Jot down the day and time that you practiced and what copy or script you utilized such as a commercial, a character or a narration read. Make detailed notes about how your voice sounded. For instance; rough, dry, wet, lower pitch, greater pitch, etc. Make notes about any areas you need to deal with such as; diction, pacing or your breathing.
Since you can do something doesn't mean you should, there are numerous reasons I say just. Do you have the time needed to make voice overs on a continuous basis for your service or product? When you're dealing with your company rather of IN your company a lot of times you won't have the available time to be constantly
draining voice overs for different projects. That's where a voice over artist could can be found in and really help you release up your time for other jobs. Nevertheless, if you like recording them, then by all means utilize a various type of specialist in order to maximize time to record them yourself.
If you're COUNTRY you most likely won't get much animation work and if you're CITY you most likely will not get much IVR/voice mail greetings work. But ALL of these areas may need ANY TYPE of voice style! So, the wider your range, the wider your work potential.
For instance, you have a gravelly, low voice that's warm. You might offer yourself as the "Your Bourbon Straight-Up voice". Or you have a super-sweet female voice you would be "The Voice of a Princess", and so on.
Likewise, next time you are watching tv flick through the channels and simply count the variety of well-known voices you hear on adverts, programmes, continuity statements and so on. How many can you call? Sure there will be the superstars whose voices jump out at you, however what about the rest? Do you know who they are? Most likely not, however I DO know they are jobbing voice over artists. So replace the word 'popular' with the word 'working' - they are working voice over individuals. And they comprise part of that leading 20%.
COUNTRY folk, your biggest obstacle now is to get customers. Concentrate on getting your website seen (pay-per-click with
Google and Yahoo) and sending your link to all the local companies in your town. They'll be pleased to understand they don't need to go far to get a professional voice over for their commercial or in-house narration.
Make a commitment now to take consistent, daily action in your service. Not just will you garner new business and an enhanced track record, I assure your "dry spells" will be a thing of the past.