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VO Pro: The Business of Voiceover and Voice Acting

If you’re a voice actor in the first few years of your pro career you’ll learn strategies for how to market voice over, how to grow your voice acting business, how to free yourself from voiceover pay-to-plays, how to find voice acting jobs and gigs, how to get new voiceover clients, and more.

May 30, 2024

There are Seven Deadly Sins in voice over. Things you should never do under any circumstances, and things that, if you do try to get away with them, I guarantee you it will bite you in the ass, either in the near or long term.

Some of these will seem obvious, some not as obvious, but I can tell you I’ve personally...


May 23, 2024

Voice actors are petrified of marketing their services. 

Today, we’re going to get into what those fears are, why they exist, and why they’re complete and utter B.S. 

We’ll talk about some of the misconceptions around sales and marketing your voice over business, and what sales and marketing really are at their...


May 16, 2024

The voiceover industry is experiencing significant changes due to the rise of AI and ongoing strikes. 

However, there are still opportunities for human voice actors in certain genres. 

Audiobooks, e-learning, animation/video games, and commercials are hot genres that continue to rely on human narrators. On the other...


May 13, 2024

Carin Gilfry, founder of Voice Actors of New York City and co-founder of the National Association of Voice Actors, discusses the Vocation and eVocation conferences, whether Voices is listening to voice actors, the impact of AI on the voiceover industry, and the work of NAVA in advocating for voice actors. 

She points...


May 10, 2024

To be a successful business, you have to have great clients. What are great clients? They are ones that understand the value you provide, pay you well, and send you a lot of recurring work. We’re not talking about getting one-off jobs here. Any trained monkey can do that.

That means strong relationships with great...