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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

New Beginnings

I would like to announce the birth of my daughter, Lileh Jo – born on February 4th – for pics and updates you can check out our Shutterfly page– she arrived 8 pounds, 20 inches and my wife and I are thrilled – aside from the feedings every three hours – the diaper ‘blowouts’ are quite humorous.

As far as other things I have been up to – I’ve been revamping my voiceover site at http://justinphillips.us and have found some new tools to use that I would like to pass along. I have already talked about box.net for use in file sharing, both on sites like Twitter and also as a ‘clickable’ element on my site. There are some great tools out there, however some do not work very well without Javascipt and Wordpress does not have Javascipt enabled. (they are working on this with the allowance of ‘embeddable code’ that allows functionality. )

Some of the new sites that are worth mentioning include Meebo – this allows you to put a ‘LIVE’ chat box right on your site – you have to download software to your computer and ‘log in’ – on your site it will then show you as ‘Available’ – I use this to ‘chat’ with clients about projects, I also have a link on my site for Google Voice that allows then to direct dial me from their computer.

With the use of Wordpress I discovered a site that allows you to incorporate YouTube, as well as other sites Videos directly into your Wordpress sidebar – check out Vodpod – after you sign up for an account, which takes less than 30 seconds, you can ‘import’ you videos from numerous other sites and create a ‘template’ to place anywhere on the web. When someone clicks on a video on your site it opens it right on the sidebar without opening another window(which is streamlined and very neat.)

If this is your first time by my site, I invite you to read previous posts for more sites, and tools I use. Thanks for reading – more tidbits coming soon!

--JP

Justin Phillips has worked in the commercial radio industry for over fifteen years as an on air talent and behind the scenes in promotions and production. He is voiceover talent for the Radio Forecast Network and is heard daily across the US reading forecasts on tv and radio stations. Justin is a self taught member of the Social Media – and has sites on Facebook, Linked In and Twitter.

Justin is also available to assist you in your business as a consultant. For more information contact him via email: - ontheairproductions@live.com

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Is There a Social Media Overkill? How Much IS Too Much?

I have a lot of sites that push my voiceover business to my main site at http://justinphillips.us – I am experimenting with some different blogging websites in an effort to expand my voiceover reach via different search engines. (consider it my way of taking over the world.) Of course my main site, listed above, also has links to my Facebook, Voices.com, and other pages in the internet universe, but I often ask myself how much is TOO much. The answer, at least, for me right now is ‘I can’t have too much’ – in trying to build a business around my voiceovers. If I created an online business card it would have more than six links to my various sites, which I know is overkill. With all this ‘web technology’ I need to figure out what works best for me.

For example, on Twitter I am justinphillips – this is my personal account. I also have the handle jpvoice – as a voiceover account then there is the On The Air Productions by Justin Phillips account – otaproductions and another account at ontheairprod. I know you are confused, but probably not as confused as I am. Some of these accounts were created for the purpose of trial and error and a few have been taken out of the ‘Twitter Timeline.’

Fortunately, Twitter is really the only site that I have more than two accounts. I have one account on Facebook – I haven’t gone as far as created a ‘Fan page’ yet for On The Air Productions, but am considering it. Many of my ‘friends’ on Facebook that I follow outside of family and several business associates are people within the voiceover community. I have to be honest I don’t really engage many of them in conversation, I just catch their updates as far as what they are doing and occasionally comment.

I keep hearing about engaging with people which I need to do more of and I know this.

My question for you is how much IS too much? and the even scarier question – Will there be a point where 6 links on a business card is considered ‘the norm’ – if so I’m ahead of a lot of people.

 

--Justin Phillips

On The Air Productions

ontheairproductions@live.com

Monday, January 4, 2010

New Year and New Objective

as we say goodbye to 2009 and welcome in 2010 I have decided to incorporate a more social approach in my Voiceover business. I have several Twitter accounts that I ‘tweet’ from as far as trying to get some new clients. Those accounts are listed below. I will do my best not to send out ‘business’ tweets on my main (justinphillips) account.

If you are looking for a voice for your product, business, presentation, or voicemail, feel free to visit my page at http://justinphillips.us for my demos, and more about me. I have over 10 years experience in the commercial radio industry and I am also available as a radio advertising consultant.

I have two studios available to me for work, so I can get things done usually within a few hours. My rates are always negotiable to the size of the job. I am also available on Skype (justinphillipsvoice).

thanks and I look forward to working with you.

Justin

On The Air Productions/(541)232-6701

http://justinphillips.us/http://justinphillips.voices.com

justin.phillips@live.com

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Giving Thanks 2009

First off let me say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I have so much to be thankful for. A loving wife, dog, and daughter on the way (February), a job doing what I love to do that keeps a smile on my face and my attitude upbeat (most of the time), and friends - including some who I have never met but I can consider 'friends.'

