The Voiceover Boblog » Blogging http://bobsouer.com Posts about voiceover, life and assorted other ramblings from Bob Souer Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:47:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Added to the blogroll http://bobsouer.com/blog/2011/08/30/added-to-the-blogroll-12/ http://bobsouer.com/blog/2011/08/30/added-to-the-blogroll-12/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:56:17 +0000 Bob http://bobsouer.com/blog/2011/08/30/added-to-the-blogroll-12/ My friend Doug Turkel has started blogging about voiceover. I’m thrilled to add him to my blogroll today. Welcome to the blogosphere, Doug!

]]> http://bobsouer.com/blog/2011/08/30/added-to-the-blogroll-12/feed/ 0 Better than working for a living http://bobsouer.com/blog/2011/06/27/better-than-working-for-a-living/ http://bobsouer.com/blog/2011/06/27/better-than-working-for-a-living/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:31:07 +0000 Bob http://bobsouer.com/blog/2011/06/27/better-than-working-for-a-living/ For some time now, when people have asked me how I like working in voiceover full time my reply has been “It’s a lot better than working for a living.” Now, in truth there is “work” involved in voiceover. Meeting deadlines. Exceeding expectations. Delivering the performance people are looking for. These things don’t happen by accident. It does take concentration, effort, persistence and experience to deliver the goods in the studio. And to deliver the audio in the requested format. And so forth and so on.

But, having grown up on a farm in central Minnesota, I can tell you that voiceover is nothing like what I knew as “working for a living” as I was growing. Stacking bales of hay, shoveling grain, and especially mucking out the barn after the milk cows where finished. That was real work.

Today, I’ve spent a few hours mucking out the blogroll here at the Voiceover Boblog. It was beginning to stink to high heaven frankly. Broken links. A couple of links leading to hacked sites filled with malware. Good grief. I’ve neglected the blogroll for far too long. But as of today, I’ve personally tested every link. Later today there might be new problems but for now, everything in the blogroll should lead where it’s supposed to lead.

Now, it’s time to get back to the audiobook I’m just about to finish, and get started on the pick-ups for the other audiobook that’s due in a couple of weeks.

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]]> http://bobsouer.com/blog/2011/04/28/added-to-the-blogroll-11/feed/ 0 How to be interesting http://bobsouer.com/blog/2011/02/24/how-to-be-interesting/ http://bobsouer.com/blog/2011/02/24/how-to-be-interesting/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:17:44 +0000 Bob http://bobsouer.com/?p=4956 Copyblogger offers 21 cogent suggestions about how to Be Interesting. My thanks to my friend Larry White for emailing me the link to this article.

]]> http://bobsouer.com/blog/2011/02/24/how-to-be-interesting/feed/ 0 Not on the bandwagon http://bobsouer.com/blog/2011/01/15/not-on-the-bandwagon/ http://bobsouer.com/blog/2011/01/15/not-on-the-bandwagon/#comments Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:17:53 +0000 Bob http://bobsouer.com/blog/2011/01/15/not-on-the-bandwagon/ While I like being part of popular movements and taking part in things that lots of other folks are taking part in, I also have this streak in me that, when it seems like everyone is going a particular direction, I like to take a different path.

You need to take your path. I need to take mine. Lots of the time we’re going to be traveling the same road, sometimes we’ll be heading in directions that have nothing to do with one another. I’m deeply grateful that you read this blog from time to time. Thank you.

When I started blogging nearly six years ago it was with the express purpose to talk about voiceover, which was at the time one of my life-long passions. Also at the time, it was a dream of mine to be working full-time and exclusively as a voiceover. I didn’t have any idea how I might be able to pull that off, with a wife and four children and being the sole “bread-winner” of said family.

But persistence, hard work and divine providence eventually led me (almost 2 years ago now) to leave my corporate job and strike out on this voiceover-only path. One unanticipated consequence of that shift is that it has actually become a bit harder to be consistent about my blogging now that all I’m doing (from a work point of view anyway) is voiceover. To you, my dear reader, I apologize for my inconsistent blogging of late. I will do my best to keep bringing you ideas and performances and people that I think will interest you. And to share with you, now and then, from my own well of experiences.

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]]> http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/11/28/blogging-advice-from-kevin-delaney/feed/ 0 Added to the blogroll http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/11/26/added-to-the-blogroll-8/ http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/11/26/added-to-the-blogroll-8/#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 07:19:00 +0000 Bob http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/11/26/added-to-the-blogroll-8/ With just over a month left to take advantage of the early bird registration price, I urge you (if you’re a working professional voiceover talent) to go to the Faffcon site and sign up for Faffcon2. Do it today. Don’t wait until the last possible minute because you might forget. And as every one of us who attended the first Faffcon can tell you, there’s nothing you could do in February of 2011 that will help accelerate your voiceover business better than by attending the next one in Atlanta taking place the last weekend in February.

Meanwhile, I just discovered that a blog has been added to the Faffcon site, so I’ve added that page to my blogroll.

