Everyday VOpreneur® with Marc Scott

Do you have a plan for 2023? Have you taken any time to set goals for yourself for the coming year? Or are you going to wing it? See what happens? Hope for the best?

The most successful VOpreneurs are the ones who don't leave anything to chance. The set goals. They make plans. They have accountability. They measure results.

Let this episode inspire you in making your own plans for success in 2023.

* Special thanks to Julie Waters and Haeley Porter for their stories. *

More voice over tips on YouTube at youtube.com/@marcscott

Marc Scott on Instagram - @marcscott

RESOURCES

* 20 Video Ideas for TikTok and Instagram (FREE DOWNLOAD) 

* Get an instant $25 credit when you sign up for VoiceZam

* Need a little marketing help? Download a FREE eBook - 5 Steps to Marketing Like a VOpreneur Download now at https://marcscottcoaching.com/5marketingstepsebook

* For voice over services:

* Want VOpreneur Swag?

* Join the VOpreneur Facebook Group

EVERYDAY VOPRENEURS IN THIS EPISODE

* Thanks to "Uncle Roy" for production assistance!

* Thanks to Christy Harst for VO contributions!

* Thanks to Krysta Wallrauch for VO contributions!

If you need guidance with your voice over business or learning how to more effectively market, I can help. Book a 15 minute free consultation with me to discuss your specific needs. Book Your Consult

Setting goals is essential to the success of any VOpreneur. But just simply setting them isn't enough. You also need to have a plan for how you're going to achieve them. What steps will you take? What will your strategy be? How will you track progress and measure results?

Marc Scott on Instagram - @marcscott

RESOURCES

* 20 Video Ideas for TikTok and Instagram (FREE DOWNLOAD) 

* Get an instant $25 credit when you sign up for VoiceZam

* Need a little marketing help? Download a FREE eBook - 5 Steps to Marketing Like a VOpreneur Download now at https://marcscottcoaching.com/5marketingstepsebook

* For voice over services:

* Want VOpreneur Swag?

* Join the VOpreneur Facebook Group

EVERYDAY VOPRENEURS IN THIS EPISODE

* Thanks to "Uncle Roy" for production assistance!

* Thanks to Christy Harst for VO contributions!

* Thanks to Krysta Wallrauch for VO contributions!

If you need guidance with your voice over business or learning how to more effectively market, I can help. Book a 15 minute free consultation with me to discuss your specific needs. Book Your Consult

The end of the year is a great time for reflection. Looking back at your business with hindsight to see your successes and failures. Goals achieved and lessons learned.

That's exactly what this episode is about. I reached out to a few Everyday VOpreneurs and asked them to share stories about the lessons they've learned in 2022. Hopefully some of the things they've learned will be inspiring for you as well.

Marc Scott on Instagram - @marcscott

RESOURCES

* 20 Video Ideas for TikTok and Instagram (FREE DOWNLOAD) 

* Get an instant $25 credit when you sign up for VoiceZam

* Need a little marketing help? Download a FREE eBook - 5 Steps to Marketing Like a VOpreneur Download now at https://marcscottcoaching.com/5marketingstepsebook

* For voice over services:

* Want VOpreneur Swag?

* Join the VOpreneur Facebook Group

EVERYDAY VOPRENEURS IN THIS EPISODE

* Thanks to "Uncle Roy" for production assistance!

* Thanks to Christy Harst for VO contributions!

* Thanks to Krysta Wallrauch for VO contributions!

If you need guidance with your voice over business or learning how to more effectively market, I can help. Book a 15 minute free consultation with me to discuss your specific needs. Book Your Consult

What is NAVA (National Association of Voice Actors), and why should you be paying attention?

In the last few weeks you've likely seen posts about NAVA popping up all over social media. Odds are, it's left you with a lot of questions. What is it? What do they do? What's in it for me? Why should I join? Do we need another association, etc? 

In this episode I sit down with NAVA Founder and President Tim Friedlander and ask him all the questions people have been asking me about NAVA, and a few others that were on my mind. I'm confident by the end of this episode you'll have a much clearer picture of what NAVA is, and I'm guessing you're going to want to join.

Marc Scott on Instagram - @marcscott

RESOURCES

* 20 Video Ideas for TikTok and Instagram (FREE DOWNLOAD) 

* Get an instant $25 credit when you sign up for VoiceZam

* Need a little marketing help? Download a FREE eBook - 5 Steps to Marketing Like a VOpreneur Download now at https://marcscottcoaching.com/5marketingstepsebook

* For voice over services:

* Want VOpreneur Swag?

