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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.

Apr 6, 2023

Do I deserve fair and reasonable, professional rates for my work? You’re either feeling deserving of fair rates or you’re not. Today we’re going to talk about why you’re not getting the rates you deserve, what to do about it, and how to identify and mitigate your own limiting beliefs.

To sum up this video, I’ve created a Rates Worthiness Flowchart. If you’d like to download it, click on the link below.

Let’s start with the question, “Do I deserve professional rates for my work?” We didn’t ask do I want professional rates. Everyone wants them. The question is do you feel you deserve pro rates?

It’s a yes or no question. You either believe you command professional rates, or you don’t. And yes is the easiest answer. If you feel you deserve pro rates, if you’ve worked for months or years with a reputable coach and you agree you provide a professional product, then quote and charge pro rates. 

The second answer, no, is trickier. 

https://paulschmidtpro.com/rates-worthiness-flowchart

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