The VO Meter… Measuring Your Voice Over Progress. The VO Meter is brought to you by voiceactorwebsites.com, VocalBooth2Go, podcastdemos.com, Global Voice Acting Academy, JMCDemos, and IPDTL.
And now, your hosts, Paul Stefano and Sean Daeley.
Welcome back to live at VOcation, sorry, VOcation 2019. I’ve been corrected several times by Jamie and Karen already, because I like to call it VOcation. It’s not correct, apparently.
No, it’s VOcation.
And now I’m here with Brad Newman, who’s presenting today. Brad, how are you?
I’m good, man. How are you?
I’m fantastic. We just had a nice lunch at Riverside Park.
Oh, I laid down on a towel. It was nice. I had pizza just fed to me.
It was delicious.
Yeah, I’m not from New York, so anytime I can get my hands on some legit New York pizza, I’m happy.
Man, I’m just happy that you fed me. I mean, I was laying down and you just kept serving it right in. It was amazing.
It was a little weird.
I didn’t know you served that way, but it was good.
But anyway, you’re presenting today. Tell us a little bit about your presentation and what you’re hoping to gain from the conference.
So it’s organizational marketing, but really it’s about marketing in a way that gets you out of a VO headspace. Voice over people always look at it with a VO angle, and I’m encouraging people to look at it from the angle of their buyers, instead as fellow VO talent. Look for ways that you can engage the buyers and where you can meet them and solve their needs and remove their pain.
So that’s the marketing aspect of it. So it’s literally stepping away from voice over marketing as a voice talent and thinking of the ways that you would solve other problems in the world because that helps you see it from a different perspective, a different view or a different angle.
Okay, so without giving away your whole presentation for those that didn’t pay to come to the conference, give me one or two key points.
So surround yourself around other people that have what you want. That will prove to be a tremendous value over and over and over because they can pick you up when they’re down, they can help you through problems. Everybody that’s done VO or most people that’s done VO have done something different in their life, so we all have these unique problems.
Maybe they help you edit a blog or they’re an amazing wizard in audition to edit something. And so we all have these talents that we can help one another. I call that favor debt.
I put people into favor debt and I leverage that favor debt when I need for either more exposure or opportunities that I need help on. And so I’m going to tell everybody about how to bring those two things together and look at this world of VO that we do in a different way.
Favor debt. I like that a lot.
I registered the domain. You can’t have it.
Well, there goes that idea.
favordet.com. There’s nothing there, but I own it. It’s good to know.
So in addition to being a presenter today, most people hopefully know you’re also a voice over talent. What are you looking for? What are you hoping to gather at the conference personally as a VO talent?
You know, I think every time you approach one of these conferences, you go in with an agenda of, oh, I would like to learn this. And what ends up happening is you sit down and you hear something that totally rocks your world and becomes that aha moment. And you didn’t realize that that’s what you’re going to walk away with from.
I’ve already seen that this morning with the Pro Panel. Maria Pendolino was on that. And I was literally sending her chat messages via Facebook while she was talking and how much of a rock star she is with the way that she was able to answer questions, remove people’s roadblocks.
She is like a VO whisperer or therapist to VO talent to identify and find problems and fix it. I didn’t come here expecting that. Rocked my world.
That’s going to be my takeaway so far. It was amazing.
Well, great. Well, hopefully you’ll enjoy the rest of the conference. Good luck with your presentation and we’ll talk to you soon.
And I’m looking forward to yours. Talk soon. Thanks, Paul.
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