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when I sent my voice demos to studio , they asked me about (what is my rate card ? )
I didnt understand what is the rate card
please let me know what is the studio mean with rate card
thanks
A rate card is what you charge and how...by the half hour or hour and do you have minimum call, say, two hours, or? What is your redo rate if a spot has to be redone and it's not your fault? Is your rate different for narrations than for commercials or telephone messaging? Do you do free work on spec? It sounds to me like you need business training. Voice over business or music business? Don' know which...but I personally don't use rate cards. Agents book me mostly. And I'm union--AFTRA SAG.
Hope this helps.
Bettye Zoller
VOICESVOICES.com
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Answers by Expert:
Bettye Zoller
Expertise
For over 25 years, I`ve announced hundreds of TV radio commercials, narrated hundreds of videos/films for cable TV, museum tours,corporate and educational uses. I am one of the most well known voiceover coaches in the U.S. and have trained and counseled careers of voiceover talents now heard worldwide. Students travel from all over the world for my expert advice and training in announcing-narrating. I am a recording studio owner and audio engineer in Dallas Texas. I produce commercials there along with audiobook projects and voiceover demos. Much misinformation is "out there" about becoming a voiceover talent. The ability to voice projects is a wonderful way to augment one`s income at all ages and stages of life. This field knows no age! People can voice projects anywhere on earth if there is a recording studio there! And today, we simply send voiceover work as an MP3 file attached to an email, thus permitting us to work for clients worldwide! We live in a "talking world." Toys, greeting cards, telephones--everything talks--that`s what we voiceover talents do and it`s a wonderful field. I am degreed with two masters and a ph.d (minus dissertation) and have taught college courses many times. I am a Simon and Schuster non-fiction audiobook author (Speaking Effective English - WomanSpeak - CommercialSpeak and other titles).
Experience
Past/Present clients
My former students announce commercials, narrate projects worldwide. Some students have jobs on radio/TV stations/channels in many U.S. cities.
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