* Join the VOpreneur Facebook Group

EVERYDAY VOPRENEURS IN THIS EPISODE

* Thanks to "Uncle Roy" for production assistance!

* Thanks to Christy Harst for VO contributions!

* Thanks to Krysta Wallrauch for VO contributions!

If you need guidance with your voice over business or learning how to more effectively market, I can help. Book a 15 minute free consultation with me to discuss your specific needs. Book Your Consult

To join the union or not to join the union? For some voice actors, that is the question. But maybe it doesn't have to be. Because, maybe you could go Fi-Core (Financial Core) and have the best of both worlds. The ability to record union voice over work, but not have to give up any of the bread and butter non-union work that keeps many of us in the booth day-to-day.

Lisa Ristau is a very successful agent and the owner of Impressive Talent. She agreed to share some of her insights, wisdom and perspective as an agent on the subject of Fi-Core. If you've got questions or concerns, hopefully they'll be addressed in this interview.

Marc Scott on Instagram - @marcscott

RESOURCES

* 20 Video Ideas for TikTok and Instagram (FREE DOWNLOAD) 

* Get an instant $25 credit when you sign up for VoiceZam

* Need a little marketing help? Download a FREE eBook - 5 Steps to Marketing Like a VOpreneur Download now at https://marcscottcoaching.com/5marketingstepsebook

* For voice over services:

* Want VOpreneur Swag?

* Join the VOpreneur Facebook Group

EVERYDAY VOPRENEURS IN THIS EPISODE

* Thanks to "Uncle Roy" for production assistance!

* Thanks to Christy Harst for VO contributions!

* Thanks to Krysta Wallrauch for VO contributions!

If you need guidance with your voice over business or learning how to more effectively market, I can help. Book a 15 minute free consultation with me to discuss your specific needs. Book Your Consult

Have you ever thought about working as a virtual assistant for established voice actors? Do you have any voice over adjacent skills you could offer (and trust me, you do... you'll see in this episode).

Miranda Ellis started her voice over journey working as a virtual assistant for three different voice actors. That provided her with steady income while allowing her the flexibility to pursue her own voice over career goals. 

Marc Scott on Instagram - @marcscott

This episode is sponsored by VOcation Conference. Learn about VOcation Cancun happening February 9-12, 2023. Details at https://vocationconference.com

RESOURCES

* 20 Video Ideas for TikTok and Instagram (FREE DOWNLOAD) 

* Get an instant $25 credit when you sign up for VoiceZam

* Need a little marketing help? Download a FREE eBook - 5 Steps to Marketing Like a VOpreneur Download now at https://marcscottcoaching.com/5marketingstepsebook

* For voice over services:

* Want VOpreneur Swag?

* Join the VOpreneur Facebook Group

EVERYDAY VOPRENEURS IN THIS EPISODE

* Thanks to "Uncle Roy" for production assistance!

* Thanks to Christy Harst for VO contributions!

* Thanks to Krysta Wallrauch for VO contributions!

If you need guidance with your voice over business or learning how to more effectively market, I can help. Book a 15 minute free consultation with me to discuss your specific needs. Book Your Consult

Social media can be a powerful tool for reaching a global audience with your marketing messages about your voice over business. It can also be a source of stress, anxiety and even fear.

So knowing you should use it, how can you use it if you have that fear? Bonnie Marie Williams offers up tons of insights and practical advice for how we can take the fear out of social media and embrace these platforms and tools for what they can be and for what they can do for our voice over businesses.

Marc Scott on Instagram - @marcscott

This episode is sponsored by VOcation Conference. Learn about VOcation Cancun happening February 9-12, 2023. Details at https://vocationconference.com

RESOURCES

* 20 Video Ideas for TikTok and Instagram (FREE DOWNLOAD) 

* Get an instant $25 credit when you sign up for VoiceZam

* Need a little marketing help? Download a FREE eBook - 5 Steps to Marketing Like a VOpreneur Download now at https://marcscottcoaching.com/5marketingstepsebook

* For voice over services:

* Want VOpreneur Swag?

* Join the VOpreneur Facebook Group

EVERYDAY VOPRENEURS IN THIS EPISODE

* Thanks to "Uncle Roy" for production assistance!

* Thanks to Christy Harst for VO contributions!

* Thanks to Krysta Wallrauch for VO contributions!

If you need guidance with your voice over business or learning how to more effectively market, I can help. Book a 15 minute free consultation with me to discuss your specific needs. Book Your Consult

Writing voice over marketing emails is hard enough of a task on it's own without having to worry about whether or not those emails are ever actually landing in the inbox of the desired recipient.

