Remember the Saturday Night Live skit from way back when which featured Mark and Wendy Whiner? Anything and everything they experienced in life they had to complain about it, non stop. In the entertainment industry, no one wants to hear a whiner. If you’ve got complaints, work it out, don’t go to your agent, cd, […]
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Why You Do Not Need an Exclusive Agent or Manager
In the big, fabulous world of the entertainment industry, there are many traps that can limit a talent’s growth and experience by deceitful practices all around. Who can you trust? Who shouldn’t you trust? Let’s chat today about the following topics: Agents Agents that Double Dip Managers Pay to Play site Agent A talent agent […]
The Only Way to get Paid a Higher Rate is to not Accept Low Rate Jobs
Talent of all genres have struggled for years to get better paying rates for jobs. Unfortunately the rates have been sliding downward for some time. What can we do to fix them? You as the people who get paid for the jobs need to put your foot down and state you will only work the […]
Why you need Source Connect Standard and Why Sometimes that’s not Enough
If you are a professional voice over talent residing in the USA, you should already have a paid Source Connect Standard or Pro account. Source Connect is a software that connects you to any other client or production house that uses the same software. When it is used, you sound like you are in the […]
Renewals of Contracts in the Entertainment Industry
In the entertainment industry, there’s always work to do. In today’s world it’s more complicated than ever before to do the work of an entertainer/actor/model/voice talent due to our pandemic. Fortunately there are a few potential fringe benefits if you worked a job for a video or print production and the client was pleased with […]
Why Coaching is Necessary to be a Success in the Voice Over Industry
If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it several hundred times, “Hiya, yeah, I am ready to be a voice over talent. My wife says my voice is really good and my mom agrees. I am ready to work.” It’s a rarity for any type of talent to skyrocket to fame based on compliments from […]