All hail the Interweb! (tee-hee!) With its world attain, the Web provides us voiceover gurus the chance to department out and talk on a degree by no means seen earlier than in historical past. It is superb to assume that simply 20 years in the past, nobody even knew what the Web was or what it will imply to society. And now have a look at us. What would we do with out it? Effectively, one of many issues we voice skills would not be capable to do is promote ourselves internationally.
This know-how permits us to point out our voiceover expertise to potential purchasers world wide, however be warned It may be difficult and it is not one thing you will wish to dive into unarmed. One of many issues to contemplate upfront is, are you able to crank out voice over initiatives in numerous languages? In that case, you’ve gotten a giant edge over the remainder. Promoting for voice providers in a number of languages to a number of international locations can increase your earnings exponentially.
If customary American English is all you communicate, nevertheless, there is a good likelihood you’ll be able to snag a well-paying worldwide voice over consumer. The reason being that English is spoken so broadly, many firms outdoors the US frequently search voiceover skills with American accents. That is nice information, however how do you get to them?
Easy — seek the advice of the Interweb! Use the Web to fish round for overseas companies which may be trying or have use for an American accent. Give it some thought… there are tons of People and English-speaking people dwelling or working in other places world wide. Whoever they’re working for wants to succeed in out to them in mass communication model occasionally. Retail and repair shops in these overseas lands want to succeed in them as effectively. Get the image? There’s cash to be made outdoors the U.S. for the brave voiceover expertise.
As soon as you discover these firms, do that. Ship your voice demo through e-mail and comply with up with them to search out out if they’ll use you. If they do not proper then, you’ll have at the least put the bug of their ear and once they do have a necessity for an American voice expertise, guess who they’re going to name? Create web sites on your worldwide voice over providers and optimize them accordingly. While you ship them your demo, present a hyperlink to your voiceover website so that they know you are severe {and professional} (not simply an beginner in search of extra money).
One factor to be careful for, nevertheless, is that you just have to be cautious and do your homework. Although English is broadly identified and acknowledged, the identical phrases can carry completely totally different meanings in different international locations. For instance, the place in America a expertise may use the phrase, “voice over,” a buyer in one other sovereign nation may say “voice actor” and “voice over” could not have a lot that means to them. So, it is necessary to search out out the correct business terminology in that nation, in any other case chances are you’ll not get any purchasers… simply confusion once they see your web site. In order to not offend, you might also wish to do a small quantity of studying on the nation you are aiming for. Easy issues like a wave “hiya” in America could possibly be offensive to somebody from one other a part of the world (be delicate). One other process you will want to finish is discovering out what the going fee is for voiceover providers in that area. Search for different Female Voice acting skills and analysis their charges. You will not wish to frighten potential purchasers away by charging greater than the home-grown expertise. It is also a good suggestion to be taught concerning the nation’s accepted technical specs, so you will be aware of essentially the most prevalent audio file codecs in that area.
