made new homepage #studiolist

raced through 40 pages of a branding guide today to start my voiceover business on the right foot. #stolenvoice

finished the advanced VO course (doing post-production, working with directors, client-work remotely, physical and vocal health) #stolenvoice

after weeks of thinking I subscribed to Adobe’s Creative Suite so I have access to Audition, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Illustrator. Expecting that this is a good business investment for #stolenvoice with ROI in terms of the creations I’ll do which are voiceover recordings and voiced video animations (AVV)

Thursday confession what I got done in my voiceover biz #stolenvoice

wrote script no. 1 of my commercial demo reel (a fictitious company called Caloa) #stolenvoice

another iteration for the recording of script 1/7 of my commercial demo reel, awaiting the feedback on the artistic performance level and the technical audio quality - making little progress while having fun in the studio imitating monkey because heck the script is about jungle and rainforest *haha* #stolenvoice

add to footer my very personal reason why I'm creating #studiolist

added 10 more recording studios in Berlin and called some to see whether they’re still offering their service #studiolist

great talk with a good friend #laif #naii - potentially shaping how I’m approaching #studiolist

a "funny" it was, macmini came, skype call with my client with also uncomfortable topics (speaking of bureaucratic stuff that ultimately means I HAVE TO find new clients to create revenue from those) which essentially means that I have to move my ass into a direction where I do make money with voiceover and not only "play around" - that's life: a drama of high and low and all the things in between.... 😉 #hip

learned a bit more on mic selection and created my preliminary shopping list for home-studio recording gear - takes soo much time (cos me = relatively bad decision maker) - will purchase in a few days and try it all out - AND: learned a few tricks on how to record on the road traveling - SUPER EXCITING and if it works it would be a bit of DREAM COME TRUE :) #stolenvoice

worked on my improvised home-recording setup, practiced more commercial scripts #stolenvoice

Made an important decision: Making money through product work via #studiolist does take longer and teaching via #freewritecamp is not a money-making "machine" anyway. So, my current focus is on revenue 💰💰💰 via #stolenvoice client work and (inbound) marketing of my client voiceover services because through client work I can make immediate money and money is important for my business survival. When survial time will be "mastered" I can shift focus on playing with other channels of revenue - Klitschko's tweet (twitter.com/Klitschko/status/… ) reminded of focus as the key ingredient for long-term success. So be it. Also learned that when the topic is survival I'm pretty good at it, as learned in Cuba.

continued polishing the scripts of my commercial demo reel (iA Writer and Hemingway Editor helped today) #stolenvoice

(was Friday, Feb 16) finished course "How to voice commercial", read the article related to that, continued the drip on setting up a home-recording studio and watched the webinar on "How to Record Yourself as a Voice Artist" #stolenvoice

found a place to do voiceover pro-bono work: librivox.org - it's not exactly for charities or non-profits but for the public domain #stolenvoice

continued learning on Self-Direction for Voiceover Artists #stolenvoice