Facebook Groups are probably my biggest time-suck right now and I bet it’s yours, too. But we’ll get into that in a moment… First off, I’d like to say thank you for the MASSIVE response last’s week’s blog got. I’ve never had a blog entry commented on, shared, and re-posted so many times. A special thank you to those who sent me private messages of appreciation and support. It seems to have resonated with many members of the voiceover community. Curiously, there wasn’t a singl

Since I’m not actually here this week (you’ll know what I mean by that next week 😉 ), I thought I’d keep y’all busy by posting some helpful blog posts. Sort of a Tom’s Greatest Hits thang. There’s an app, I mean, there’s a blog for that. Here, by number of reads, are my Top Ten Helpful Blog Posts! Facebook Friends My Sennheiser 416 The Top 5 Top 5 Lists of 2015 (this also has a list of blogs so we’re double-dipping here) The Secret to Getting an Agent The New Tax Code Voiceb

As a comic book producer and the VO Strategist, I do a lot of advertising on Facebook and my online security is very important to me. I’ve been doing it for a few years and it has had a huge impact on my business for the better. With Facebook recently being in the news regarding the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I’ve taken a step back to examine how we as voice talents, businesses, and consumers navigate the Internet in general and how social media platforms affect that naviga

This is the fourth of five blog entries that will focus on getting your **** together for 2017. Wanna catch up first? Here’s Part 1: Cash Flow, Part 2: Tools, and Part 3: Technique. Next up: Marketing! Ah, marketing. What everyone wants to do well, but almost nobody knows how to do it effectively. Not the big corporations, not the small businesses, not the marketing majors, not me, not you, nobody. Why? Two reasons: Nobody knows what is. It’s one big guessing game. I define

About a year ago, I started to get sick of Facebook. Well, not sick of it because who can get sick of Facebook, right? 😉 Sick of being dependent on something for my business that became unwieldy, tedious, and sometimes offensive. FYI Facebook is one of the most effective marketing tools in both my voiceover business and comic book business so I’m not going to stop using it just because my News Feed is a cesspool of cat selfies and political rants. In an attempt to improve my

Back in September I posted a blog about Facebook and my recent changes in how I manage my Facebook friends. Click here to read said entry. To recap, here are the three new things I’ve been doing on Facebook in an effort to improve the experience and reduce the time-suck factor: 1) I may not accept your friend request. 2) As soon as I accept your friend request, I will most likely un-follow you. 3) When I get a notification that’s it’s your birthday, I may un-friend you. As a

I love Facebook. I’m on it several times a day. I keep in touch with friends, play Scrabble, monitor my business page and Agent 1.22 page, and more. Lately I’ve been making an effort to keep my interaction at a minimum during office hours , but those damn little red flags just keep sucking me back in, you know? Anyway, I’ve developed three new habits on Facebook. I’m not sure if they’re good habits or bad habits, but I’ll let you decide… 1) I may not accept your friend reques