There has never and may never again be a better time to use any resource that you have to create a self reliant income. Whether it’s voice over, or any other entrepreneurial field, try to find a way to make it happen.

Take control of the economy by creating your own!

Thanks for commenting!

David at Voice Coaches

Very well said!

David

Paul Hernandez

This friend is a high flier. She has presence and I trust her
opinion. The icing on the cake is that my kids think this whole “acting” thing is totally ‘cool’ too and that is certainly good enough for me. If my kids think I am cool, then what else matters?

The point is we have to BELIEVE in ourselves.

Ironically, I never wanted to start my own business, but I want to do voice-overs. The training from voice coaches got me in the right mind-set and blogs such as this keep me motivated.

Today, even before I received my demo, I sank my first (paying) job for a new company on the web.

Thanks David, Robin, Mike, John, and Kirsten.

Thanks for the kind words! It was a pleasure to work with you on the training piece we did. I have to tell you that I am seeing more and more voice actors find opportunities in web based work. From product descriptions, information and education, there is a lot of opportunity there. Podcasting is also broadening. Keep up your great work and I’m sure the work will continue to LOOK FOR YOU!

Thanks again Kevin!

David at Voice Coaches

No matter what you choose to do … Voice Acting, Carpentry, Ballroom Dancing or making Jam! JUST DO IT! Funny thing is, no one tells you if you are interested in becoming a carpenter that “Eeehhh, maybe that isn’t such a good idea.” But anything in the arts … suddenly the support team around you doubts your success. Don’t doubt yourself, if you love it … DO IT!

I remember a conversation I had with a local (and successful) actress, which said she constantly received comments from her friends like: “Are you still doing that ‘Acting-thing?’” This comment upset her, since the tone, and devaluing made it seem as if it was a trite little whim or phase she was going through. And that she wanted to comment back: “Are you still doing that ‘married and kids thing’ ???” to make them aware that their comments were not supportive.

Moral: Elect your own success; don’t let the “media” dictate your reality.

Thanks so much for making time to comment!! It’s gotta be tough to find time when your busy running the most client friendly service of it’s kind! As you know, our clients LOVE voices.com!
I will say, in regards to the post, that there seems to be a divide in personality type. There are those who feel tremendously impacted by what others, like news agencies, tell them is going on in the world… and then there are those that both you and I are fortunate to work with… individuals who drive and create their own destiny!
I am not in any way saying that the economy hasn’t effected people… it’s effected members of my own family! What I am saying is that it’s sure rewarding to stare the economy in the face and take active steps to rewrite one’s own situation.
I have never experienced more people moving into our field as a way of doing this. And regardless of whether it’s voice over or anything else… I say go out and do it!
I will get you a podcast next week.
Give David our best!

David B at Voice Coaches

This is a great post. Thank you for presenting this timely topic here on your blog. As you may know, we also have an election here in Canada on October 14, 2008. I wonder what your article would sound like as an episode for Voice Over Experts… if you’d like to expand on this topic and record it, I will air it before the US election as the information is very encouraging particularly, given the current economic happenings.

Sound good?

Best wishes,

Stephanie

I had always wanted to be a voice actor. So… I have been doing it my entire adult life because I love it and I can make some extra dollars too. We are blessed to be able to act on our dreams. We can make them happen. It just requires that we, ourselves, and no one else, take the action needed to do it. American or not, you can make it happen…or have a really good time trying.

Also … if you do use one of those 500 put of date CD’s as a drink coaster, please remember that there is a hole in the center for the condensation to get through and ruin the hardwood. For best results, back with felt or cork.

There are so many options of where to begin, some that won’t include a paycheck the first time … but that build connections and contacts for the next paying job. Keep your ears open, and talk, talk, talk about it! (That is why you started this endeavor, right? To talk!)

I have to admit… I was the kind of person you were talking about. I had wanted to do VO for a long time and figured i didn’t need any training. I went straight away into a studio and made a demo. Of course then i had ABSOLUTELY no idea what to do when it came to getting work. I have done nothing with the field basically because i don’t know where to begin. Just started some web site cruising and really enjoy your site.
Had to put my two cents in and agree with what you were saying, plus i was a pretty big Dynasty fan!!

Mark

Alicia

Thank you so much for having us down to speak and for treating us to dinner. You guys have it going on! Congratulations on another successful conference. We’re proud to be part of what you are doing and look forward to the next time we get to see each other.

I also want to note that the entire Voice Coaches team is fabulous. We felt right at home and part of the family. Can’t wait to do it again

Best wishes,

Stephanie and David

I wanted to concur that the entire expo was a great event, especially the expert panel. Thank you so much for giving al of us the chance not only to learn a great deal, but to network with so many influential people in the VO business, as well as some of our fellow peers who may not have much experience. I was quite shocked at myself, when I found myself giving advice to a few other Voice Coaches students, and I’ve only just gotten my demo!

Thank you, David, and everyone with the Voice Coaches team, for such a fantastic event! I already look forward to the next one.

David Winn

P.S. Had I known that you were heading out to dinner with everyone, I would have tried to elbow my way into the group!

Yesterday at the Voice Coaches marketing seminar (a terrific event, by the way!), a question asked of the expert panes was whether it was good to add volunteer voiceover recordings to a demo. The response was an enthusiastic yes!

I do a lot of volunteer book reading and recording for an area public radio station’s reading service for the blind and print-disabled. As a follow-up to the question asked yesterday, if I were to add samples of my recorded readings to my demo, would I need to be concerned about copyright infringement?

Thanks for your time!

Best Regards!

David at Voice Coaches

Mike Lenz

Sorry you wont be with us at the event. I am confident we will have a lot of fun based on our planned guests and attendees. BTW, we are holding the event in Schenectady NY, close to our main studios. I am also sure that Voice ’08 will be tremendous. James and Penny approached me about speaking at the event, but unfortunately I have a conflict. Thanks for your comments!

Best Regards!

David at Voice Coaches

Greg

Thank you for bringing this topic up. You’ve hit the nail on the head. I agree, casting should be left to casting directors and people should not have to pay for someone to find them work.

What talent should realize right away is that there is a big difference between self-promotion as a business marketing strategy and having other people represent you in order to get work.

Never give money to someone who promises the moon. Agents should only make a commission on the work that they secure for you.

However, don’t be afraid to invest in the development or promotion of your business!

Marketing your business through advertising and promotional efforts is perfectly fine and encouraged. Drumming up business on your own is sometimes the best way to go.

Thanks David and Voice Coaches.

Best wishes,

Stephanie Ciccarelli
Voices.com

Karen

Keep Up The Interesting Stories!!
Love the web site!

Kyle

Stick with it and remember to try to get contact info and followup independently with everyone you work with. You never know where folks are going to end up.

DB

DB

Thanks for your help!

Sarah

Be Well

Jill Kelly