VO-BB - 19 YEARS OLD!

Spacegypsy · Guest

Voice123 are offering 2 extra months if you renew like, now!
Is this a sign their "dirty little secret" campaign did not work? Smile

Hello Katrina,

We are inviting you to take part of this special promotion Voice123 is offering during the last days of April.

Between April 18, 2006 and April 30, 2006, Upgrade or Renew your Premium Membership and get two additional months free!

This means:

· If you are a Standard Member, upgrade to a Premium Membership between these dates and get two additional months for free. Your yearly membership will last 14 months instead of 12 months.

· If you are a Premium Member, renew your membership between these dates and it will be extended by 14 months of service instead of 12. For example, if your current membership expires in 2 months, renew and it will expire in 16 months.

To redeem the two additional months, please contact a customer support representative to have your membership extended.

To upgrade or renew your membership at this moment, please click the following link or copy and paste it into your browser: http://voice123.com/web/talent/manage_membership.cgi.

For any additional questions or comments please visit our Customer Service (http://voice123.com/doc/help.html) page to find several ways for you to get in touch with us and/or solve your issue.

Sincerely,

Franz Martin
Marketing and Communications Manager
Voice123 - The voice over marketplace
Toll Free from the US: 1.877.ASK.VOICE
New York & International: (+1) 212.461.1873
www.voice123.com

Bruce · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:19 pm Post subject:

It sounds like Baby needs some new shoes, or Daddy needs a new server...now, not later. Hmmm.

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Drew · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:51 pm Post subject:

If it quacks...

Rope you in for a new membership and then bang! Five leads a month baby!
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SoundsGreat-Elaine Singer · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:40 pm Post subject:

Interesting. As I generally delete all messages from Voice123, I didn't even notice this.
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Dave · Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject:

Their email hit the trash bin as fast as I could grab the mouse!
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Bailey · Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:17 am Post subject:

I must confess that I took advantage of this offer... but that was in January. Before that I was a non paying member. Now... about 1/3 of the offers I get are for a Woman or an Afro American voice. Wuzzup with that??
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allensco · Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:25 am Post subject:

Thank goodness my membership is about up. I will not be renewing, but will keep the FREE page (same with IV). I just joined up with Rick Gordon and Commercial Voices.com. Maybe I'll have better luck there.

Spacegypsy · Guest

So, last night I got an email for a job through Voice123.
(First in a very long time...)
The client said he had sent me a response through Voice123, but thought he would contact me by email as well.
So, I went to my Leads Answered box to check what I had put in my reply to him - and it is NOT there anymore, neither have I had notification from V123 that the client contacted me through them.
So, I wonder how many other clients have contacted me and I never got the message? How many completed demos are "dropping off" my "leads answered" page?
How many clients therefore think I am ignoring them?
Had the client not contacted me directly, I would not have known or remembered answering the lead, because it wasn't there anymore.
The only way I could track it was because I label my demos by the name of the company I audition for - and then I can see the date the file was created.
Anyone else had this situation with them?
I had been thinking something out of whack was going on, and this explains it.
It's now 9:45 am, which I think is ample time for them to have informed me this client had responded through them.

Drew · Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:53 am Post subject:

Yes. Quite a few times over the past 18 months. Several jobs were "saved" because the client either called or emailed to ask why I haven't responded. When, in fact, I received nothing through the system which to reply. The mill isn't working correctly. It really hasn't since I signed on. That's why I put direct contact info in the remarks section.

No telling how many gigs I might have lost out on because the client assumed I was blowing them off.
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Tom Greenlee · Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:39 am Post subject:

You know.....now I'm curious as well.....there's been about 5 times within the last month, that I've submitted a demo and within a half hour after submitting the demo, the client discontinues the lead (this is at various stages of the lead as well....some having been answered within the first 20 others that have been there most of the day and one that was 2 days old).....I started thinking....it must be me....they got my demo and want me....I should be getting contacted soon......well.....that contact never comes. Now I'm thinking that maybe they tried, but I just never got it. Who knows.....I'm just very suspicious now after hearing this.
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Spacegypsy · Guest

It's not the first time this has happened.
One client some while ago was very upset I hadn't contacted him after he replied through Voice123 and he emailed me afterward. At the time, I thought it was a one-off, let V123 know about it, and put it to the back of my mind, but now I'm thinking it has been happening all along. To say nothing of losing the business, it also reflects very badly on me personally. Damn, damn, damn!

Mike · Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 8:38 am Post subject:

Tom Greenlee · Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject:

OK....I'm convinced that my suspicions were correct. I now know that there is something wrong with V123 forwarding the client contacts. I've been checking my email and my inbox all day and haven't been contacted by a client once about any of my demo submissions. I'm not receiving their responses.....I have the proof! Now I'm really ticked .......hahahahaha Shocked

Just playin'
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donrandall · Guest

I have also had a similar experience. Luckily for me, the client happened across my website and contacted me through that. Now, like others, I have to wonder how many others, or if, any others have been missed.

I also noticed on occassion, that I could read every possible lead and delete everything - erasing the board - and then logging on again in just a few minutes to find a couple of "fresh" leads. Yeh sure, real fresh. They were not there ten minutes before, but they already have 279 others that have attached their auditions...... Somethin' ain't right with that.

Those are a couple of strong reasons why I allowed my membership to lapse. Now, can anyone tell me how to stop the constant onslaught of email announcing the availability of jobs I can not possibly ever get? At this point, Voice123 is nothing more than spam.

Clicking the link that promises to take one to that little bit of heaven doesn't deliver the promised service.