What you need to know to start your
voice-over business?
We will look at seven easy steps on starting a voice-over business.
1: Ensure that you have a workable home studio complete with the
necessary equipment such as a good microphone,
audio mixer, and a soundproof room.Not to forget the right
editing software.
2: Create a logo that will represent your business. If you are concentrating on
commercial advertisements and announcements, then go for more conservative logos. But, if you are fordubbing and comedy, you can
opt for more fun and vibrant logos.
3: Record a series of demos and then upload them in a server,
dropbox or similar; better still, become a member of a
voice bank or just build your own website. You will upload the demos
there to allow any potential Customer not only listen but also
download your samples.
4: Record several good samples that will showcase your talents and
skills and distribute it to a lot of agencies and producers to let them
know of your presence.
5: Aside from distributing your demo to agencies, through an e-mail for
example you should also make the effort to create a working
Relationship aspartners with companies that can give unique skills
6: Quote your price according to the volume of work, the cost of using the studio, and the time consumed doing all of it including the editing.
Make flexible enough to deal with losing clients
because of quoting too high or even too low
7: Register your company so that it acquires a legal entity.t’s a sign
of professionally to be able to invoice your voice-over jobs
properly and you will see the interest of having a proper company
in case you need to expand.
So if you apply these steps chances are that you can start
living off voice acting.
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