 I can't believe it's already Thanksgiving. as the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade is on in the background I wanted to take a moment to thank some 'friends' who have influenced me this year. I am using social media tools such as Facebook and Twitter to better myself as a voiceover artist and working toward building some business in the area of voiceovers. Some voiceover people that I have 'followed' on Twitter have communicated personally and given their time, and expertise to try and help me. @tdaniel39 and @audioconnell have both given me some great input as to what I need to do to be successful and I thank them both for their time.
 
 Thank you also to the clients I have done work for in the past, and the Radio Forecast Network crew for allowing me to do radio forecasts everyday - it helps with 'relatables' when your on the air as well.

Have a great Thanksgiving - don't eat too much - and have a Happy Holiday Season.

Sincerely,
Justin

Justin Phillips
On the Air Productions
http://justinphillips.us
Twitter: @ontheairprod @justinphillips

Monday, October 5, 2009

Feelin’ Like Fall

  The winds are starting to return and the colors on the trees are changing – it must be Fall in the Willamette Valley(although I’m still plucking tomatoes off of the plant in the backyard.) It’s that wonderful time of the year where pumpkins and apple cider take over the senses and the thrill of October baseball are on my mind. I’m glad my Phillies are in the playoffs too! It sucks they get no respect and get the crappiest TV time at 2:37ET to start. 

Had some client work this morning with NextStep Recycling and I am looking forward to writing and producing a ‘Pumkpin a Day Keeps the Spooks Away’ promo this week. (I’m still in the writing process – it could go in a few different directions still.) Looking forward to lots of sound effects and voiceover effects.

On the Radio Forecast Network side, it’s starting to get colder out across the country – although we get a taste of upper 60s and 70s this week here in Eugene – the nights are in the upper 30s though.

Aside from that the freelance voiceover department seems a little quiet, with the exception of the quick commercial read or :10 tag. I’m still plugging away on Voices.com hoping to get an ‘audition bite.’ 

If you don’t know a lot about me and are curious, feel free to read on. People who know me are aware that I am somewhat a TV Junkie when it comes to favorite shows, thus far the new tv season has really been fun to watch – I love that Lawrence Fishburne has fit into CSI as well as he has after ‘Grissom’ left. CSI Miami is still moving right along at a great pace as well. Onto some of the new shows that I really enjoy.

FlashForward has to be the best new show of the Fall season. Lots of drama, they are starting to take the plot in a lot of different directions, which I’m not really a huge fan of, but it’s still ‘follow alongable’ – ah another new word! LOL – onto the comedies…

the CBS comedies still hold my attention, and my wife likes them too! We’re also ‘trying’ some of the new ABC comedies, including ‘Modern Family’ and ‘Cougar Town’ – we’ve also taken a liking to ‘Eastwick.’

Aside from tv, more importantly I have a daughter on the way and am thrilled(we’re not going to make it some reality tv thing, I promise.) my wife, Krysten, is feeling the kicking and we’re both really excited.

If you would like to follow me, feel free to visit my site at JustinPhillips.us 

If your just getting into Social Media I wrote a piece a few months back that is still relevant about sites I found useful when starting out. You can find it here 

thanks for visiting!

JP

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Midweek VO Thoughts

I can’t believe we’re into Wednesday already. Last night as I was falling asleep I had an idea for the Voiceover World – of course I use the word ‘World’ kind of loosely. I am looking to start something, at first on Facebook – a group – where voiceover artists can go and talk about whatever they want – be it their latest gig, their favorite client, what it is that makes them tick as an artist – occasionally I was considering going as far as having VO artists post their demos so that others could critique and give feedback (positive of course.) In all, a place where we could go as Voiceover Artists to unwind, and relax and just converse about what we do in our lives. (I’m sure some are already using Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn to share their accomplishments, but this would be more in depth then your everyday run of the mill “Allstate has me in Good Hands, I Just Saved 15% and Ran for the Border for the SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY Back to School BLOWOUT Sale on Pencils and Paper with a 50% coupon for Applebees” voiceover you just did.
I will be setting up this group soon on Facebook and I look forward to people joining and conversing/learning and talking. If you have any thoughts on the above, please feel free to share them.
thanks,
JP

Monday, September 14, 2009

Monday Tweeting, Script Tweaking, and Forecast Reading

Aaah Monday...
   started out this morning with a few station clients and reworking some scripts.  I was also having a nice Twitter conversation with Terry Daniel about one of his posts talking about the right and wrong way to advertise a VO business on Twitter, which led to advertising VO business on two other well known sites (LinkedIn and Facebook) too. One of our friends from Voices.com Stephanie Ciccarelli mentioned a possibility of discussing it in a Voices.com Podcast - which will likely happen. All of this conversation happening within about 30 minutes. (gotta love technology.)
   Today is pretty good - am working on some side projects rolling through Voices.com auditions.
   What are you up to this week?

  Feel free to let me know.

  --Justin