Life is busy. Between having or building a career in voiceover, caring for family, spending time with friends, and general household responsibilities, it’s easy to let little tasks or ideas that might help you grow your voiceover business slip onto a never-ending to-do list, or disappear from sight and mind altogether.
The daily grind as a VO is challenging enough. Audition, audition, audition….market, market, market….and, if you’re lucky, bookings, bookings, bookings. Add administrative and accounting tasks to that mix, and it’s hard to think about the small things that might help you add revenue.
Lately, I’ve started keeping an organized list of the stray ideas or side projects I’m working on in order to make sure they don’t get lost for eternity. Moreover, I’ve committed to doing at least one of them each day after my initial morning sweep of emails, client work, and auditions. It’s helped me have a more productive start to my year.
What’s on my list this week? Building an IMDB Pro page, (I’ve been incredibly remiss in never paying IMDB any attention, and I hardly have a footprint,) updating my master client contact list with new clients from December and January, working on my upcoming book, (which is almost done!,) creating a niche demo for Christmas-themed radio imaging, and looking at using additional Twitter screen names to drive client traffic. All this in addition to a sustained campaign targeting small and regional market agents for new representation in parts of the country where I’m not currently represented.
Most days, I’ll spend about thirty minutes on whatever task I’ve chosen. Progress isn’t always instant, but it is steady and the tasks ultimately get done. When they do, I have the satisfaction of having added one more small piece to the grand puzzle that sustains a thriving business.
So, what’s on your list to grow your voiceover business this week?
I love the way you do business. Your passion and wisdom shines through. My number one goal this year, is being more visible to clients worldwide. I'm going to achieve this by working with my web developer on better SEO and am also with VoiceZam which will help with the SEO quite a bit! As far as auditions, I'm doing no less than 20 a day. I know that the more doors you knock on, the more likely the right project is on the other side of that door. I need to update my master client list, get a radio imaging, promo and narration demo done, and keep on surrounding myself with people who are positive, passionate, real and go-getters…like you!! 🙂 Thank you for your invaluable words of wisdom and accountability. ~Michelle