by Mike Christensen | Apr 25, 2022 | Business, Marketing and Motivation, Voice Over
Voiceover is a funny business. When you tell someone that you’re a voice actor, normally the first three responses are, in this order: What is voiceover?(after explaining) Oh! Well what have a heard you in?And, “hey do a voice!” When I got into...
by Mike Christensen | Apr 15, 2022 | Business, Marketing and Motivation
What does your great great great Grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, Kurt Kobain, David Bowie, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Ted Bundy have in common? In this instance the obvious answer is the correct one. They’re all dead. Not to sound morbid this morning or to bring...
by Mike Christensen | Apr 7, 2022 | Business, Marketing and Motivation, News & Updates, social media
April 2022 marks the 10 year anniversary of my beginning in this crazy business we call voice over. My original plan for my life was very different. My first real job was cleaning kennels at a local veterinarian. It was crappy work, pardon the pun (or not). I decided...
by Mike Christensen | Mar 21, 2022 | Business, Marketing and Motivation
Perhaps there are times where you look around and what you’re doing and where you are in life and ask yourself, am I happy? I’m sure we’ve all been there a time or two. We take a long look at our jobs or our relationships and really get down to it....
by Mike Christensen | Feb 2, 2022 | Business, Marketing and Motivation, social media
Rejection is a way of life in voice over, or any entertainment business really. How many stories have we seen of actors who have gone on audition after audition after audition only to have the door slammed in their face until that one audition hits and they were off...
by Mike Christensen | Dec 9, 2021 | Business, Marketing and Motivation
2021 is coming to a close, and you’ve had a pretty good year, business-wise. You’re thinking about 2022, but wait! You may be a voice talent and an artist and a creative and all that, but you’re a business first. If you want to succeed, you need to...