Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Make Money As A Voice Talent? Why not?
It is possible to make money as a voice talent! Many people have a great speaking voice just naturally. Some can do character voices..that is, they can annimate their voice to sound like different, but believable character. I owned a professional recording studio for 20+ years, and saw many people work very little to make lots of money just standing in front of a microphone.
Here is one case that even amazed me… We had a friend renting space in our building to book bands. He had been a drummer/singer for years, so he did have some experience being in front of a microphone.
We were working with J Walter Thompson ad agency on some Ford radio and TV commercials at the time, and they needed a voice to put on a musical demo we had just recorded. We asked “Jim” if he would record a demo voice over so they could present the music to the dealer group, to which he replied, “sure, why not?”
To try making a long story short, the dealer group liked his natural, believable voice so much, that he was hired to be the voice talent for the whole campaign, which ran several months! It also had to be a union job, so he got paid scale, which was as much as other professional voice talents were making.
Jim would go to the mailbox everyday just to see how much money would come in the mail! He must have made about $25,000 over the next few months, for very little work. Not bad!
You could be the next discovery in the voice over business…you just never know.
Stay tuned and I’ll give you a few tips on how to get started…
