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Voice over Jobs Can Lead to on Camera Acting Castings in the Television Industry

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

If you have ever gotten compliments on your talking voice and feel comfortable reading aloud, then you may desire to look at voice over work as a career. voice over jobs are becoming more predominant than some people might imagine. There are numerous voice over jobs available in the marketplace right now even in this economic downswing. Beginning jobs doing voice work may not pay as much money as some other beginning work, but if you stick with it and gain a reputation for quality work, pretty soon industry people may be searching you out. The ability to speak intelligibly, and interpret how to enunciate the phrases that you are articulating is the first major movement in the right direction for this calling.

Another area where individuals are employed for voice over jobs is for radio and Television advertisements. It does not matter if it is radio or TV, someone had to record the speaking part that you hear. Guess how boring a TV commercials for a car would be without a voice in the background delineating the attributes of the car. Voice over work is even more important for radio commercials. Without voice over talent, products and businesses could not be advertised on the radio, since radio is exclusively sound. You can occasionally even hear variegated voices in advertisements that are becoming more and more common online. Without a voice over actor, there would be nothing for you to hear.

Online Distribution of Press Releases

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

The success of your press release is largely determined by how it is going to be distributed. You must make sure that the distribution of your press release is optimized because no matter how well the formulation of your press release is, it won’t serve its purpose if few people will know about it. Make sure that you are distributing your press release to the right journalists and/or reporters as well — if you have written a very good press release on politics, don’t expect that a sports journalist will pick your story up.

A very effective avenue for your press release distribution is by using the Internet as a medium of dissemination. You can send your press release to identified media targets through email or you can also subscribe to a company that provides online press release distribution service. These online distribution service companies have a wide network of contacts. Your press release will then be circulated to various online channels, usually through RSS feeds.

What’s good about distributing through online news outlets is that your press release will not only be accessible to journalists, but it will also be accessible to direct consumers. There are actually several websites that offer press release distribution services to writers. PRWeb Direct for example, can help you distribute your press release to the appropriate media target. Their database contains around 100,000 contacts or journalists. PR Leap is another press release distribution services provider that can help your press release be circulated in different channels such as Yahoo!, Google Search, Ask.com, and MSN. PR Newswire is another leading news distribution services company that has extensive coverage of the massive network of online media outlets worldwide.

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Truth In Cruises – Do You Get What You Paid For?

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

If you were to save up for a “cruise of a lifetime”, that you are an experience that will “exceed your expectations”, and which is “like no vacation on earth”, aren’t you being set up for disappointment?

Nowadays, the advertising that cruise lines use sets us up expectations for perfection……or at least suggest that everything we think a cruise should be will be realized. On the other side of the coin is the reality. Very often cruisers have been served food with shards of glass, been in a cabin next to a member of the casino staff who would blare the tv at 3AM, been given air tickets that return
them to a different city than from where they leave. It’s really bad service.

Have you been on a cruise with minimal air conditioning, had a company forget to provide the transportation from a precruise package to the ship. In each of these cases, sometimes the companies involved have not responded to these problems in appropriate ways. If you change your attitude, will the bus that doesn’t show up all of a sudden appear? We certainly think not.

While one’s expectations need to be realistic, many cruisers have appear to be willing to accept things that some would find intolerable — cold food is not an attitude problem; poached eggs that have been
cooked-refrigerated-then dumped in hot water before serving (a common practice on cruise ships — it explains why the eggs on eggs benedict are hard) are no better when one has a “fun” attitude; insulting
comments by cruise staff because one doesn’t want to play their games is not the fault of the passengers; and a company taking the robes from a cabin the last night of the cruise (ostensibly so they can be cleaned, though we all know it is because they don’t want them stolen) does not change because of a difference in attitude.

If a company says they will exceed my expectations – I am sure you want your expectations to be exceeded… Isn’t this truth in advertising? Would you buy any other product that makes promises that you know will not be realized and walk away happy — after all, it is just your attitude?? We
truly wonder……..