Classes
Here’s the latest schedule of VO2GoGO Secrets of VO classes, and workshops David teaches elsewhere, with links to get more info and to reserve your seat.
Get location, cost and other information on the classes here, and here’s how to reserve your seat. Other workshops and appearances need to be booked via the organization sponsoring the event, and those details are on each event page.
If you are a VO2GoGo Pro, here is where you reserve your seat for any of these classes as a performing Participant or an observing Auditor on a first-come, first-served basis at no cost. If you are not a Pro, classes are $60 each for Participants and $40 each for Auditors. You can become a Pro here.
Mastering ACX
Audible, the world's most recognizable audiobook sales site, wants to find the next generation of audiobook VO performers to voice the next generation of digital audiobooks. Find out how to get on their radio and capture your share of the audiobook market.
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Live vClass Taping - Getting Started in VO + Fiction Audiobooks
One night. Two Classes. Take one, or both. Get the video free.
Getting Started in VO (10:00PM): From commercials to narration and IVR, from demos to home equipment, from auditioning to marketing, this three week course gives you the grounding you need to create a new career for yourself, taught by a working VO artist and award winning teacher.
Fiction Audiobooks (11:00PM): With Audible, Amazon Kindle, iBooks and many other online e-book outlets becoming the biggest selling category of books, fiction audiobooks aren't far behind. And with the ability to use your home studio to create your finished product, you simply must acquire world class skills in fiction audiobook voicing and production.
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Live vClass Taping - Non-Fiction Audiobooks + Children's Audiobooks
One night. Two Classes. Take one, or both. Get the video free.
Non-Fiction Audiobooks (10:00PM): Manuals, DIY titles, workbooks, academic publications and more aren't novels, but are also often ignored by most narrators. Learn how to profit from their oversight.
Children's Audiobooks (11:00PM): It's the oldest of all voiceover skills - reading to children. We've all done it when baby-sitting, but what about as a job category? Raise your skill level in the vast category of children's audiobooks, and open a whole new world of work and profit.
Get details and reserve your seat
Mastering ACX
Audible, the world's most recognizable audiobook sales site, wants to find the next generation of audiobook VO performers to voice the next generation of digital audiobooks. Find out how to get on their radio and capture your share of the audiobook market.
Get details and reserve your seat
Live vClass Taping - Social Networking for VO + Animation and Videogames
One night. Two Classes. Take one, or both. Get the video free.
Social Networking for VO (10:00PM): While reels, zed cards, cassettes, mailers, business cards and CDs had their day as ways for VO artists to connect with their clients, today's marketing materials are often not physical at all - but rather ways to connect and market online. As social networks come and go, you'll be able to master each one as a VO megaphone.
Animation and Videogames (11:00PM): One of the most difficult categories of VO to crack, it all starts with world-class techniques for voicing videogames, animation and anime production online and broadcast on TV and cable.
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Getting Started in VO Workshop
From commercials to narration and IVR, from demos to home equipment, from auditioning to marketing, this three week course gives you the grounding you need to create a new career for yourself, taught by a working VO artist and award winning teacher.
Get details and reserve your seat
Fiction Audiobooks
With Audible, Amazon Kindle, iBooks and many other online e-book outlets becoming the biggest selling category of books, fiction audiobooks aren't far behind. And with the ability to use your home studio to create your finished product, you simply must acquire world class skills in fiction audiobook voicing and production.
Get details and reserve your seat
Fiction Audiobooks
With Audible, Amazon Kindle, iBooks and many other online e-book outlets becoming the biggest selling category of books, fiction audiobooks aren't far behind. And with the ability to use your home studio to create your finished product, you simply must acquire world class skills in fiction audiobook voicing and production.
Get details and reserve your seat
Non-Fiction Audiobooks
Manuals, DIY titles, workbooks, academic publications and more aren't novels, but are also often ignored by most narrators. Learn how to profit from their oversight.
Get details and reserve your seat
Non-Fiction Audiobooks
Manuals, DIY titles, workbooks, academic publications and more aren't novels, but are also often ignored by most narrators. Learn how to profit from their oversight.
