Category: Business

Small business, big business, startups, entrepreneurship, professional self-improvement, benchmarks, networking, etc

  • The toughest part of designing for my own projects is choosing. I’m never really, really satisfied.

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  • I was a long day preparing documents for the Voc Rehab Program. The literature on the program reads like it’s extremely promising. But the process of getting approved feels like preparing for family court. ..hmm I really thought I’d have something positive today. Well, I kinda do. A friend called me today about some work…

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  • I made a lot of headway on Voices.com today. No, I haven’t booked a gig yet, but I talked with my account manager today. For 45 minutes, we walked through every section of my profile and demos to optimize the details. In the end, I had info on demo creating and labeling, best descriptors of…

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  • Say More Multimedia Marketing might have it’s first gig. Will be doing photos and setting up a livestream for a weightlifting meet. I’m looking forward to the Canon M50 beginning to pay for itself. The event is this Saturday.

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  • Still waiting on bites from voice over auditions. Streamlined the process of knocking out multiple auditions. I mean I’m streamlining. I’m setup the gain and peak to make sure I’m hitting -15db. Then I go through the Spectral Frequency meter and pull mouth clicks, weird breathes, and nose breathes. I chop off the front and…

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  • This week has been busy. Not busy in most of the ways I had planned. For example, I will be skipping the weekly blog post this week (again). As long as it doesn’t happen twice in a row – says James Clear, the author of Atomic Habits. I did get to talk to my Web…

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  • That’s the craziest coincidence. I was recently loathing about not having online business seeking friends. Then on Instagram, I find a friend I was stationed with in Germany who’s been doing the exact same online business – web and graphic design – successfully for the last six years. Seriously crazy. I’ve been doing my best…

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  • I leaped and submitted auditions in Voices.com today. I set the target of 10 auditions and got 9. I’m good with that. We’ll see what happens. I expect to get picked up about 1 in 40. That’s because I’ve been listening to podcasts from other actors registered on the site. I gather that a good…

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  • I’m excited about doors opening. I got a chance to network with an entrepreneur in Canada. And even getting set up for the courtesy consult was a little bit nerve-racking. It was like ‘what questions do I ask?’. How do I keep from geeking out and being super technical about their business? I put myself…

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