Voice Talents Peter K. O'Connell, Lisa Biggs & Diane Merritt

As people tell me all the time “you spend a lot of time in airports”.

That’s true but one of the benefits (besides making money on these trips) is the opportunity to visit with voice over friends old and new in the cities I travel to.

Some cities, like Sioux Falls, SD and Des Moines, IA have, like, no voice talents living there (or they’re hiding from me, which is understandable).

So either Diane Merritt and Lisa Biggs are lousy hiders or they didn’t have caller ID on their phones because we got to hang out together on my trip to beautiful Greenville, SC.

Diane (whose voice you may hear on a Colgate commercial airing across the country on CNBC among other channels) is originally from Buffalo, NY but ran screaming….’er, moved down south and lives in Greenville with her family. Her studio is wonderful, fully matching her voice over talent.

Lisa whose amazingly youthful and profitable voice recently was requested to be auditioned for a developing Snow White project (thinking good thoughts for the outcome there), came to Greenville from L.A. (she still occasionally commutes, doing VO work out there as well as in Greenville). She’s getting married soon to the very dreamy Robert (actually, I’ve never met Robert, so I cannot attest to his dreaminess).

Anyway, they were both very gracious to spend their lunch time with me and I am very appreciative for their friendship. Thank you both.

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My friend Dan Friedman, he of ProComm and Faffcon fame, pinged me to let me know that his SOUNDADVICEVO and SOUNDADVICE – Voiceover have been rebranded to SOUND4VO complete with a new address: http://sound4vo.com/

Lots of valuable information can be found be reading Dan’s book and blog so stay tuned or get subscribed!

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I’m a little late catching up to emails but I see now that Marice Tobias is doing a workshop in Toronto on April 30th and May 1st 2011.

This one is on Commercial, Narration, and Promo…not sure what studio but there are plenty of nice ones in TO.

I think this is similar to the one I took in Atlanta a few years ago. If you have a chance to go to Marice’s seminar, you will not regret it.

If you need a referral, check with me.

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Voice Talents Lee Gordon, Peter K. O'Connell and Doug Turkel

So you may have heard the news (which I wrote, egotastically) that I was fortunate enough to earn a second year as the voice of SunSetter’s national TV campaign.

What you might not have known is that I share the moniker of SunSetter VO Talent with some terrific voices and, fortunately for me, good friends.

Both Lee Gordon and Doug Turkel have also served as voice talents for SunSetter Awnings and done spectacular jobs for the client. The above picture came from Faffcon 2 in Atlanta.

I am always proud to be in their company professionally and personally.

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Many folks ask me about marketing ideas for their voice over business but turn ashen when they think about any cost that might be involved.

While I encourage reasonable financial investment in some tools, I also advise that there are free tools to take advantage of as well. One of the best of the free tools is public relations. It also requires lot of work on its execution.

PR can be defined many way but the most well known tool in the PR arsenal is the press release. The keys to a good release is having a story worth telling. The best way to do that is to try and ask yourself “if I was an editor of the publication I want to send my release to, would I want to print this release or write a story based on this release?”

Tell a story – don’t try and tell the world how great you are (that’s not news and it’s not as true as you think).

If your release passes THAT sniff test, make sure you follow standard press release formats (tools and information about that are all over the web) and PROOF READ your document – actually it’s a good idea to have someone else read it after you have written the release.

But who to send it to?

Well our friends at Voices.com have offered up their online publication, Voice Over Times, as an outlet for voice over news. If you want the deets on who/what/when/where, read up on that here.

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From the Tobias Entertainment Group blog comes this very thoughtful story that I hope you’ll take a moment to read.

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