Author Archives: Great Voice

How To Keep In Touch with Voice Over Postcards

  Want to know a great, inexpensive way to stay top-of-mind with your voice over prospects and clients? Postcards!   Here’s why they work so well: When voice buyers have a voice-over to cast, they sometimes don’t have time to hassle with an audition and listen to tens, if not hundreds of submissions. They might…

How to Add LOVE to Your Auditions and Book More Work

  How to Add LOVE to Your Auditions and Book More Work By Susan Berkley   It’s Valentine’s Day as I write this and I’m thinking about the most important question you can ask yourself as you prepare to audition: “Where is the love?” I’ll explain. Drama is all about relationships, what happens between the…

How To Calm Your Nerves Behind the Mic: It’s Not What You Think

  How To Calm Your Nerves Behind the Mic: It’s Not What You Think By Susan Berkley   Does the microphone make you nervous? Many people tell me it does. They say they’ve been dreaming about a voice over career and want it more than anything else. Yet when they actually start to perform they…

How Special Are You?

  How Special Are You? By Susan Berkley Today my mission is to save you from an innocent beginner’s mistake that could cost you years in your path to voice over success. It’s a common, but near fatal error many people make before they even start their training and do their voice over demo. But…

3 Things I Know Now That I Wish I’d Known Then

 3 Things I Know Now That I Wish I’d Known Then By Susan Berkley This year I celebrate a milestone-25 years in business! At the risk of sounding like an old fogey, its seems like just yesterday when I quit my job in radio as a traffic reporter on The Howard Stern Show to go…

How Do I know If I Really Need A Voice Over Coach?

 How Do I know If I Really Need A Voice Over Coach? By Susan Berkely   America is a nation of do-it-yourself’ers. Most homes have a peg board in the basement or garage hung with tools. Some people like to sketch around their tools like crime scene chalk marks to make sure that hammer is…

The 10 Commandments of Voice Over

 The 10 Commandments of Voice Over By Susan Berkley Is there a list of rules to follow to improve your chances of voice over success? I think so! After many years of experience, here are mine. I respect and care for my instrument (and my body). I get enough sleep, and enough exercise, eat healthily…

How to Develop Voice Over Chops

 How to Develop Voice Over Chops by Susan Berkley Ever heard of the term “chops”? The dictionary defines chops as the technical skill with which a jazz or rock musician performs. But I think it applies to voice over too. So what are voice over chops and how can we develop them? I’ve identified 6…

Emergency Help for an Inarticulate Spouse

 Emergency Help for an Inarticulate Spouse By Susan Berkley VoiceCoach subscriber Mary writes: “My husband has an extremely poor vocabulary and a 70′s dialect. I find his constant pronunciation errors embarrassing, for him as well as myself. I often worry about what people really think. He’s a professional who meets with other professionals and homeowners…

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