Get details and reserve your seat
Children's Audiobooks
It's the oldest of all voiceover skills - reading to children. We've all done it when baby-sitting, but what about as a job category? Raise your skill level in the vast category of children's audiobooks, and open a whole new world of work and profit.
Get details and reserve your seat
Children's Audiobooks
It's the oldest of all voiceover skills - reading to children. We've all done it when baby-sitting, but what about as a job category? Raise your skill level in the vast category of children's audiobooks, and open a whole new world of work and profit.
Get details and reserve your seat
Social Networking for VO
While reels, zed cards, cassettes, mailers, business cards and CDs had their day as ways for VO artists to connect with their clients, today's marketing materials are often not physical at all - but rather ways to connect and market online. As social networks come and go, you'll be able to master each one as a VO megaphone.
Get details and reserve your seat
Social Networking for VO
While reels, zed cards, cassettes, mailers, business cards and CDs had their day as ways for VO artists to connect with their clients, today's marketing materials are often not physical at all - but rather ways to connect and market online. As social networks come and go, you'll be able to master each one as a VO megaphone.
Get details and reserve your seat
Animation and Videogames
One of the most difficult categories of VO to crack, it all starts with world-class techniques for voicing videogames, animation and anime production online and broadcast on TV and cable.
Get details and reserve your seat
Animation and Videogames
One of the most difficult categories of VO to crack, it all starts with world-class techniques for voicing videogames, animation and anime production online and broadcast on TV and cable.
Get details and reserve your seat
Specialty Narration
Separate and apart from traditional documentary narration, there are several major categories of content-specific narration work that centers around large bodies of information: scientific, technical, legal, medical and so on. These narration skills don't necessarily require a working knowledge of the specialty category in question, but if your personal knowledge extends to that space, you'll find yourself with yet another way to make a living as a VO performer.
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Specialty Narration
Separate and apart from traditional documentary narration, there are several major categories of content-specific narration work that centers around large bodies of information: scientific, technical, legal, medical and so on. These narration skills don't necessarily require a working knowledge of the specialty category in question, but if your personal knowledge extends to that space, you'll find yourself with yet another way to make a living as a VO performer.
Get details and reserve your seat
Creating Your Own VO Content
Why wait for someone else to hire you? You've got a voice, and you're already in charge of You, Inc, so put yourself to work, and collect all the profits. Create your own content, piggy back on events in the news, big movie releases and wake up every morning with money in the bank - from people buying your audio products.
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Creating Your Own VO Content
Why wait for someone else to hire you? You've got a voice, and you're already in charge of You, Inc, so put yourself to work, and collect all the profits. Create your own content, piggy back on events in the news, big movie releases and wake up every morning with money in the bank - from people buying your audio products.
Get details and reserve your seat
Agents and Unions
Although you certainly can enjoy a healthy voiceover career without the help of a VO agent, your portfolio of opportunity expands greatly when you have representation that's seeking work on your behalf. And union membership further increases your income when you book higher paying union jobs.
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Agents and Unions
Although you certainly can enjoy a healthy voiceover career without the help of a VO agent, your portfolio of opportunity expands greatly when you have representation that's seeking work on your behalf. And union membership further increases your income when you book higher paying union jobs.
Get details and reserve your seat
Trailers and Promos
Movie trailers, TV promos, sizzle reels, web previews and other spotlight products can be found promoting every category of performance. Learn the skills you need to master this category of voicework.
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Trailers and Promos
Movie trailers, TV promos, sizzle reels, web previews and other spotlight products can be found promoting every category of performance. Learn the skills you need to master this category of voicework.
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Managing VO Clients and Projects
Auditioning and booking jobs are only part of the VO professional's responsibilities. Managing multiple VO projects is essential to making voiceover a profitable career, and managing clients give you the opportunity to not only show off your performance skills, but the management skills clients so desperately need.
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Managing VO Clients and Projects
Auditioning and booking jobs are only part of the VO professional's responsibilities. Managing multiple VO projects is essential to making voiceover a profitable career, and managing clients give you the opportunity to not only show off your performance skills, but the management skills clients so desperately need.
