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What do you think about a voice over service?



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What do you think about a voice over service?

Ok so I might just have an idea for my first service here! Inspired by Mike discussion about text to speech software...

What do you think about offering a voice over service? I know a lot of people that are too nervous to speak in their Youtube videos for reasons ranging from being shy about their accents,not confident about their ability to speak English or they don't like the sound of their own voice... so I might have a nice little market that I can tap into.

So can anyone help me with ideas on how to price such a service?

On top of that can anyone advise me on what equipment I should have and what I should use to record with?

I don't have any equipment or software at the moment so I would have to probably sort that out first.

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Cristian
This is actually a great idea Lynne! Like every service on SEOclerks will have a play button where a potential buyer can hear the sale pitch.
It would be something like fiverr has with the videos, only a bit more professional if you ask me.
Not everybody has the charisma to record a video about their services and sound/look convincing enough to get orders. So yeah, would be a great new feature for SEOclerks, something I actually never seen at SC competitors.



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Lynne
Thanks Cristian What do you think about a voice over service? yeah I think I'll give it a go and see how this goes. This is something I think I will be good at.

I will have to make a Youtube video tomorrow for my service and add that in.

I will also need to spend some time making writing my sales copy.



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Everett
Lynne, I think this would be amazing for you to do. Your accent is really neat as well, and there are not many people with this accent. Also, because you have an accent, and it appears to be "exotic" than this gives you an edge over many voice over actors. I'm unsure whether or not to call them actors or voiceoverers.. LOL

You can probably use free software, or even the sound recorder that you prompted on the screenie. You already know a lot about all of this since you have a Youtube Channel, so your foot is basically in this door already, all you need to do is step in and offer the service. Now I'm not typically certain how much success you would have here, but you could always try!



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Lynne
Thanks Everett. Well this would be a really good service to start with because it would be something relatively quick and easy to do. Something I could squeeze into my work load easily when I need to.

Thanks for the compliment, I have had a lot of feedback on Youtube and on my blog about my accent. I am pleased to say most people like it... although one person on Youtube gave me a negative comment and said my accent was horribly annoying LOL



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EliteWriter
I wish you luck Lynne! I am glad you came up with this idea as I recall you wanted to start offering a service here but was not quite sure which. I am sure you have a nice voice for voice overs and that you have some experience since you did YouTube videos already. I cannot give you much advice as I never did this, other than to set the price a bit low so as to stand out among others who are offering this service. I checked some in the marketplace and I must say I was quite shocked to see considerably high rates. I do not think that spending a few minutes reading something out loud in a professional way warrants such prices. I am sure you will be professional and reasonable about it. Best of luck!



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Lynne
Yes EliteWriter I have been trying to come up with an idea for a service here but didn't have much luck coming up with something that felt right!

Yeah I did some research yesterday on voice over services here and the prices do seem very high! I can most certainly come in much lower than any of those and still be making a nice amount of extra income if I make some sales.

I think I will enjoy this!



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idealmike
Damn it. I just typed out an answer here. Then my Firefox said there was an update so clicked it and it refreshed all my tabs and I lost my answer. So that was rude!! Anyway, what I think I was saying was that you'll only really need a microphone. But that your PC/laptop may already have one built into it? Most modern laptops/computers do for talking on Skype and that. However, they are quite "tinny" sounding so you could invest in a better microphone. You can get a wireless/bluetooth one for like $10 on fleabay or Amazon etc.

Price wise, I would start off selling it for like $2 or something at first. Just until you can get a few good ratings left on your service. Then up the price. I think a good fair reasonable price for something like this would be around $1 per 100 spoken words. More or less same sort of price for writing. But have a minimum order of like 500 words else it might not really be worth your time to do. They would have to give you the script first of course. Then you could just read it out as you're recording. Should only take about 3-5 minutes for a 500 word script.

Anyway yeah, that should be some more food for thought for you. What do you think about a voice over service?



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Lynne
Thanks Mike. I bought a headset recently when my laptop died because my pc doesn't have speakers or a microphone so I am assuming this would be a much better option than using my laptop for recording?

Do you know what software I might record to? This type of thing is beyond me lol, so I will have to figure out what to use and then I can add my service. I am so excited because this is the first time I think I have come up with a really cool service that people will want!

I just have a question regarding delivery times... I cannot get a thing done if my children are at home. They are the noisiest animals I have ever encountered right?

So I would have to take into account weekends when my children are home so that is 2 days already that I need to add on for example in case someone orders on a Friday after my kids are home... if they order at like 1pm then I will not be able to attend to the order before Monday morning! So this makes it 2 and a half days minimum that I have to make my order otherwise I will disappoint people, but also I think that just leaving half a day to get something done in that scenario also cuts it fine because knowing my luck my kids will decide to be ill on that Monday... do you have kids? If you do then you know exactly how this works! LOL

So if I make delivery 4 days is that ok? I can most likely deliver same day if the order is placed in the morning during the week.... and if I don't have a lot of orders.



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idealmike
TBH, if you're using Windows already. You can just use the Sound Recorder Tool. Just start typing "Sound Recorder" into the Windows Start menu search field and select Sound Recorder. I thought we posted about it before on here but searched and couldn't find anything so perhaps it was in chat. Anyway, that is all that you really need. Once finished, recordings are saved as MP3 files. So you can just send that to your client. What do you think about a voice over service?

And yeah you wouldn't want kids yelling in the background. Not too professional lol. But it should only take about 5-10 mins to speak a script in a quiet room or something or last thing at night. What do you think about a voice over service?
What do you think about a voice over service?



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Lynne
Yes very true, I can always tell my husband he must take over for a while and keep them quiet in the evening so I can get it done!

Now I am thinking maybe I can make use of him as a male voice over.... he has a very sexy Afrikaans accent What do you think about a voice over service?

Thanks, I will check my pc for that tomorrow What do you think about a voice over service? Thanks for all your help.

I have to be honest here though I have been checking out all the services here and I am a bit nervous now. It seems like they are all very professional and I feel like I can't say I am a professional voice over person because I have never done this before. I can maybe give a professional voice LOL... hey I guess I can only try right?



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EliteWriter
Yes it is a good idea to think in advance for weekends. If the kids are at home you need to have someone to keep them quiet, or maybe you can do it while they are asleep.

Regarding equipment a headset with a microphone that allows your voice to be as clear as possible is a must. I am not sure about software but I am sure that there are various you could use.



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Lynne
PS I hate it when that happens! When I was replying to your inbox messages recently I was on my phone and I typed out really long messages and when I pressed send it only sent the first sentence of what I said and not the rest both times.

I had come home late (after 10pm) after spending 3 hours advising and counselling the parents of an addict... so I was like wrecked LOL... I decided the message didn't matter anyway and went to sleep.



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