{"id":9880,"date":"2018-01-11T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T06:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/?p=9880"},"modified":"2018-01-11T01:00:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T06:00:36","slug":"how-to-market-voice-over-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/11\/how-to-market-voice-over-production\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Market Yourself to Voice-Over Production Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/395403405&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/center><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marketing yourself to voice-over production companies is another great way to find opportunities that can help you grow your voice-over career. Production companies work hard to find multiple clients and they handle anything from explainer videos to commercials to documentaries, depending on their focus. If you are one of their preferred voice-over actors, you can have one production company as your client and get multiple gigs from that same voice-over production company! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9881 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/marketing-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"voice-over production\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>Here are the steps you need to know about how to market yourself to a voice-over production company:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><b><b>Find out who and where they are. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The internet is your best friend. Google \u201cproduction companies near me\u201d or \u201cproduction companies in [your state].\u201d Because we are not limited by geography, you can search \u201cproduction companies in [whatever geographical location you wish].\u201d You can also search companies on LinkedIn to find out more information about them. Make sure that your LinkedIn profile is on point and up to date if that\u2019s how you choose to contact them.<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><b>Do your research on each production company you want to contact.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Click on each website link that appears on your Google search and see if they have any available work for a voice-over actor. Find something in their portfolio that you really connect with, maybe it\u2019s a project they produced that you really like. If you don\u2019t like what they do, don\u2019t feel like you have to contact them \u2013<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">life\u2019s too short to work with clients that you don\u2019t really want to work with!<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><b>Contact the owner or creative director.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Either one of these people may be in charge of hiring voice-over talent. You can call or email them (if you\u2019re lucky, you\u2019ll sometimes be able to get a direct email address on their website). When you contact them, tell them who you are and what you do. Tell them that you really liked the work they did on a specific project. This way they know you\u2019ve done some research on them. Mention that you like to work with companies that put out quality work and that you\u2019d like to offer your voice as a resource for them for future projects. You can send them your demos as soon as possible so they can see if your voice fits their needs.<\/span><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Follow up.<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It isn\u2019t enough to contact a company once. Don\u2019t be afraid to be persistent and put yourself out there. It\u2019s helpful to create a follow-up schedule so you know when to reach out to production companies again and give them enough time to process each email you send their way. You can find some tips in my previous blog about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/2018\/01\/04\/how-to-follow-up-voice-over-clients-agencies\/\">how to follow up with voice-over clients and agencies<\/a>. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Production companies need voice-over actors, it might as well be you! The best thing you can do is to research the production company you are contacting and get to know more about them. It shows that you\u2019re genuinely interested in working with them. A little work on the front end will set you apart from the myriad voice-over actors that send out form cover letters trying to get business. I hope these steps will help you get closer to adding some production companies to your client list!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/my.suchavoice.com\/vo-pro-membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">VO Pro Membership<\/a>\u00a0and the Such A Voice\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/blog\/\">blog<\/a>\u00a0for more content like this!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9637 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jillian-nielsen-1a-1-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"181\" \/>Jillian Nielsen is an expressive voice talent with over 14 years of experience in radio and television commercial and promotional voice-overs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffMarketing yourself to voice-over production companies is another great way to find opportunities that can help you grow your voice-over career. Production companies work hard to find multiple clients and they handle anything from explainer videos to commercials to documentaries, &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"How to Market Yourself to Voice-Over Production Companies\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/11\/how-to-market-voice-over-production\/#more-9880\" aria-label=\"Read more about How to Market Yourself to Voice-Over Production Companies\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3332,"featured_media":20609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"slim_seo":{"title":"How to Market Yourself to Voice-Over Production Companies","description":"Learn from voice-over professional and Such A Voice coach about how to market yourself to voice-over production companies!"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[326,420,46,50,82,421],"popup":[],"class_list":["post-9880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voice-over-marketing","category-voice-over-tips","tag-jillian-nielsen","tag-production","tag-such-a-voice","tag-voice-over","tag-voice-over-marketing","tag-voice-over-production","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"mb":[],"acf":[],"mfb_rest_fields":["title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9880"},{"taxonomy":"popup","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suchavoice.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/popup?post=9880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}