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Many thanks to my friend and mentor Peter O’Connell for giving me the heads-up to this site via the VO-BB.  (see?  all the good stuff comes from there!)

Peter’s original post was a query as to who was behind this site: Voices of Advertising, and the answer came back that it was likely Chuck Brown (at least that’s what a WhoIs search of the website turned up — thanks Doc.).

The site seems to be a re-purposing of other’s posts, blogs, notices, and announcements in the world of VO…and when you get right down to it…I do a lot of that too.   We all have different sets of eyes looking around…what does it hurt to disseminate the message a bit further?

My thanks to DB Cooper – Board Czar of the VO-BB  — for creating the finest community of voice-actors on the web.

CourVO

(promise yourself that you’ll read to the bottom of this blog….it is absolutely, positively worth it)

Now that I’ve had my website re-designed (really!…take a look HERE!) by the capable House of Hancock in Henderson, Nevada…I’ve…well…. I’ve got a newly re-designed website.

What I mean is…it’s pretty, and it’s out there with how many other websites?

156-million as of Jan ‘08, according to Digital Inspiration.

Sure, it’s a place I can send prospective clients and other interested parties to hear my demos and find out more about me, but is it practical as a marketing tool?

Ah…good question..!!! 

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No one likes to hear their hard-earned demo is just so-so.  However, that may indeed be the feedback you get from those whom you've ASKED to give their honest opinion.

Performers need thick skins.  We also tend to err on the side of slightly egotistical, so it hurts to hear there's something bad about our work.  Yet, in the end, we can be better, IF we survive.

Doc Phillips has written a wonderful blog about just that.  Click HERE to read.  Right on the nose, Doc!  Thanks for the words…words of experience and perspective I'm sure.

CourVO