Welcome to the October 13, 2008 edition of “Voices That Motivate”. This is our inaugural edition and we’re very excited about it. This is where voice actors, voice artists, producers, casting agents, ad agencies, voice coaches, audio engineers and newbies to the industry will find helpful, informational articles relating to our exciting profession of voiceover. This will also be your one-stop for ideas on marketing and branding your voiceover business.

We have assembled some excellent reading herein for you and we hope you’ll pass the word!

We would also welcome hosts for future editions of “Voices That Motivate”. This will take a small bit of your time and prowess, but the reward is all will come to YOUR blog for the edition, drawing more traffic and potential clients to your business.

All right… let’s get started:
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Featured Articles

Peter O’Connell presents Screwing With Your Voiceover Brand | Voxmarketising - the audio’connell blog and podcast posted at voxmarketising - the audio’connell blog and podcast.

Marketing

Dave Courvoisier presents Brain Speedbumps posted at Voice-Acting in Vegas.

Learning & Training

Bob Souer presents Patience | The Voiceover Boblog posted at The Voiceover Boblog.

Bob Souer presents Persistence | The Voiceover Boblog posted at The Voiceover Boblog.

Peter O’Connell presents happiness is a great voice class | voxmarketising - the audio’connell blog and podcast posted at voxmarketising - the audio’connell blog and podcast.

Liz de Nesnera presents I felt like the Energizer Bunny! posted at A Frog in My Throat..or…Un Chat Dans La Gorge!.

Bobbin Beam, ISDN Voice Actress presents Pat Fraley’s Audio Book Course Includes Demo posted at Bobbin’s Blog.

Agencies

Peter O’Connell presents walking away | voxmarketising - the audio’connell blog and podcast posted at voxmarketising - the audio’connell blog and podcast.

Technical

Willie Edwards presents VOMicTest: Build Your Own Sound Absorbing Panels posted at VOMicTest.

Elaine Singer presents Things to Consider When Budgeting for a Voiceover posted at Elaine Singer Sounds Great - Voiceover Blog.

So, You Wanna Be a Voice Talker?

Dave Courvoisier presents [10.19.07] A nOOb’s Advice to Proto-nOObs posted at CourvoBlogArchive.

Happy Hour

Bryan Cox presents Slogans mean Big Bucks posted at Bigbry’s Weblog.

Bryan Cox presents A Funny… Mac Ad ? posted at COX TALKS.
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If you’d be interested in hosting this Blog Carnival, contact me to discuss it. It’s not difficult. Host this Blog Carnival on YOUR blog and drive more traffic to your site and to your business.

And, get those submissions in for Edition #2 of “Speak Easy - Voices That Motivate”. Submission rules are simple, but it’s important that you use the submission form. In other words, do not e-mail me the permalinks to your articles/posts.