FAQs
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Trade magazines, books and on-line forums for advertisers, agents, producers and voice talents. I attend advertising seminars and read everything I can about the current state of advertising. The best book on advertising I've read recently: How To Market To People Not Like You.
- How did you get started doing this type of work?
I used to love listening to the AM radio as a boy in Miami, Florida in the sixties. Back then it was guys like: Jim Dunlap, Rick Shaw and Roby Young on WQAM and WFUN. That seemed like the coolest job on earth! When I went to college in Oklahoma I paid a little visit to the local radio station there called, KGFF. They eventually trained me and I became a night time DJ while attending college earning 2.10 per hour in 1975. Within a year I had written and produced the Commercial Of The Year at the Oklahoma Broadcaster's convention and I was honored as a Regional Winner in Billboard Magazine's Air Personality competition. I was off and running then. I've worked in Oklahoma, Florida, Texas, California, Illinois and Arkansas and it has been such a good adventure. I started doing voice-overs in addition to my "on-air" work in the mid eighties.
- What types of customers have you worked with?
Radio commercials, TV commercials, training videos (DVDs), safety videos, website presentations, movie trailers, theatre commercials, trade show presentations, in-store announcements, new product demonstration videos, phone apps, video games, phone message on-hold recordings and IVR.