There are things you can do when writing emails to help keep them out of the dreaded spam folder and get them into the inbox. Some of the red flags are a bit technical, but many of them are content related. It could be as matter of simply changing your subject line or cleaning up your email signature.

In this episode, Brad Newman of Upper Level Hosting does a great job of breaking it all down, and doing it in the least technical way possible. At the end of the interview, he even introduces a tool that will help you check the score of your email address.

Mail Check Tool - https://mailchecktool.com

Upper Level Hosting - https://upperlevelhosting.com

Marc Scott on Instagram - @marcscott

This episode is sponsored by VOcation Conference. Learn about VOcation Cancun happening February 9-12, 2023. Details at https://vocationconference.com

RESOURCES

* 20 Video Ideas for TikTok and Instagram (FREE DOWNLOAD) 

* Get an instant $25 credit when you sign up for VoiceZam

* Need a little marketing help? Download a FREE eBook - 5 Steps to Marketing Like a VOpreneur Download now at https://marcscottcoaching.com/5marketingstepsebook

* For voice over services:

* Want VOpreneur Swag?

* Join the VOpreneur Facebook Group

EVERYDAY VOPRENEURS IN THIS EPISODE

* Thanks to "Uncle Roy" for production assistance!

* Thanks to Christy Harst for VO contributions!

* Thanks to Krysta Wallrauch for VO contributions!

If you need guidance with your voice over business or learning how to more effectively market, I can help. Book a 15 minute free consultation with me to discuss your specific needs. Book Your Consult

We all think that cybersecurity breaches won't happen to us. That's stuff that only happens to big corporations and other people. Here's the thing... is it worth the risk to just assume you'll always be safe? I don't think so.

You're running a business as a voice actor, and that means part of your responsibility as a VOpreneur is protecting that business and the data that goes along with it. Doing that... protecting yourself from cyber threats, can actually be easier than you might realize.

Reid Montague offers up plenty of actionable steps you can take today that will make your business and data more secure tomorrow.

Reid Montague - https://www.montaguevo.com/

RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

Consumer Reports Security Planner - https://securityplanner.consumerreports.org/

Stay Safe Online - https://staysafeonline.org/

Consumer Reports VPN Testing - Click here

1Password - https://1password.com/

Marc Scott on Instagram - @marcscott

This episode is sponsored by VOcation Conference. Learn about VOcation Cancun happening February 9-12, 2023. Details at https://vocationconference.com

RESOURCES

* 20 Video Ideas for TikTok and Instagram (FREE DOWNLOAD) 

* Get an instant $25 credit when you sign up for VoiceZam

* Need a little marketing help? Download a FREE eBook - 5 Steps to Marketing Like a VOpreneur Download now at https://marcscottcoaching.com/5marketingstepsebook

* For voice over services:

* Want VOpreneur Swag?

* Join the VOpreneur Facebook Group

EVERYDAY VOPRENEURS IN THIS EPISODE

* Thanks to "Uncle Roy" for production assistance!

* Thanks to Christy Harst for VO contributions!

* Thanks to Krysta Wallrauch for VO contributions!

If you need guidance with your voice over business or learning how to more effectively market, I can help. Book a 15 minute free consultation with me to discuss your specific needs. Book Your Consult

The voice over industry was excited to get their very own awards show when the Voice Arts Awards came on the scene in 2014. Since then, countless voice actors have had a spotlight shone on their excellent work and the industry as a whole has received recognition it deserves.

There's more to SOVAS than just the awards though. In this episode, I speak with SOVAS President and CEO Rudy Gaskins to get a better understanding of what SOVAS is all about. We talk charity, the future of the awards, That's Voiceover conference and more.

Website - https://sovas.org

Marc Scott on Instagram - @marcscott

RESOURCES

* One Piece of Advice Free eBook https://marcscottcoaching.com/onepieceofadviceebook/

* Get an instant $25 credit when you sign up for VoiceZam

* Need a little marketing help? Download a FREE eBook - 5 Steps to Marketing Like a VOpreneur Download now at https://marcscottcoaching.com/5marketingstepsebook

* For voice over services:

* Want VOpreneur Swag?

* Join the VOpreneur Facebook Group

EVERYDAY VOPRENEURS IN THIS EPISODE

* Thanks to "Uncle Roy" for production assistance!

* Thanks to Christy Harst for VO contributions!

* Thanks to Krysta Wallrauch for VO contributions!

If you need guidance with your voice over business or learning how to more effectively market, I can help. Book a 15 minute free consultation with me to discuss your specific needs. Book Your Consult