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Anyone found an agent through Voice Registry?

 
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:26 pm    Post subject: Anyone found an agent through Voice Registry? Reply with quote

Was poking around voicebank.net and after trying to register myself, I got an email saying that only agents could register talent. But if I wanted to fork over $150 to Voice Registry, "a service specifically for VO artists who are trying to get representation"....

Anyone ever gotten an agent through them?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Let me ask you this:

When did agents ever "look" for voice talent?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Deirdre wrote:
Let me ask you this:

When did agents ever "look" for voice talent?

From them: "when Agents are looking for new Talent to add to their rosters"....

Which I might take to mean "Crappy agents who can't get decent talent"?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That letter makes the rounds, my friend.

I get it every couple of years.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The initial question remains: Has anyone ever landed an agent from this service?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The only value I can see is it's a good place to host your demo if you're doing some self-marketing and you want to be able to include a link in an email. And you don't have any other, less expensive place to host it. Nobody's gonna "discover" you there, I wager.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

already have my own site, so I'm going to pass. Thanks for the info
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

paying $ to join a site to find an agent...?

oh yeah, sign me right up for this Rolls Eyes
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am listed at Voice Registry and, to be honest, didn't sign up to be found by an agent. What I used it for was another route for clients to find me. Within the first week Nickelodeon had auditioned me.Smile The next week a porn service Lips Are Sealed and so on. Philip turned me on to them. And now, since I am represented by a voicebank agency I have to leave it.

To answer your question: No. I did not get an agent through VR. It was through the the vo-bb. Go figure.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It offers credible visibility. For some reason it has a perceived value/credibility amongst its visitors.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dan-O wrote:
To answer your question: No. I did not get an agent through VR. It was through the the vo-bb. Go figure.

I'd love to read that story.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been picked up by a few agents but not through my listing there. It was a one-shot deal for me and I'm writing it off as advertising.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jrodriguez315 wrote:
Dan-O wrote:
To answer your question: No. I did not get an agent through VR. It was through the the vo-bb. Go figure.

I'd love to read that story.


About 8 months ago, our beloved Pat Fraley posted a notice about a new agent looking for talent. I made the cut.

And Pat, again, thank you. Toni has been fantastic.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 8:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dan-O wrote:
jrodriguez315 wrote:
Dan-O wrote:
To answer your question: No. I did not get an agent through VR. It was through the the vo-bb. Go figure.

I'd love to read that story.


About 8 months ago, our beloved Pat Fraley posted a notice about a new agent looking for talent. I made the cut.

And Pat, again, thank you. Toni has been fantastic.


Nice. Thanks for sharing. How about the Voice Registry thing. You get a lot of work through that?
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It has helped quite a bit.
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