VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Philip Banks · Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:05 am Post subject:

LUXURY!

One Friday I had to read the entire Bible in Unicode, hand deliver it to Mercury before tea and supply the pies HANDBAKED while the client reviewed it ALL for under a pound!

Tell the Voiceoverist newbies that today and they'd never believe you!

Lance Blair · M&M Joined: 03 Jun 2007 Posts: 2281 Location: Atlanta

Heh, Scott, my Russian and Polish clients pay either immediately before or after a session. When a client is late I'm tempted to shove this fact in their faces.

As I do mostly corporate, August is usually one of my best months, as they need to record the reels for September and October trade shows/conventions.

There's usually a lot of educational work in the summer for me, but my clients for that got delayed this year...BOOO!

For some reason, February and April are always the worst.
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TLynch · Joined: 16 Jun 2012 Posts: 11 Location: DMV (DC, VA, MD)

Thank you all for sharing your experiences. It is greatly appreciated. To hear what others are doing to continue moving themselves forward, helps me understand the work I need to start, and continue doing. I have been in the midst of developing my marketing plan and building VO relationships. It's good to confirm that is what I should be doing, along with other efforts. I'll be interested in seeing how well that effort translates into furthering my career.
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Yonie · CM Joined: 31 Aug 2011 Posts: 906

Lee Gordon · Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 4:18 pm Post subject:

Scott Pollak · Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 5:24 am Post subject:

Back to the main topic here....

Wink

I've even noticed that the amount of work sent to me daily by NPR slows down during the summer. For about 9-10 months of the year, I cut an average of around 90-100 sponsor spots each month. Here we are wrapping up July and it's less than 50. This is typical. So it would appear to be an across-the-board summer slowdown.
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Lee Gordon · Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 9:58 am Post subject:

I can generally count on having one slow month every year (hopefully only one) but, oddly, it's not the same month from year to year and not always in the summer. This year it has been July but in previous years it's been February, April, or October. There seems to be no correlation between the seasons, holidays, the state of the economy, or any other metric.

And even in that traditionally dead week between Christmas and New Year, I always seem to manage to get at least one commercial to do. I can't explain it.
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