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Training and Industrials
Training videos, website how-to's, software installation, management and industrial process training are but a few of the products in this category, and the marketplace for these types of VO work span both union, non-union, domestic and international boundaries.
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Training and Industrials
Training videos, website how-to's, software installation, management and industrial process training are but a few of the products in this category, and the marketplace for these types of VO work span both union, non-union, domestic and international boundaries.
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IVR and Phone Prompts
There are over 10 billion phones in the world – one and one-half for every man, woman and child on the planet. 70% are business phones, and all phones have some sort of voice mail or outbound messaging associated with them. In the most profitable category of voicework in David’s portfolio, and the most plentiful of work categories, you’ll find a largely hidden market of work.
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IVR and Phone Prompts
There are over 10 billion phones in the world – one and one-half for every man, woman and child on the planet. 70% are business phones, and all phones have some sort of voice mail or outbound messaging associated with them. In the most profitable category of voicework in David’s portfolio, and the most plentiful of work categories, you’ll find a largely hidden market of work.
Get details and reserve your seat
The Art of Self-Direction
The days of traveling to cattle calls for VO auditions are few and far between, leaving us all at home, by ourselves, to submit auditions and perform work in isolation and solitude. Learn the essential skill of self-direction, the newest and most important skill the VO actor needs in the digital age.
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The Art of Self-Direction
The days of traveling to cattle calls for VO auditions are few and far between, leaving us all at home, by ourselves, to submit auditions and perform work in isolation and solitude. Learn the essential skill of self-direction, the newest and most important skill the VO actor needs in the digital age.
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Digital and Internet VO
The changing landscape of voiceover work has been affected deeply by the advent of the Internet. Not only has the Net changed how we market ourselves and acquire auditions and work, it has also spawned new types of voiceover product with performance requirements unique to the digital world.
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Digital and Internet VO
The changing landscape of voiceover work has been affected deeply by the advent of the Internet. Not only has the Net changed how we market ourselves and acquire auditions and work, it has also spawned new types of voiceover product with performance requirements unique to the digital world.
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Marketing VO Services
Who would have thought that IVR, or apps, or digital talking outdoor signage, or e-books would all be vibrant markets in which to sell your VO skills? Or that any one of those might end up being the largest category of income for many VO artists? Learn how in this vital 2 hour class
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Marketing VO Services
Who would have thought that IVR, or apps, or digital talking outdoor signage, or e-books would all be vibrant markets in which to sell your VO skills? Or that any one of those might end up being the largest category of income for many VO artists? Learn how in this vital 2 hour class.
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Home VO Gear
It used to be that going to your VO agent’s office or to a studio somewhere in the city to audition for a VO job was an almost daily event. Not anymore: to be a successful VO artist, you must have excellent home and portable VO equipment. The good news? It can cost you less than $100 to get all you need
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Home VO Gear
It used to be that going to your VO agent's office or to a studio somewhere in the city to audition for a VO job was an almost daily event. Not anymore: to be a successful VO artist, you must have excellent home and portable VO equipment. The good news? It can cost you less than $100 to get all you need.
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Commercial VO - Part 1
The most common category of work, commercial copy occupies a special place in the rainbow of work you will encounter in your voiceover career. Especially here in the US, where broadcast television and radio is almost entirely advertiser supported, honing your performance skills in commercial copy is paramount.
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Commercial VO - Part 1
The most common category of work, commercial copy occupies a special place in the rainbow of work you will encounter in your voiceover career. Especially here in the US, where broadcast television and radio is almost entirely advertiser supported, honing your performance skills in commercial copy is paramount.
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Commercial VO - Part 2
Continuing on work done in the first of these three classes, diving deeper into the types of commercial reads, the categories of products, the pacing and rhythms of copy, and the benefits advertisers desperately need to communicate to the viewers and listeners of their message, the goal is perfecting your approach to this primary VO category.
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Commercial VO - Part 2
Continuing on work done in the first of these three classes, diving deeper into the types of commercial reads, the categories of products, the pacing and rhythms of copy, and the benefits advertisers desperately need to communicate to the viewers and listeners of their message, the goal is perfecting your approach to this primary VO category.
