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Then, there was business from companies who spent piles of money hiring garbage talent off P2P sites, needing to re-record their projects. Clients looking for “quality” voiceover on these websites were ultimately disappointed. So, they’d run a search for “professional voice talent” and find me.

I was correct in this assumption and as history revealed, Voice123 served as a springboard for my business. Of course, one cannot “buy” voiceover talent like they would a subscription to a website. Suddenly, instead of dealing with 150 or so voice talent for competition, I was dealing with thousands – virtually overnight. 6 months later, the hammer came down and everyone hooked on that monkey had to pay to get their fix of voiceover leads.

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They started by offering free memberships. That, and I was at the top of search results for keywords associated with voiceover. I was only one offering any information regarding the “online” business of VO. I quickly discovered that pretty much all my intellectual property on the business was plagiarized. In 2003, the P2P (Pay to Play) voiceover website Voice123 launched and with it, the beginnings of the voiceover industry. P2P Voiceover Sites Your Voiceover “Dream” Career For Sale

One can have all the information in the world on voiceover, but if they don’t have the talent, they won’t succeed, much less become competition. Everyone else held their cards close to their chest god forbid they might give up a “secret” of how they make money or get a client.Īll along, I assumed that sharing information on the subject was never going to hurt me, because of one simple fact. If you wanted info on voiceover, my website was the only one that freely shared information. In a short period of time, my website grew from a few pages to 20, then 40, then 80….and at one point exceeded 100 pages of relevant content on everything “voiceover.” It didn’t matter what search term you used, if it had “voiceover” in it, you found Todd Schick Productions….or “Voice over IP”, a developing technology at the time. Two, to bolster my company’s reputation and three, to maintain my top-level search engine status. One, so I wouldn’t have to send out so many e-mails. Since the service was new and I invented it, I was handed the mandate to educate everyone – both clients and talent – on what the business was all about.Īfter sending out the first 100 or so e-mails, I decided to post content on my website on the subject. So, for the next few years I developed, improved and constantly and tweaked the business model of “a home studio based VO talent delivering audio over the internet.” Most of the voice talent were radio people, almost all male….and not a single one save for myself were offering recording services. There was barely enough sites in the search results for “voiceover” to fill two pages. There were only about 30 people showing up under the search term “voiceover” on Yahoo!, the popular search engine of the day. I stood alone on the internet as the only “on-line” service provider for voiceover. In 1998, there was no on-line voiceover industry.