Happy New Year! Let's get into Voiceovers!

cammie — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0100

We just flipped the calendar over to 2012 and I love that nice feeling of getting to start all over again with a clean slate. A fresh new year is ahead of us and I'm optimistic that it will be a good one. There have been some optimistic signs in the economy and in my state of Calfornia, which has been hit especially hard, we're starting to see an uptick, as well.

Thank you for stopping by my wehsite, by the way. My name is Cammie and I thought it would [...]

Voiceover Training Options Fall 2011

cammie — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Hello,

Checking in to say HI and to give you an update on what's new in voiceovers and the training options available to you this fall and early winter.

HOT areas of voiceover work right now include: infomercials, corporate training videos and anything to do with the world wide web.

Voiceover News June 2011

cammie — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Yes, it's been awhile since you've heard from me. Please know I am not ignoring you and yes, I'm still teaching and coaching voiceover. When it gets really busy around here I must run my business like a hospital's Emergency Room Triage: whatever or whomever is bleeding gets worked on first. Tight time deadlines on projects forced me to put the voiceover newsletter on the ba [...]

Toastmasters Special

cammie — Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:00 +0100

I recently had the pleasure of speaking about the voiceover industry at Toastmasters District 39 Spring Conference held at the Hilton in Sacramento. This is my second speaking engagement with Toastmasters and it was nice to meet both old and new Toastmasters friends .

Of course, How to Break into the Voiceover Business was the title of my speech and I made it interactive so a dozen lucky souls (okay, that is subjective) had the opportunity to do some tongu [...]

Voiceover News Tidbits

cammie — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0100

Are you LinkedIn? Joining LinkedIn is free online and it can help you build your voiceover career and get paying voiceover jobs, as I discovered last week. I am now voicing a series of educational narrations for a company website. LinkedIn can help you build your business!

Another online resource that has delivered some nice paying voiceover jobs is Craigslist. Believ [...]

Upcoming Workshops and Ongoing Voiceover Training

cammie — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0100

April 8, 2011

If being a voiceover artist is a dream of yours, a good place to start is with putting together a home recording studio. And, you'll be suprised at how affordable it can be! Jim Naylor, my colleague, KFBK news anchor and recording studio engineer extraordinaire, will be hosting a 3-hour studio class that will cover the equipment you'll need to do voiceover work from home, the various microphones used in voiceov [...]

How To Break Into the Voiceover Business

cammie — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0100

The voiceover business sure has come a long way since I broke into the biz, which are more years ago than I care to admit. Back in my day it was all about promoting youself to the local production houses and ad agencies in hopes that you could, with time and perseverance, break into the 'good old boys club' and develop a steady stream of paying customers.

It wasn't easy.

Today the business runs in a completely different way and we all must thank the world [...]

Email Voiceover Training is a GREAT way to Improve Voiceover Skills!

cammie — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Improve your voiceover skills, at a very affordable price, with Email Voiceover Training. It is designed for those who already have a home studio and have a bit of beginning voiceover training under your belts. Here's how it works. On the first Monday of the month I will email you a voiceover lesson along with copy to record. You will have a couple days to record it and send me back an mp3 file of the finished commercial. I will [...]

Voice Demo Packages......Simplified and Affordable

cammie — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Effective October 1, 2009

Now....simplified pricing on all voice demos. Basic demo pricing starts at $300. Additional time is available at $100 per hour.

Basic Voice Demo Package: $300.00

A great value!

Includes:

1 hour behind-the-mic, recording copy of your choice
2 hours finished production time.

3 hours total time commitment.

Want help with selecting scripts? Want mo [...]

Recipe for Voiceover Success

cammie — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

We get many calls from people who are interested in getting into the voiceover business. It's an intriguing prospect for people who have been told they have a great voice; maybe they've spent a lot of time reading stories to kids or have made announcements on PA systems and loved it.

It seems like an easy way to make money. And besides, it's just reading outloud, right?

No! No! No! The pros make it sound like it's an easy way to make [...]

The Fabulous Florida Keys

cammie — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Is there anything better than a tropical vacation? Not in my opinion and our favorite tropical destination is the small strip of islands south of Miami known as the Florida Keys.

