I just had to write this in my blog for one good reason. I was stupified! Grrrrrrrrr\u2026. That is a word, right?<\/p>\n
I was checking out the available auditions on Voices.com when I ran across a budgeted narrative for 100.00. Now, if you know the SurePay system of Voices.com, you know that they keep a portion of that 100.00 for themselves. Ok. That will leave the talent 90.91 for their efforts.<\/p>\n
Ok\u2026so why am so dismayed? Well, I usually will not bother with the 100.00 jobs if my plate is full from my regular load. Well, I had a minute to peruse the info and check out the script they wanted the voice talents to audition for. When I opened the script, it wasn\u2019t a few paragraphs or a page for a hundred bucks\u2026.it was a 3,125 word narrative. Three-thousand and twenty-five words\u2026for 90.91???<\/strong> Are you serious? O-M-G! For you faint-at-heart mathematicians \u2013 that is almost 20 minutes of copy to be recorded, edited, converted and uploaded for 90.91 and even less if you were to be paid by PayPal<\/em> which would take another 2.94 out of that!<\/p>\n For an average 3125 word narrative project, my rates, which are competitive, would span from a low of 20.00\/min. to a high of 75.00\/min. which translates to a low of 390.62 to a high of 1464.85. And this joker was lucky enough to get 20 people to respond and then one of those respondents will cut this lovely script and only be paid enough to possibly fill up their gas tank twice. (Your mileage may vary)<\/p>\n Who ARE these unscrupplus idiots who devalue our efforts and offer such a ridiculous rate or better yet \u2013 who are these morons willing to do it for that price? As long as there are bottom-feeders on both sides of the voice business \u2013 these rates will exist. And it\u2019s so sad to think that some feel that this is an appropriate fee to pay or that it\u2019s an acceptable rate to receive for that amount of work.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t care if you are brand new to the biz\u2026figure it out or ask questions or challenge things like this to see if it\u2019s competitive. Don\u2019t settle for a low-ball figure or you\u2019ll be looking up to everyone for the rest of your young career. Set a standard. Or follow the advice of some of the pro\u2019s who are always available to offer their help on about every forum out there.<\/p>\n And you, Mr. & Mrs. Thrifty \u2013 please ask around and find out what a good rate should be for your project. The Internet is full of information today and there\u2019s just no good excuse for ANYONE not being able to make a judgement call on something that effects so many peoples wallets. This effects us all. Novice or pro. Clients who hire cheap labor are just like the scabs that do it out there in other industries like, clothing, construction, farming, etc\u2026 Look on the Voices.com Rates page if you don\u2019t know what to charge or receive. OMG! This should bother EVERYONE, because it touches all of us.<\/p>\n (Climbing down off my soapbox)<\/p>\n Ahhhhh\u2026I feel better now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just had to write this in my blog for one good reason. I was stupified! Grrrrrrrrr\u2026. That is a word, right? I was checking out the available auditions on Voices.com when I ran across a budgeted narrative for 100.00. Now, if you know the SurePay system of Voices.com, you know that they keep a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n