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I'm asked all the time: what do I think of these two services, Voice123 and Voices.com? Well, I recently let my memberships expire when I discovered what these services are doing to the market for V/O professionals. I first became disturbed when I began to see job postings paying $100-$300 or some other on-godly sum where the voice seeker was requesting 100 or 200 auditions. I hope voice talents rise up against this and save their money. This is having an extremely negative effect on our business. Mind you, I guess the voice seekers will get what they paid for. Thoughts?

Bailey · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 1:39 pm Post subject:

Garth... If you do a search in the archives for V123, Voice123, P2P... and stuff like that, you'll find that more than enough cussing and discussing has been done on this subject. Most of those thoughts have been thoroughly chewed and digested. I only bring this up so you won’t be disappointed if only a few on the board care to participate in the discussion.

That being said... Garth, welcome to the VO-BB! Smile

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bobsouer · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 2:36 pm Post subject:

Garth,

Welcome to the VO-BB. As "Bailey" suggests, the archives are filled with lots of gold.
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bobbinbeamo · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 9:37 am Post subject:

Hi Garth & welcome. A Treasure trove is definitely found in the archives. Happy searching. You'll find a lot of wisdom there.
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Philip Banks · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:21 am Post subject:

Or for speed and accuracy.

For the majority both sites neatly combine false hope, a waste of money and are time bandits.

Bailey · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:26 am Post subject:

I'd say Philip wins the award for "speed and accuracy"... in 17 words or less.
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Moe Egan · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:28 am Post subject:

Threadjack:

Jim
I LOVE your new avatar!

Okay: carry on.
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Deirdre · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:58 pm Post subject:

Here ya go:

http://www.vo-bb.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5696

I've been looking for that thread for 2 days.
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Bailey · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:41 pm Post subject:

Thank God... and Deirdre... for Entre Nous.
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Yoda117 · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject:

COURVO · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 2:06 pm Post subject:

Also, for a great search mechanism...try this (something Deirdre herself suggested in searching this forum).

In your Google search dialogue box:

"V123"_site:vo-bb

-or-

site: http://www,vo-bb.com/_"V123"

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Yoda117 · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:15 pm Post subject:

or simply:

"site:vo-bb.com v123"

the folks at google were kind enough to provide multiple paths for the same SQL query (since it can be done using several methods).

All three should work fine in any major search engine.
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bobsouer · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:24 pm Post subject:

Though it's probably good to point out that none of the searches using Google will find anything in the sections that are visible only to those who are registered.
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Deirdre · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:45 am Post subject:

Thanks, Bob— and that thread is indeed in the un-Googleable Entre Nous.

I wanted people to speak their minds freely.
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