Life on the Voiceover List
Tips and Thoughts on Voice Acting
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Randye Kaye has over 20 years of experience as a voice talent, stage/TV/film actress, and radio personality, with a long list of major clients.
The 3 F-words That Sabotage Your VO Productivity: Fear, Freezing and Facebook
…or why I probably won’t be wishing you happy birthday on Facebook anymore (unless you are family). Apologies in advance. I love you anyway. Every Monday Morning, and once a month in two other cases, I log onto google hangouts and meet with my voiceover mastermind peeps. These groups were born at faffcon and WoVO […]
Are There Too Many Voice Talents?
Reality check, with a question: Do you find it more difficult than you’d thought it would be to get, and keep getting, work as a voice talent in 2015? I’m not one to wax poetic about the past. Change is, at best, exciting; at the very least, it’s inevitable. And certainly the voiceover business has […]
The Voice Actor's "Down Time" - Ha!
re the myth of "downtime " for voice talents, i.e. between bookings: there is none. Other than vacations and "personal days", these are really the times we must be building our business and our skills.
VoiceOver Copy: Your High School Play, on Speed
There are a lot of surprises for aspiring voice talents who cross my path either as a student via Edge Studio, or just at, say, a party. You know, the ones with “such a nice voice” who need to read Dave Courvoisier’s book ( or any of the other amazing resources I blogged about a […]
Voice Talents: Go Outside and Play! (and Faffcamp)
For mental and physical health, make room for actual physical contact with other real live humans - and the world outside our sound-dampened spaces. Conferences like Faffcamp, and/or get outside and play!
The Best Laid Plans...are still a good idea
What? Didn't meet all your monthly voiceover goals? Look at what you did get done -both on the checklist and off it. Transfer those "un-done" tasks to the next month - and celebrate what happened instead.
The Full-Time Eclectic Voice Talent: Many Eggs, Several Baskets
When I created my Voice-Over website with the amazing folks at Artist Upgrade, we wrestled with the age-old question (well, for voice talents, anyway): “Just” a Voice Talent, or? More? I opted for the latter. Yes, I am a full-time voice talent. My VO clients are my highest work priority. If you book me, the […]
Fruits vs. Laurels:The Balanced VO Life
Running a voice-over business is not for sissies. Nor is it for dreamers who don't take steps toward the dream. We know we can't just rest on our laurels...but at times, we do need to enjoy the fruits of our labors.
Why I Hired My Plumber: How's Your Voice-Over Business?
Our water heater died last week. Sniff. Not only that, it was kinda leaking everywhere. After two days of hoping my husband’s efforts with the wet-vac would buy us some time (ha!), I knew I had to call in an expert. So what to do? Audition plumbers? Post a project and consider dozens of prospective […]
Value Exceeds Cost: The Designer Voice Talent
"Designer voice talents" make a client's work easier, and the final product something to be really proud of. And that pays off, in many ways, in the long run. That's the value.
Back to Basics: The Fun of Voice Acting
There are so many roles to play in the business of voice-over, it can be hard to get back in touch with the basics - the love of simply bringing words to life. That's the easy fun of it - and the rest? We can find some fun there too.
Frequent Faffers: Why We Can't Wait for Faffcon 5
Two weeks from now I’ll be back with fellow Voice Talents, this time in Charlotte, NC. My name is Randye and I am a frequent faffer. (everybody all together: “Hi, Randye!”) Why? Why spend hard-earned voiceover income on plane fare, hotel lodging, and a registration fee? WIIFM? (“What’s in it for me….?”) Oh, so much. […]
Why I'm Not a Voice Over Superstar- Yet
I recently heard from one of my agents, someone who represents me in Chicago. We hadn’t had any contact in awhile, so I was checking in to see if we should “break up” or not. You know. Weeding. What she said was both reaffirming and a wake-up reminder: The reaffirming part: “You are an amazing […]
Persistence and the Ping-Pong Ball: Voice Over and Business
Planting seeds for the future: article I wrote for Technorati about how book finally got published - and these principles apply to Voice Over as well - or any goal.
Voice 2012: Why Connect in Person?
Sure, Voice Talents communicate all day - but often to imagined listeners, while we are alone in our VO studios. Yes, we have facebook, skype, google + hangouts, twitter, e-mail and (oh yeah) the phone...but there's nothing like gathering together, face-to-face, to learn, laugh, gather inspiration and revel in the collective energy of one of the most amazing work communities ever: voice over professionals.
Voice-Over Customers: Always Right?
Are your voice over clients always "right"? This much I do know. The client has the right to ask you to voice the project any way they want. It is their baby, their vision. And then? Trust leads to more teamwork.
Voice Over Marketing: Front Burner, Back Burner?
Contrary to what some of my friends think, I do not live, breathe and think Voice-overs 24 hours a day. In fact, one of my favorite things about this business (and I've been making a living at it for over 2 decades...yeah, I'm that old...) is that it has given me the flexibility to work in other aspects of my life, as things unfold. And - those things contribute to making me a better, more well-rounded, voice talent.
Voiceovers: That's What I Like About You
So you wanna be in voice overs? Yes. Well, read up, person with that lovely voice. Just check the archives at voiceoverXtra, Edge Studio, or any of the number of fab VO blogs out there, and you'll get the truth: becoming a professional voice over talent takes lots of training, hard work, marketing, creating business goals, scheduling action steps, investments of time and money, and an effort to always think ahead.
That "Second Best" Voice-Over Audition: Still a Win
a good audition is never a loss. While placing second doesn't pay the mortgage or add to your resume, it's still its own kind of good acting karma
Social Media and the Voice Talent
OK, time to cave. Really! Just recorded a job for a client who might have forgotten about me if not for my newsletter updates. My audiobook producer found me on Twitter. I have clients overseas who learned about me on LinkedIn.
Book Randye Kaye for your Project Today!
Randye Kaye has over 20 years of experience as a voice talent, stage/TV/film actress, and radio personality, with a long list of major clients.