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If you’re going to go online to get info, I say, be a world-class info seeker. If you’re going to complain, be a best-of-breed complainer. If you’re looking for support, why not be excellent at looking for support?

And that all depends upon how skillfully you message on social media and via email, and the way you post and comment in those exchanges. My method for success certainly applies here: do more of what works and less of what doesn’t.

Here are three things that, if you stop doing them, you’ll be much happier and satisfied with your online exchanges. And you’ll get much better and faster response to your postings. Continue Reading →

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Actors I meet will often ask me to recommend workshop locations that I’ve personally found useful.

I’m going to share some of my favorites, and the first one is Connect Studios LA.

And there’s a reason they’re first: they are all about your success. Oh, and they also kindly allow me to teach the VO2GoGo curriculum there.

Here’s what makes them great. Continue Reading →

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Getting started and continuing to grow your VO and/or practice is a challenge.

And yet, there’s a drive in all of us to achieve the goal of a thriving career. But how do you support that career in the days, weeks and months before you can make a living doing VO and acting, without it taking over your life, and your eye off the survival ball?

I’ve got some help for you. Continue Reading →

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I’ve got some tough love for you today. And I hope you take it seriously.

As artists, we feel deeply about and we want to be active in the causes we believe in.

At the same time, as actors and VO artists, we run businesses we want to be successful.

Mixing the two is dangerous, and I want you to stop. Here’s why. Continue Reading →

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Over the last few years, I’ve been working on a project that’s kind of a secret.

I’ve been reformatting all of Shakespeare’s plays into screenplay format from folio format.

The first ones are up. And my Pros get them free. Continue Reading →

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As actors and VO artists, we want answers to our career questions. Sometimes, like primitive cavemen, if we can’t find those answers, we’ll accept what others tell us if we hear it enough, no matter what amount of truth those answers contain.

One of those false answers has to do with IMDB and the action of “liking” an IMDB profile. Continue Reading →

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I get really enthusiastic when some asks me about storytelling, and how important it is to your VO career to develop and hone your storytelling skills.

It’s essential.

So, every so often, I like to roll out items from this list from Emma Coats, who used to work at Pixar as a story artist, and who serially tweeted Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling.

I’m sharing with you one of these rules every so often, along with how you can apply each rule to your VO artistry.

Today, Rule 21… Continue Reading →