Double Dutch

Ready to drive some traffic to your site?

September 4, 2009

It’s time to take our voice-over fate into our own hands! Pay-to-play is here to stay, but there are more ways to let voice-seekers know that we exist. If you’d like to hire a PR-firm, go ahead and do that. But if money is tight, you might want to think about that option for a little while. If you’re looking for an agent, you have my blessing too (not that you need it). However, that’s still putting your destiny into someone else’s hands. How about creating a stellar website that will drive business to your doorstep like a powerful magnet? But do yourself a favor and don’t make the classic mistakes I talked about in my last blog.

Ideally, this is what I would like you to do: take a critical look at your current website and be brutally honest. If this were a shop, would you come in and stay for a while? More importantly: would you buy after browsing? And last but not least: would you come back for more?

I have looked at quite a few voice-over websites in the past couple of weeks, and you know by now that I wasn’t exactly impressed. Sometimes it felt like I was walking into the reading room of a library. A few of you felt inclined to respond to my comments and told me that they have no idea and no skills to turn their site into something special. Here’s the good news: you don’t have to be a brilliant professional website designer to bring some color to your online emporium. Once you make the big bucks, I would definitely go to a pro, but when I decided to create a new site dedicated to my voice-over work, I wanted to see what I could do on a very modest budget.

My site is by no means perfect and I’d be the first one to point that out. However, when I type the words “Dutch voice-over” into Google or Yahoo, I am very pleased with what I see!

And for all of you who are wondering how to kick your site up a notch, you should really check out… (continue)

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