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7 Home Improvement Tips I Learned From Voicing Realtor.com Videos

Home Improvement, LinkedIn, Voiceover

Voiceover for Realtor dot com

Somewhere around the end of 2016, I reached out to a new contact on LinkedIn regarding voice over work who ended up hiring me for a video project for Realtor.com. This turned into another project, which turned into another project, which led to me providing  voice over services for many of the videos Realtor.com produces for series like Homes Of The Stars, Unique Homes, and even a few for their Home Improvement videos.

Wait, what? You didn’t know LinkedIn could be a great marketing tool for freelancers? Absolutely! Check out my e-course on how to use your free LinkedIn account to attract, target, and communicate with prospective clients at https://www.thevoedge.com/if you’re a voice actor, or http://www.thelinkedinedge.com/edge/ if you’re a freelancer in another industry.

Anyway, since it’s the start of a new year and we’re all thinking about new beginnings, I wanted to share with you 7 of my most favorite videos of 2019 from the Realtor.com Home Improvement series. I picked these 7 videos because I learned at least one interesting thing from each video that I consider a fabulous life hack. Hopefully you learn something too! If you want to check out more videos in the Home Improvement series, just go to the Realtor.com’s home improvement collection if you want even more tips.

# 7: Brilliant ways to use hydrogen peroxide inside your home

This video will teach you 10 super cool ways a bottle of hydrogen peroxide can do things like remove rust, clean windows, and remove hard water stains.

# 6: Things you may NOT want to declutter

Before you Marie Kondo your house, this video shows you 5 things you may want to avoid tossing out.

#5: Bathroom items that may have expired

Gross! I realized there were several things in my house that needed replacing after doing the voice over for this video.

#4: The 4 things most people forget to clean

I can’t say that #1 and #4 happen all that often, but I do remember to do #2 and #3 every few months or so. When you watched this video, how did you score?

#3: Surprising ways salt can keep your home clean

With four young kiddos at my house, large quantities of salt often go into making homemade play dough, but doing the voice over for this video helped me learn all kinds of other ways salt can help around the house! #5 was my favorite tip. I love making soup, especially during these cold winter months, so the cutting boards at our house get a LOT of use!

#2: Cleaning agents you can find in your pantry–surprise!

These five things most of us have laying around the pantry can lead a double life as a cleaning hack–who knew? When I voiced this video, I thought #2 was the weirdest.

#1: Hacks to make your closet seem bigger

Granted, these tips are for people selling their home (not my goal at the moment, thank you), however, when I was recording the voice over for this video, I realized that these are also great tactics for people who want to enjoy the closets they have. My husband and I also employed a couple of these tips when we remodeled our master bathroom that included the closet. Now I just need to work on applying these tips to my kids’ closets–yikes!

 

So what about you? What have you inadvertently learned in the course of your workday that you didn’t really set out to learn, but enjoyed adding to your knowledge base? I’d love to hear about it in the comments below!

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Filed Under: Home Improvement, LinkedIn, Voiceover Tagged With: business, Client Relationships, home improvement, learning, LinkedIn, realtordotcom, voice acting, Voice Over, Voice Talent, Voiceover

Secrets for Using LinkedIn to Attract Clients and Make You Money!

Business Communication, LinkedIn, Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Voiceover

Secrets Using LinkedIn Attract Clients Make Money

Secrets For Using LinkedIn to Attract Clients & Make You Money

One of the first pieces of advice I got from a successful entrepreneur specializing in social media marketing was to join LinkedIn.  I really had no clue why I should hop on board yet another social media train at the time, but I did it.  I took a selfie, loaded up some info about my professional life (such as it was), typed up a quick bio and that was that.  Cross another thing off the list. I truly did nothing with said profile until late 2015.  I had dabbled in cold calls, pay-to-plays, and was up to my ears in emails, lists and dead ends.  All in all, I was flat out discouraged and marketing had become no fun at all.

