So, welcome back to The VO Meter live at MAVO 2018. I am now joined by Marc Scott. Marc, how are you doing?
It’s been so long since we talked.
I know, it’s weird. It’s almost like we’re working together. I missed you.
But we’re Sean. It just doesn’t feel the same.
You know, we actually thought about piping him in. We did it yesterday for a little pre-show, Ken and I did, but it’s a little difficult on the floor here. You have to wear headphones.
Yes, I understand.
So, tell me about what you’re looking to get out of the conference.
You know, I love what’s going on this weekend in that I love that it’s been intentionally kept small. And it’s cool to walk down the hallway and be able to talk to people and spend a little bit of time with people. And it’s nice to have a smaller number of people in the session as well, because it gives me more time to address personal questions.
You know, you can’t always do that when there’s 50 or 60 or 100 people in your session, right? But when there’s only a dozen or 15, 20, whatever, it makes it a lot easier. So I think that’s really cool.
So I like that aspect of it.
Yeah, it’s small by design.
Yeah.
I think it really works well. This is my second year here, second year for the podcast. And just like 2016, I really love that intimate atmosphere.
You get to know everybody.
Yeah.
Yeah, you get to rub elbows and say hi and put your faces to names and all that.
For sure.
Much more than the bigger ones, for sure.
Yeah.
Don’t feel like you’re getting lost in the crowd.
Yeah, so you’re doing some sessions here. Tell us about those.
Yeah, I’m doing a Marketing Fundamentals for Voice Actors. And the beautiful thing about that, actually, is once you learn the basic foundations of marketing, it really applies to anything. So, you know, it’s a really popular thing in 2018 now for people to have side houses and stuff like that, too.
And so, not only are you going to draw value from that session in being able to step up your voice over business, but if you got something going on in the side as well, maybe some of the principles are going to apply to that. So I’m really looking forward to that session this afternoon. And then tomorrow, five essential goals for your voice over business and the one word that will kill it all, which I know I’ve done a good job on that title because a lot of people have been like, ooh.
So now, we’ll see whether that converts and they all show up for the session or not, but a lot of people are definitely intrigued by it. So I’m looking forward to that one, too.
That’s awesome. So aside from your own sessions, what’s something you’re looking forward to for the rest of the conference, either today or tomorrow?
I’ll tell you what, actually. I sat in this morning on Tom Deere’s session about more about the business. That should be required training.
If you are going to do voiceover, if you think you’re going to do voiceover, his session that we sat in this morning, 100% should be a required training course for anybody before they even take the next step forward, because I think it’s one of the most overlooked aspects of it. Voice actors tend to be creative by nature and by that side of the brain that they operate from. And so many fall short because they don’t think like a business owner and they don’t treat it like a business.
And so getting that business foundation laid down before you dive in will make your life so much easier. And I think it will help you grow your business a lot quicker with a lot less pain and heartache. So I really wish that there was a way to make that required learning.
You can’t buy a microphone until…
Yeah, that’s it. We’re going to talk to all the manufacturers. Don’t sell this guy a microphone and an interface until he’s got a certificate from Tom saying, I took his course.
Tom did say he lives across the street now from the B&H headquarters, or the B&H store in New York. He can do that.
Yeah, we got to work that out.
Stand at the revolving door and say, uh-uh.
No, not until you take this course.
I’m taking your marketing webinar at least twice. I have taken Tom’s online things a couple of times. You guys should team up for a buddy cop movie.
I think there’s some legs here.
We’re going to take over and teach everybody everything they need to know about the business side. You know what? Every time I go to a conference, I sit on a panel, whatever I get asked, what’s the best piece of advice that you can give?
And I always say, study entrepreneurship. Study entrepreneurship. Everybody wants to study promo with Joe and commercial with Mary Lynn and narration with Anne Gangusa and video games with Dave Finoy.
They all want to do that stuff, but you’ve got to study entrepreneurship. It needs to be at least as important, if not more so, than all of that performance training that you’re doing, because if you don’t know how to be an entrepreneur and run a business, all that other training isn’t going to do you any good.
Well, Marc, I know we just talked to you like a week ago, but you’re our latest episode on the website, but always happy to have you. Thanks for joining us this morning or this afternoon.
I’m oversaturating the market now.
Hey, that’s one way to do it.
There you go.
Alright, thanks again.
Thank you.