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  Topic: How many auditions is your agent sending?
Mike Paul

Replies: 10
Views: 799

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2025 9:35 am   Subject: Know your market
It's so important to know your markets.

I'm with an agency in Houston, who hasn't been sending many auditions over the last three years, but prior to that they had been sending regularly. I sent th ...
  Topic: How many auditions is your agent sending?
Mike Paul

Replies: 10
Views: 799

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2025 7:06 pm   Subject: How many auditions is your agent sending?
The days I get none gives me more time to market and write... No matter how many auditions, I'm never not busy.

Did this today with great effect. Today was a slower audition day, so I spent it stre ...
  Topic: Giving voice to the voiceless
Mike Paul

Replies: 0
Views: 7535

PostForum: Research and Development   Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:02 pm   Subject: Giving voice to the voiceless
For a change: a POSITIVE use of AI and voice technologies

https://youtu.be/JeWzFWnRy20?t=2733

Fascinating segment... we live in the future.
  Topic: Raspberry Pi
Mike Paul

Replies: 1
Views: 8055

PostForum: Gear !   Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 8:46 pm   Subject: Raspberry Pi
Interesting question and, while I haven't done it, I wonder how you'd run UA Console 2.0, if you're an Apollo owner.
  Topic: Source-Connect 4
Mike Paul

Replies: 7
Views: 63778

PostForum: Gear !   Posted: Fri May 09, 2025 9:01 am   Subject: Source-Connect 4
I upgraded to the buy-in over the weekend to test it out with a friend and be prepared for any upcoming SC sessions.

Funny, Jack--I had the opposite experience testing with a VO friend - his audio ...
  Topic: Accounting: Invoices, agent commissions, and taxes
Mike Paul

Replies: 4
Views: 7377

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 12:03 pm   Subject: Accounting: Invoices, agent commissions, and taxes
Booooooo! OK.
  Topic: Accounting: Invoices, agent commissions, and taxes
Mike Paul

Replies: 4
Views: 7377

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 9:46 am   Subject: Accounting: Invoices, agent commissions, and taxes
"Hire an accountant." They all said, in silence. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  Topic: Accounting: Invoices, agent commissions, and taxes
Mike Paul

Replies: 4
Views: 7377

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2025 1:33 pm   Subject: Accounting: Invoices, agent commissions, and taxes
Hey ya'll,

In terms of keeping good records, how do you track agent commissions and taxes withheld by paymasters?

Say I have a $3,000 invoice. Agent's take is 10% or $300. Then, the paymaster wi ...
  Topic: The Rate is Right (or is it?)
Mike Paul

Replies: 3
Views: 5147

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 7:53 pm   Subject: The Rate is Right (or is it?)
Yeah, it's non-union so no benefits there. Home studio, booking out is fine (just need to make up hours at day job if I want that money).

Not a big character, either--just the unseen announcer of a ...
  Topic: The Rate is Right (or is it?)
Mike Paul

Replies: 3
Views: 5147

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 12:45 pm   Subject: The Rate is Right (or is it?)
BOB: Rod Roddy, WHO is our next contestant on The Rate is Right?

ROD: Well, Bob, we're looking for Voy Sacktor from Itellya Mane. (Cue music) Come on down! YOU'RE the next contestant on The Rate is ...
  Topic: What we want for the VO-BB in 2025
Mike Paul

Replies: 18
Views: 13040

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 7:50 pm   Subject: What we want for the VO-BB in 2025
Yeah, I like the idea of archiving this one as read-only and making the new one a fresh start. Lots of timeless info here.
  Topic: What we want for the VO-BB in 2025
Mike Paul

Replies: 18
Views: 13040

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:03 pm   Subject: What we want for the VO-BB in 2025
I think the more we re-engage with vo-bb and bring interesting discussions, the more people will come back and add value back into the system. When people don't water the plant, it dies.
  Topic: What we want for the VO-BB in 2025
Mike Paul

Replies: 18
Views: 13040

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 10:47 pm   Subject: What we want for the VO-BB in 2025
Let me offer these words of wisdom from the school of hard knocks, which I learned while building product for web and mobile:

Never build your business one somebody else's platform. They can pull t ...
  Topic: The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
Mike Paul

Replies: 2
Views: 8379

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 5:28 am   Subject: The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
If you haven't read this book, it might just take you to the next level, depending on where you're at. I just finished it with my wife and mom--and discovered I've been (most of us have all been) a &q ...
  Topic: For better or for worse, I'm back!
Mike Paul

Replies: 2
Views: 23453

PostForum: Chat   Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2025 7:52 pm   Subject: For better or for worse, I'm back!
Welcome back. If you want a daily accountability email to hold your feet to the fire, let me know.
 
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