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VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting

Voiceover Business Strategies That WorkThe VO Pro Podcast is the go-to show for voice actors who want to grow their voiceover business without relying on casting sites or waiting for agents to hand them work. Hosted by voice actor and business coach Paul Schmidt, this podcast delivers no-fluff, tactical advice on how to market your voiceover services, attract high-quality clients, and build a profitable VO business in a world of AI-generated voices and shifting industry standards.You’ll learn

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13:03

You DESERVE Better Voice Over Rates: Worthiness

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2023/04/06

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

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Get Paid ON TIME: Freelance Billing Practices that WORK

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2023/03/30

One of the biggest pains for freelancers and voice actors who work directly with clients is getting paid on time. It seems everyone I know has outstanding past due invoices, or worse yet, has been completely stiffed by a client. It’s rare, but it happens. Today we’re going to talk about how to manage your billing so that you minimize risk, maintain a positive relationship with your clients, and get paid on time. My policies page: https://paulschmidtvoice.com/policies _____________________________ ▶️

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17:10

Voice Over Career Suicide – AI, TTS, VO Contracts, &...

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2023/03/16

Today, we talk with Robert Sciglimpaglia, noted VO attorney and voice actor, who warns us how to avoid bad voice over contracts regarding AI, text to speech, synthetic voices, and more. We recently told the story of one voice actor who’s own voice she discovered on an AI voices website without her knowledge. Rob explains how Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Google have been building voice databases for years, how companies like Revoicer are operating legally and ethically, and most importantly, how to

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13:29

DIY Voice Over Demos – DON’T DO IT!!!

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2023/03/09

There are lots of coaches here on YouTube, one in particular, and even Voices.com who will tell you how to make your own DIY voice over demo, and I’m here to tell you in your best interest, ESPECIALLY if you’re a beginner, DO NOT make your own demo. Today, I’m going to tell you exactly why, in no uncertain terms, making your own VO demo reel is an awful idea and can significantly damage your voice over career before it even gets started. _____________________________ ▶️ Watch this video next:

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19:35

"AI STOLE My Voice!!!" - Voice Actor Remie Michelle...

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2023/03/02

One of the scariest aspects of being a voice actor in modern times is AI, artificial intelligence, synthetic voice, and text to speech. Most of the discussion has been around the question of, Well, what happens when AI steals our work? The scarier question to me is what happens when A.I. steals your voice? Joining us from Dublin is the Irish voice actor and author Remie Michelle Clarke with her story of how her voice was stolen directly by artificial intelligence and the difficulties she's had in

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27:04

VO Atlanta 2023: NEW THIS YEAR with J Michael Collins

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2023/02/23

The biggest event in voiceover is coming up. VO Atlanta 2023, new this year, March 23rd through 26th at the Hilton Atlanta Airport, the traditional venue. But this year, under the new direction of new owners J Michael and Anna Collins. Also, the 10th-Anniversary edition of VO Atlanta. I got a chance to sit down with J Michael this week and talk about the improvements, both in the creature comforts and in the actual meat of the conference, the programming and speakers, what tracks are going to be

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WOW! Voices.com NEW Rate Guide vs. GVAA

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2023/02/16

Today, we’re going to go over Voices' new rate guide and compare it to the GVAA so that you’ll know exactly the differences between the 2 guides, where exactly Voices' rates are substandard and stick around because we’ll also show you where they’re actually above standard. For years, the voice acting community has been begging Voices dot com to take solid steps to protect voice actors from unfair rates and practices on their site. And I am happy to report that they seem to be taking some steps to

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13:22

Top 7 Beginner Voice Over Marketing MISTAKES to Avoid

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2023/02/09

One of the most common marketing questions I get from voice actors is, “How do I differentiate myself? How do I set myself apart? How do I make myself different?” We’re going to start by flipping that question around and asking, “How do you not look like everyone else?” So here are 7 of the most common marketing mistakes in voice over _____________________________ ▶️ Watch this video next: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVUuUfwNTG--7SOIG9FS0huEcwX3vyUZx SUBSCRIBE:

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11:03

SHOCKING REAL CALL with an EXPLOITATIVE Voice Over...

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2023/02/02

What you are about to hear is an actual call about an exploitative practice that is too common in our business. It is a prime example of a tiny number of producers who purposefully seek out younger and/or less experienced talent and knowingly exploit them for the benefit of their own organizations. This call is shocking in its brazen self-awareness. The following is a clip of a call I recently had with a producer for a non-profit religious organization that produces and distributes video and audio

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7 Truths U MUST Know B4 You Get Started in Voice Acting

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2023/01/26

Welcome to 7 TRUTHS U MUST Know B4 You Get Started in Voice Acting. If you’re wondering how to get into voice acting, today’s video is essentially all the stuff I wish I had known when I was starting out in voice over, and the stuff that you should know even before you get into voice over. My goal and hope is that I can help you avoid some of the mistakes I made and learn some of the lessons I learned. My Dad used to tell me all the time, “Paul, you insist on learning the hard way,” meaning I didn’t

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11:03

How To Drive AMAZING Voice Over Client Experiences

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2023/01/19

How do you provide an exceptional customer experience? So good that it drives loyalty among your customers and generates repeat business? It all starts with understanding and identifying customer needs. Today, we’re going to talk about understanding customer needs at each level of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, and how it applies to the business of voice over. Voice over is, at its best, a business of service. It's not just providing a service as opposed to a product, although the product is crucial

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08:42

A Dialogue with Voice123: Can We CHANGE the P2Ps?