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Commercial VO - Part 3
Continuing on work done in the first two of these three classes, diving deeper into the types of commercial reads, the categories of products, the pacing and rhythms of copy, and the benefits advertisers desperately need to communicate to the viewers and listeners of their message, the goal is perfecting your approach to this primary VO category.
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Commercial VO - Part 3
Continuing on work done in the first two of these three classes, diving deeper into the types of commercial reads, the categories of products, the pacing and rhythms of copy, and the benefits advertisers desperately need to communicate to the viewers and listeners of their message, the goal is perfecting your approach to this primary VO category.
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Mastering Voice123 - Part 1
Just as with on-camera acting work, online casting sites are becoming more and more important to your VO career, sometimes completely supplanting casting directors, agents, producers, and others that managed the traditional process of casting and producing audio products.
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Mastering Voice123 - Part 1
Just as with on-camera acting work, online casting sites are becoming more and more important to your VO career, sometimes completely supplanting casting directors, agents, producers, and others that managed the traditional process of casting and producing audio products.
Get details and reserve your seat
Mastering Voice123 - Part 2
We continue with week 2. Just as with on-camera acting work, online casting sites are becoming more and more important to your VO career, sometimes completely supplanting casting directors, agents, producers, and others that managed the traditional process of casting and producing audio products.
Get details and reserve your seat
Mastering Voice123 - Part 2
We continue with week 2. Just as with on-camera acting work, online casting sites are becoming more and more important to your VO career, sometimes completely supplanting casting directors, agents, producers, and others that managed the traditional process of casting and producing audio products.
Get details and reserve your seat
Perfect VO Demos
Commercial demos, IVR demos, narration demos and others are each a calling card that will introduce the buyers of your voice work to your instrument. Your demo should begin with careful planning, and conclude with artful, world class production and distribution to the voice buying community.
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Perfect VO Demos
Commercial demos, IVR demos, narration demos and others are each a calling card that will introduce the buyers of your voice work to your instrument. Your demo should begin with careful planning, and conclude with artful, world class production and distribution to the voice buying community.
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Documentary Narration
Elegantly handling documentary narration is part and parcel of the professional VO artist’s set of tools. Learn the skills you need to master this category of voicework.
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Documentary Narration
Elegantly handling documentary narration is part and parcel of the professional VO artist’s set of tools. Learn the skills you need to master this category of voicework.
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Success in 2013 Year-end Tuneup - Week 1
With a new year comes a renewed commitment to making sure you're firing on all cylinders with your VO career. That means examining all of your systems, from acquisition to auditioning to performance to marketing to technology, and making sure you're using world-class techniques to book VO work. This two week tuneup will do just that.
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Success in 2013 Year-end Tuneup - Week 1
With a new year comes a renewed commitment to making sure you're firing on all cylinders with your VO career. That means examining all of your systems, from acquisition to auditioning to performance to marketing to technology, and making sure you're using world-class techniques to book VO work. This two week tuneup will do just that.
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Success in 2013 Year-end Tuneup - Week 2
With a new year comes a renewed commitment to making sure you're firing on all cylinders with your VO career. That means examining all of your systems, from acquisition to auditioning to performance to marketing to technology, and making sure you're using world-class techniques to book VO work. This two week tuneup will do just that.
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Success in 2013 Year-end Tuneup - Week 2
With a new year comes a renewed commitment to making sure you're firing on all cylinders with your VO career. That means examining all of your systems, from acquisition to auditioning to performance to marketing to technology, and making sure you're using world-class techniques to book VO work. This two week tuneup will do just that.
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News and Information VO
Like commercials, narration and IVR, the category of news and information products have a certain style and performance technique unique to the category. Traditional radio and television outlets have been joined by podcasts, satellite, cable, email blasts and other new connections, giving you an even greater opportunity to audition and land these lucrative jobs.
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News and Information VO
Like commercials, narration and IVR, the category of news and information products have a certain style and performance technique unique to the category. Traditional radio and television outlets have been joined by podcasts, satellite, cable, email blasts and other new connections, giving you an even greater opportunity to audition and land these lucrative jobs.
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VO auditions on your iPhone