]]> http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/11/26/added-to-the-blogroll-8/feed/ 2 Added to the blogroll http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/10/23/added-to-the-blogroll-7/ http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/10/23/added-to-the-blogroll-7/#comments Sat, 23 Oct 2010 06:07:00 +0000 Bob http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/10/23/added-to-the-blogroll-7/ I’ve just added the voiceover blog from my friend George Washington III to my blogroll. Welcome, George. Thanks for adding your voice to the blogosphere!

]]> http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/10/23/added-to-the-blogroll-7/feed/ 0 Also added to the blogroll today http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/10/06/also-added-to-the-blogroll-today/ http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/10/06/also-added-to-the-blogroll-today/#comments Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:36:39 +0000 Bob http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/10/06/also-added-to-the-blogroll-today/ My friend Perry Anne Norton sent me a message today to let me know she blogs about voiceover, too.

]]> http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/10/06/also-added-to-the-blogroll-today/feed/ 1 Added to the blogroll today http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/10/06/added-to-the-blogroll-today-15/ http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/10/06/added-to-the-blogroll-today-15/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:56:49 +0000 Bob http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/10/06/added-to-the-blogroll-today-15/ I want to offer my welcome to Mike Harrison as he joins the voiceover blogosphere.

]]> http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/10/06/added-to-the-blogroll-today-15/feed/ 0 Happy Blogiversary Ralph http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/09/22/happy-blogiversary-ralph/ http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/09/22/happy-blogiversary-ralph/#comments Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:08:00 +0000 Bob http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/09/22/happy-blogiversary-ralph/ My friend Ralph Hass has a voiceover blog that turns 4 today, so a very happy Blogiversary to you!

]]> http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/09/22/happy-blogiversary-ralph/feed/ 1 Seach Engines and your site http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/07/06/seach-engines-and-your-site/ http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/07/06/seach-engines-and-your-site/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:05:59 +0000 Bob http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/07/06/seach-engines-and-your-site/ My friends at Fame Foundry have a couple of excellent articles on SEO (search engine optimization) for you. SEO 101, A Plain English Primer is here. SEO 102, 13 Steps to Improve Your Ranking the Right Way is here.

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]]> http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/05/02/added-to-the-blogroll-4/feed/ 0 Added to the blogroll today http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/04/19/added-to-the-blogroll-today-14/ http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/04/19/added-to-the-blogroll-today-14/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:43:43 +0000 Bob http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/04/19/added-to-the-blogroll-today-14/ I have a pretty long blogroll, in case you’ve never noticed. Near the bottom of that very long list is a group called “Other Blogs.” I’ve added one there today called the Beagle Bugle. It’s the official blog of the Wizard Academy. I will be visiting there often. I hope you will too.

]]> http://bobsouer.com/blog/2010/04/19/added-to-the-blogroll-today-14/feed/ 0 If you have a voiceover blog http://bobsouer.com/blog/2009/12/03/if-you-have-a-voiceover-blog/ http://bobsouer.com/blog/2009/12/03/if-you-have-a-voiceover-blog/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:11:00 +0000 Bob http://bobsouer.com/blog/2009/12/03/if-you-have-a-voiceover-blog/ And you’re not listed on the VoiceOverXtra blog link page, you should be. And send me a note too. I’m trying to add every voiceover blog to my blogroll.

]]> http://bobsouer.com/blog/2009/12/03/if-you-have-a-voiceover-blog/feed/ 0 Superb insights about copyright http://bobsouer.com/blog/2009/08/19/superb-insights-about-copyright/ http://bobsouer.com/blog/2009/08/19/superb-insights-about-copyright/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:08:36 +0000 Bob http://bobsouer.com/blog/2009/08/19/superb-insights-about-copyright/ With my thanks to Nancy Wolfson for emailing the link this morning, check out the superb blog post “Your Copyright Questions Answered” by Amy Everhart, Amy is a trademark, copyright and entertainment attorney.

]]> http://bobsouer.com/blog/2009/08/19/superb-insights-about-copyright/feed/ 1 Laugh and the world laughs with you … http://bobsouer.com/blog/2009/07/27/laugh-and-the-world-laughs-with-you/ http://bobsouer.com/blog/2009/07/27/laugh-and-the-world-laughs-with-you/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:28:06 +0000 Bob http://bobsouer.com/blog/2009/07/27/laugh-and-the-world-laughs-with-you/ … Tweet and you …? OK. I’m twisting the old saying to a different purpose than the original. Regardless of what you think of my weak humor, I do hope you’ll take a moment to click through to this excellent commentary by Jeff Sexton about Twitter.

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]]> http://bobsouer.com/blog/2009/07/25/updates-from-comic-con-2009/feed/ 0 An update to the blogroll http://bobsouer.com/blog/2009/07/22/an-update-to-the-blogroll-2/ http://bobsouer.com/blog/2009/07/22/an-update-to-the-blogroll-2/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:07:51 +0000 Bob http://bobsouer.com/blog/2009/07/22/an-update-to-the-blogroll-2/ My friend Connie Terwilliger has launched a voiceover blog so I’ve updated the link on my blogroll with that site. Very nice stuff, Connie. I look forward to reading more of what you have to say.

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