Promoting Your Voice Over Website

Have you recently started a new voice over business? Here is are some helpful tips for marketing your skills and services:

Do you have your demo ready? Well, it's time to send it out. Not only that, but you should do other things to promote yourself as a voice actor. Everything that you do will help further your career no matter if you have been doing it for a while or you are still looking for your very first job.

SEND OUT YOUR DEMO

Once you create the demo you can send it out to look for an agent and to get jobs. If you don't have an agent, you can search online for casting calls and find casting companies in your local are to see if they have anything.

CREATE A WEBSITE

As a working professional, you need a website to tell people who you are. Reserve your own name as a domain and create (or hire someone to create) a website that showcases you as a voice actor. Include a biography about you and your experience, an audio file people can download of your demo, and any samples that you want to share with people. Make sure the site is optimized for keywords like "voice actor" or "hire a voice actor". If you need help with the keywords, you can outsource that too.

BUSINESS CARDS

You will also want to have a nice business card printed up. You will want to, at the very list, include your name, the fact that you are a voice actor, and how people can get in touch with you. If you have a website, you should also put your website URL on the card. Hand this out to everyone, even if they don't seem to care either way about what you do. They me know someone who is in need of a voice actor! You never know.

UTILIZE THE INTERNET

The internet has changed the way a lot of voice over work is done. While the traditional avenues for getting work as a voice artist still exist, the internet is a "non-traditional" avenue that you can take. More and more people make their livings online - and a lot of these people need voice over work because they are creating informational products from the comfort of their own homes. Businesses, both local and nationwide, also use the internet to find voice talent for a lot of their smaller projects. This means that it is possible for you to either supplement your existing income in this way or start your career entirely online. For this, having a home studio is especially important.

Here are some ideas for promoting your business on the internet:

� Job posting sites. Job posting sites often have job listings for voice over work. Do a search online.

� Promote your website. Research strategies to promote your website and improve ranking in the search engines.

� Online ads. Place ads online on sites like craigslist.com and usfreeads.com highlighting your skills as a voice talent.

� Respond to ads. Sometimes, people post ads on sites like craigslist.com looking for voice artists. Respond to them!

� Social marketing. Set up a Facebook profile just for your business. Get a Twitter account and develop a following. These are all strategies you can use to promote your business. Remember that the internet has offered a wider range of possibilities for you as voice artist. Good luck!

Julie Ambrite

Professional Female Voice Talent [http://www.NaturalVoiceOvers.com] [http://www.VoiceOverWebsite.com]

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