VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Philip Banks · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 12:54 am Post subject: Jennifer VOICE2010

Email from Jennifer in LA, received about 20 minutes ago. I honestly don't remember meeting her.

Below is the important part of the email.

"You were so nice to me when we met I decided I should go along to the panel on Saturday morning. What you guys said lit a fire under my butt. My (named pay to play sites) were due in June and July so I got my VOICE2010 money back by not renewing any of them. I'm marketing more, auditioning less and booking more

Well done Team Trenches.

Deirdre · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:10 am Post subject:

Yay!!! I'll tell John Taylor.
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Darren Altman · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 3:15 am Post subject:

Phillip,

I wasn't at the conference so didn't hear your panel. Is the inference here that the P2P subscription sites are a waste of time? I'm on several and as a result, not only am I winning auditions, making money (in excess of the fees) but am gaining regular clients as a result. This is on top of my agent's gigs, constant marketing, networking, social media etc etc that also gains me returning clients.
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JBarrett · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 6:36 am Post subject:

I would imagine that "YMMV" would apply in this situation, as with any other situation involving P2P sites. Some folks have great success with them. Others don't. I've been on the two main P2P players for a year now. Haven't landed a single job on one, and got two jobs right at the beginning of my subscription on the other, with nothing more since then. In contrast, my own marketing efforts in the past six months have netted me MUCH more than a year of auditioning on those sites. I'll likely let the subscription on the fruitless one lapse into oblivion later this month, and hang on to the other a hair longer.
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Moe Egan · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 6:36 am Post subject:

The proof is in the pudding as they say.
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Philip Banks · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 6:59 am Post subject:

The post was about someone saying they have enjoyed a degree of success having acted on a number of points raised by the panel at VOICE2010. Reality is that it was about more than P2P sites.

Darren Altman · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 8:00 am Post subject:

Fair enough! Wink

DougVox · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 8:55 am Post subject: Re: Jennifer VOICE2010

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Regardless of your take on the P2P sites, this is a great goal for all of us:

jsgilbert · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:18 am Post subject:

hmmmm, I don't remember anyone on the panek saying anything useful. Maybe it just didn't filter to the back of the room. Or it could be that I was simply fixated on this red dress I had seen a certain voice coach wearing and couldn't pay attention to anything else.
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Mandy Nelson · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:21 am Post subject:

that is awesome feedback.

Pudding.
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Philip Banks · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:40 am Post subject:

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Philip Banks · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:52 am Post subject:

It was all going so well until she saw me kissing Nancy Wolson and then I think she guessed it was over.

jsgilbert · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:24 am Post subject:

Indeed, after reading Philip's reply, I was trying to figure out when I am at my best and for the life of me, I couldn't come up with an answer.

But who needs a panel to advise you when you have a magic 8 ball. Mine just said "The answers you seek shall be revealed shortly".

I'm not sure what answers they are though, because I seem to have forgotten the question.
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Philip Banks · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:31 am Post subject:

Only one vital question in life. Fries or baked potato with that? In the case of most VOICE2010 delegates they're asking that question of a regular client.