Career Advice

Have you ever made a decision about something at the last minute? I certainly have, more than a few times, too. Sometimes things don’t work out all that great, but sometimes those snap decisions turn out to be some of the best you ever make.

This weekend in Charlotte, Faff Camp is taking place. If you’re serious about your voiceover business and you can get yourself to Charlotte, now is the perfect time to make one of those snap decisions.

I truly believe, if you do, and if you put into practice what you learn this weekend, you will make a tremendous leap forward in your voiceover business in the next year. Do it. Come to Faff Camp.

My friend Doug Turkel has assembled a truly superb web page with a ton of great resources and guidance. The page is called Voiceover Talent: Ultimate Business Resources. Where ever you are on your journey, you’ll find good stuff to ponder and consider and use. Highly recommended.

There was a football game played last weekend in New Orleans. If you live in North America, you might have noticed. One of the ladies who has had a profound influence on my work is Marice Tobias. For someone who isn’t a sport fan, she makes a mighty good point in her recent blog post, What I Learned from the Super Bowl – part 1.

My friend Matt Cowlrick narrates this sweet video about what Faff Camp is and how it’s both different from and similar to Faffcon.

My friend Jeffrey Tobin offers some cogent things are life in a blog post provocatively titled You Have No Future. In spite of, or maybe because of, that title I commend it to you, heartily.

I hear from folks from time to time who read this blog and think “I’d like to do that voiceover thing, too.” Some of them have been thinking about that for a long time. Some have been thinking it for only a short while.

Whatever the case, one thing is for sure. If you’re going to make a living doing voiceovers you have to be passionate about doing so. Like any other business venture, and especially a business venture involving some kind of performance, the lows are too low and too frequent to endure if you aren’t passionate about that venture.

With that set-up, I offer this bit of advice about how to find your passion. Read Roy H. Williams’ Monday Morning Memo from May 14, 2012.

Done? Good. There’s nothing more I need to say. You all ready know everything you need to know.

Seth Godin, as you probably know, is a first class writer about business and marketing. His insights are worth your attention every day, but I especially want to point out his blog post from a few days ago called “A hierarchy of business to business needs.” Think about what you’re doing when you’re selling your voiceover services. Are you selling to consumers? Almost never, right? You’re nearly always selling to a business and much of the time, not to the owner of that business.

In light of Seth’s list, linked above, how do you need to adapt your marketing messages?