Then one day, I got bored and started clicking through some of my LinkedIn contacts.  Mostly other voice actors, a few friends, and that was about it.  I suddenly noticed that there was a drop-down menu to the side of the search box and decided to see what my options might be.  Lo and behold, the word “people” caught my eye.  I like people and they are a lot more interesting than email addresses.  The more I played around with the many features of LinkedIn, I slowly realized that this could be my new favorite social media platform, as well as a window of opportunity.

I seem to learn something new every day about this powerful platform, but here is the first of the LinkedIn secrets that I use daily to not only meet the right people, but gain new clients, book voiceover jobs, and develop mutually beneficial business relationships.

Secret #1:  Put your best face forward

Your LinkedIn profile needs to be a professional, informative, and accurate representative of who you are. Selfies aren’t going to cut it if you want to be a true professional. Neither is a boring list of your previous positions. Speaking from someone who made those mistakes, save yourself the trouble and do it right the first time.

KEEP IT PROFESSIONAL

I have four young children and a fabulous husband and I love them all to pieces, but I’m not going to post a family picture as my LinkedIn profile picture. Or a picture of me lifting weights in the gym.  Or holding a freshly-baked chocolate cake. Those snapshots encompass moments of my life, but they have nothing to do with me as a voice actor and therefore have no place on my LinkedIn profile because this is the one blessed place where we keep it professional.

According to LinkedIn stats from February 2016, a high-quality photo on your profile gets 14 times the views.  So hire a photographer and go have some fun on a photo shoot that’s all about you! I did it and it was totally fun! I even used a bunch of the pictures from the shoot to put together a video slideshow showcasing a couple of my voiceover demos. Which I then posted on my YouTube channel and linked to my LinkedIn profile. Because I believe in getting my money’s worth.

KEEP IT INFORMATIVE

Even though a picture is worth a thousand words, people need a little more information in order to want to work with you. And that means writing up a little something to tell them who you are, what you do, and what you have to offer in the way of experience and qualifications. Some people like to keep it pretty formal in their writing style, while others take a more casual attitude with the copy.  You have to do what fits you and applies to your profession. If you’re not a great copy writer, hire someone to help do that as well. You can also pick up helpful writing tips from others in your by visiting their profiles. Just be sure to never steal their copy. It’ll make both of you look bad.

It’s helpful to include your title beside your name if you’ve got the room, because people can see that even before they click on your profile. We are all busy and attention spans are shorter than ever these days, so make it easy to spot as much about yourself at a glance.

Which is also why you should also keep your summary section brief, about 3-5 short paragraphs, so choosing your words carefully is important.  Keep it short, but define yourself clearly through the lens of your potential client: what your values are, what makes you unique, what types of projects you specialize in, and most importantly, how you can help them. To add to your credibility, list several of your top clients in bullet form, and if you like, your talent agencies. Since my home studio is such an important part of what I do, I also include a photo of it.

KEEP IT ACCURATE

Accuracy means not only telling the truth, but painting an honest picture of yourself in the best possible light. Maybe you’re not that experienced, but you can still highlight your strengths and whatever past work you have done. Never lie about having worked with a particular client in the past or held a certain position, or anything else that isn’t truthful. Ethics matter in maintaining a successful business.

That being said, an accurate portrayal of yourself means taking an assessment of who you are in all your unique glory. Are you analytical and detail-oriented? Are you fun and light-hearted? Remember what your high school Language Arts teacher talked about regarding your writing “voice”?  Your written “voice” needs to come through in your profile to add that touch of personality and humanity, the sparkle that makes you YOU. With 414 million users on LinkedIn at the time of this post, your profile needs to stand out to be noticed.

There’s so much more to say, and if you’d like more information, there’s an entire course covering every detail of how to build a healthy client base using the free version of LinkedIn. It’s got 2 hours worth of videos teaching you exactly how to use LinkedIn to rock your world! Check out more about The LinkedIn Edge course right here!

In the second part of my super-secret LinkedIn series, I’ll spill my step-by-step method on what I do to find new clients and turn my profile into profit. Read part 2 in the series right here!

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