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I once quoted the "know they will refuse price" to a production company and an email came back.

"They went for it, sorry! Script attached. Mike"

Right???? So, I have asked m ...

There have been times I just didn't want to do a job.

That's why there's the I Don't Want to Do It Price™.

TRUE! And sometimes I have asked for an enormous amount just so THEY say no....and th ...

He hated voicing from a booth, so he often VO'd from outside the booth with a 416.Some of his VO promo sessions were loaded with XXX commentary as he recorded. (Um, "salty language") A real ...

I was fortunate to be in an all day Saturday workout group when I was a teen with the top tier of vo talent. Ernie came by from time to time. It was like watching Michelangelo at the mic.

Note in ...

My minimum is $100 per page, with a monthly guarantee of $300, even if less than 3 pages. But I've worked for stations that paid quite a lot more. As well as stations that up my fees with every annu ...

Related but unrelated. When COVID hit, the only acting genre that kept going was VO. Animation was never recorded from home studios. But with COVID came the necessity for animation actors to upgrad ...

It's an interesting piece. Since the majority of vo today is non-union, fewer actors benefit from working union. I was just lucky that when I got in the majority was union. Now, it was far harder t ...

Confused. Are you asking about your auditions or if they want to commit to representing you? (usually an agent does not send auditions to someone they are not representing, so it's unclear if they si ...

I do not do audio books, but I know many union actors who voice union audio books all the time. So, there is a contract somewhere.

There's a difference between non-union and non-jurisdictional. N ...

...in most cases anyone pushing VO success on social media is either selling, or planning to sell, services to newcomers.

Agreed. There, it might make business sense; though not without cost.

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There's a lot of chatter these days about AI. The non-union world is being horribly hit as actors are finding past work being used for new content without compensation. Actors are discovering by par ...

Kind of agree with Bish. I did indeed participate in that survey. Yes, the majority who participated were a collective from a couple of Facebook VO pages. Not a tiny group, but as Bish infers, a li ...

Well, in my circles ya don't talk about income. Just kinda tacky to do so. No one really asks. Now, I've had animation students ask what can be made. My answer is anywhere from nothing, to scale p ...

I do understand and actually recommend referrals. A letter of recommendation is asking a lot as many just don't want to take the time to write a letter of referral, including myself. But hey, everyo ...

Well, you need to clarify which of the requirements you are referring to, cuz their site lists many. If it's "we are no longer working with talent who have active accounts with TheVoiceRealm.com ...