My first visit to this island chain was in 1979 as a 19 year old college student spending a summer as a nanny, taking care of two little girls, for a Long Island, New York family who just happened to have a vacation home in the Keys.

I've been hooked on the Keys since and my husband Jeff, too, sinc [...]

Join our Voiceovers group!

cammie — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100

We just formed a new group, Voiceovers International, on Facebook for voiceover professionals, audio producers and ad agencies and marketing groups.

The business of voiceovers is growing and changing rapidly and our hope is that our new group will be a forum to connect, share ideas and build relationships.

We'll also post upcoming events, workshops and mixers that we hold at our midtown Sacramento studios.

Everyone is welcome to join...the more [...]

Facebook Addiction

cammie — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

After months and months of being hounded by well-meaning friends I finally bit the bullet and joined Facebook a few weeks ago.

That explains my temporary absence of new blog entries on my website. Sorry. I did not expect Facebook to be so, well, fun. There was no way I would of ever imagined that I'd spend several hours....every day.....just goofing off on Facebook.

Being a hater of learning new technology (hey, I'm a baby boomer, give me a break!) [...]

Frequently Asked Questions

cammie — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0100

What do you do at Voiceovers International?

Audio! And for almost any application....radio, TV, internet, business seminars, training modules, voiceover demo production and much more. Voiceover coaching is also available with Cammie on a one-on-one basis....which is the fastest way to learn and become competitive in the lucrative business of voiceovers.

I've been told that I have a great voice. How do I get started in the voiceover business?

Surprising [...]

A Bread Recipe you'll go Bananas for!

cammie — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Hang on to those mushy bananas hanging out in your fruit bowl and whip up a batch of this banana bread.

This particular recipe is unbelievably good. I gave a loaf of it to Mayo on Saturday when she came in to the office to record Verizon phone system prompts.

Mayo texted me later that day and told me her 2-year-old daughter Mia ate it "like there was no tomorrow". Adults seem to react the same way. It's that good.

I've named the bread fo [...]

The Six Truths About Voiceovers:

cammie — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The world of voiceovers is one of curiosity for many. Think about it. We hear voiceovers everywhere from radio commercials to movie trailers to telephone phone prompts but there is little info out there about the actual business.

Which means we get lots of calls from people asking lots of questions.

"What's it like to work in voiceovers?" How do I get started in the business?" "How much money can I make?"

Today I will [...]

Have you seen my Hormones?

cammie — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

One of my favorite stories is about the time I went to a pizza restaurant and a 50-ish lady in line in front of me was ordering a mushroom and meat pizza. The 16-year-old behind the counter asked her what kind of meat did she want on her pizza? The lady got a puzzled look on her face and said that she couldn't remember what they were called but said that they were round and spicy.

You mean pepperoni?, the suddenly sarcastic teenager quipped.

The lady, now red-faced, said [...]

The Fountain of Youth

cammie — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

As we walked into the tempanyki restaurant I promised my husband Jeff that I would not mention to a soul that it was his birthday. At this particular restaurant the staff likes to come over to your table and sing HAPPY BIRTHDAY (with drums, nonetheless) when they catch wind of these type of celebrations. Which my reserved husband does not enjoy at all.

Food is prepared benihana-style, which means you're seated at large tables with other diners. Strangers. Sometimes they become f [...]

It's My BLOGiversary!

cammie — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Yep, I've been writing this Blog for one year now. I originally started it out of curiosity. I wanted to know: What exactly IS a blog? Why does everyone have one? If everyone else has one....I've got to have one, too!

From what I had been reading on the web, a Blog is a good way of having a platform to voice one's own opinion. A Blog would be my own personal soapbox, so to speak. Who doesn't want that?

Over the last year I've used this soapbox/Blog to talk a [...]

The Importance of Having a Home Recording Studio

cammie — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0100

It used to be, back in the old days (like 5 years ago), that all voiceover work was done in a professional recording studio. The client, producer, engineer and voice talent would all drive to a local recording studio and produce audio.

Nowadays a very high percentage of voiceover work is produced in home studios. In my case a good 80% of all the voice work I do is done in my home studio. Clients love voiceover talents that have home studios as it as it saves them money and time. [...]

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