Voiceovers And Cloud Storage

Cloud storage is a necessary, if not critical, part of an effective voiceover business in 2020. The ability to save, store, and deliver files electronically can be the difference between booking and not booking a gig.

I bring this up because I had to return my desktop computer and ensure that all of my files are safely backed up in cloud storage. In the process of doing this, I discovered some interesting things…

I had a lot more cloud storage space than I realized in a variety of places.

1. DropBox (where I store my audio files) 2TB

2. Google Drive/Photos (where I store my docs/spreadsheets/pics) 60GB

3. Box (which I forgot I had) 50GB

4. OneDrive (which I didn’t know I had) 105GB

To make it easier to backup and sync my cloud storage, I discovered MultCloud, which with a free account allows you to do just that.

TIP OF THE WEEK

I strongly recommend a double-redundant system utilizing both cloud storage and home storage. Triple, actually.

1. Use a cloud storage service like DropBox or Google Drive to stare and organize your files.

2. Use a daily file backup program like Carbonite.

3. Regularly back your files onto an external hard drive.

NEWS AND NOTES

SOLD OUT!!! Thursday, January 16th @8PM EST: My next Business and Money 201 webinar will be “Rates, Negotiating, and Billing”. We’re gonna talk about, well, rates, negotiating, and billing.

Wednesday, January 22nd @8:30 PM EST: The encore presentation of ‘Online Casting Sites’. In this special one-hour webinar, I’ll talk about the pros and cons of online casting sites in general and Pay-to-Play sites in particular. FYI you can read this I article I wrote to get more of an idea of what’s in store. Click here to sign up!

Thursday, January 23rd @8PM EST: my next Marketing 201 webinar will be “4 Words That Will Kill Your Marketing”. We’ll talk about how think like an effective marketer.

Saturday, February 1st, 2020 @2PM PST: I will be speaking LIVE at the Voice Actors Studio in sunny Las Vegas! The topic is “THE VOICEOVER BUSINESS AND HOW TO ACT LIKE IT”. If you live in the Las Vegas area there are still a few spots left!

HAPPY HAPPYS

Happy Hot Pastrami Day and Appreciate a Dragon Day!

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Tom Dheere is a 30-year veteran voice actor specializing in corporate narration and complex medical scripts. Known as a "street-smart professor," he blends a human-first performance style with a professional understanding of ROI and deadlines.

When he isn’t in the booth, he provides strategic business consulting at VOStrategist.com and produces the comic book Agent 1.22.