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2023/01/12

What if we could really change how the P2Ps work? What if we could have a real dialogue with the people that matter, the decision makers, the policy makers, at the online casting sites? What if we could make actual recommendations directly to those people at the very top of the pay 2 plays? It’s one thing to have an online monologue to someone in such a position, as we did to David Ciccarelli of Voices. But it’s another thing entirely to be able to ask questions of and make honest recommendations to

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15:33

Voice Over Conferences 2023 CALENDAR: VO Atlanta and...

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2023/01/05

So I thought the first video of the new year would be a good time to lay out the voice over conference 2023 calendar for you, including the big ones like VO Atlanta but also some smaller boutique conferences like MAVO. Now, if you’ve never been to a voiceover conference before, let’s start with the central question: Why? Why go to a voiceover conference? Why spend all the time and money, why take time out of the booth, why travel hundreds or thousands of miles? Why step out of your comfort zone and

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08:56

Voices.com CHANGES – For The Better or Worse?

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2022/12/22

In my last video, I Offended Voices.com and Here’s How, David Ciccarelli, the Founder and CEO of Voices, asked me to lay out the facts of my assertion that they put profit before talent. I laid out five facts that detail their history of disregard for transparency when it comes to fees, taking egregious cuts of project budgets, and others. The reaction was, to say the least, just nuts. Unprecedented. Here’s just some of what you had to say… _____________________________ ▶️ Watch this video next:

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09:09

I OFFENDED Voices.com. And Here’s WHY…

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2022/12/15

In my last video, My (No Gear) Voice Over Christmas Wish List, one of my wishes was this: “I wish all of the pay-to-plays were ethical, but the chief offender here, of course, is Voices.com, but they're certainly not the only ones that put profit before talent and clients. These companies control a huge amount of work globally in the voiceover business, and it's a travesty to me that rather than seeing themselves as leaders and stewards of our industry, they couldn't give a reindeer turd about

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My (No Gear) Voice Over Christmas WISH List

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2022/12/08

Christmas is right around the corner and of course this is the time of year voice actors get the steamy undies for all kinds of gear on their Voice Over Christmas Wish List – mics, interfaces, pop filters, cables, headphones, preamps, compressors, limiters, you name it, we as a group want it. But I think in this season of gratitude and giving, I’m more about a different kind of VO Christmas wish list. Sure, I love new gear like the next voice actor, but what I want for voice over is not for me. It’s

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How To Survive Losing a BIG Client: Voiceover Crisis...

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2022/12/01

Crisis management in voice over is crucial to the continuity of your business. I was seven months into my full-time voiceover career and I lost my biggest and best client, one of the ones that helped me make the leap to full-time voice over. With that phone call, 50% of my income evaporated instantly. In most cases, if you’re paying attention, you can see it coming. I was and I didn’t. Hence, I was completely freaking out. What in the hell was I gonna do? Well, here’s what I did and it will help

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09:55

How Voice Over Saved My Mental Health

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2022/11/24

I was in a dark place. I had been through a series of jobs for about a year each. I had largely failed at each one of them. I was a single Dad. I was paying my bills but just barely, living paycheck to paycheck. Near the end I was working for people I didn’t respect. I didn’t believe in the company. I wasn’t enjoying any success at that job I was sure I was going to be fired in a year. I was approaching 50 and was just thoroughly sick of working for other people, sick of doing jobs I had no passion

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09:59

Get Started in Voiceover Work: Choosing Your FIRST Coach

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2022/11/17

So, you’ve decided you want to get into voice acting and learn to do voiceovers and maybe even become a professional voice actor one day. Great! As the song says, yes, there are two paths you can go by. First, maybe you just want to make a few bucks, have some fun and maybe make voiceover a hobby. You can jump on Fiverr or Upwork and find a ton of jobs to audition for and that’s great. But if you think you might want to go pro one day, or even if you don’t know, but want to find out, don’t go the

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09:47

NEW Voices Affiliate Program: BRAZEN. RIDICULOUS....

VO Pro: The Business of Voice Over and Voice Acting ·

2022/11/10

Voices affiliate program, in a new all-time low, now has the unmitigated brazenness to ask you to refer clients, the ones you’ve not gotten from their platform, the ones you’ve worked so hard to earn in the first place, the ones you’ve developed relationships with, and leads you’ve yet to even develop into a profitable relationship - over to them. So that they can now take 25-80% of the budget from those clients and have you compete with thousands of other voice actors, and all for the

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