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| Candle
or Mirror?.........Liz Raphael Helgesen |
| How
to Use an e-Booklet to Promote Your Business....By
Frank Frederick |
| The Funnies........From
various sources's |
| Interview
with a Voiceover Guy.........Peter Drew |
| So
PRESTO! You are the Producer?.........Rick Gordon |
| Steps
to Marketing Your Website (This month #2).......Mark Pelisek
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New
Business Development Feature
By Liz Raphael Helgesen
The
Secret Voice
Reaching Your Highest Potential
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“There
are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror
that reflects it.” --Edith Wharton
This is my commitment every day when I get out of bed. But it’s
especially prevalent for me during this special time of year--festive
candles and lights are burning everywhere I turn, reminding me of
this most important responsibility I have: to shine my light and
to reflect yours.
With current world events
and religious diversity reflected in every newspaper, every street
corner and every store, and even among my family, friends and colleagues,
I can’t help but reflect on how crucial it is to keep the
light burning within me, at all costs, no matter how challenging
life’s circumstances.
Here are some ways I
commit to keeping my fire burning and my light shining in 2008:
Align myself with
my highest purpose each day.
Be the person G-d
intended me to be.
Work diligently
to keep my demons at bay.
Feel the wellbeing
inside of me.
Learn from my mistakes;
use my struggles to grow and shine more brightly.
Be grateful for
my past; it has created who I am today.
Continue teaching,
helping and serving others.
Finally, nothing feeds my soul or helps my candle burn more brightly
than spreading goodness to others. Rabbi Aaron Moss states, “The
more goodness we spread, the more goodness we have. There is an
endless supply of light in your soul. You will never run out of
goodness.”
May all
our lights burn brightly and radiate in 2008.
Liz
Raphael Helgesen is President of Passion Fruit Productions,
Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a nationally recognized voice
artist specializing in meeting the needs of listeners through
automated speech systems, on-line training and education,
commercials, corporate films and inspirational mobile content.
For over twenty years, Liz has provided business mentoring
to women and men and helps people change the course of their
lives. Liz donates her voice weekly to CharityFocus.org to
record inspirational passages to help people connect with
their higher purpose.
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Liz
Raphael Helgesen
Passion Fruit Productions, Inc.
www.PassionFruitProductions.com
Liz@PassionFruitProductions.com
770-992-1437 (EST) Phone 770-992-1432
(EST) Fax
Your
Message. My Passion
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Watch
CBS on Saturday the 29th of December at 4:00 p.m. Central (Check local
listing for exact times in the USA – I will be the VO Host of
the “Monster Energy AMA Supercross Preview Show. It might be
fun to watch.
Frank |
How
to Use an e-Booklet to Promote Your Business.....by
Frank Frederick
Use e-Booklets
to Create a "Viral" Marketing Campaign
Viral marketing
is a strategy that encourages your customers to pass on, or spread,
a marketing message to others. Like a virus, your message has the
potential to spread exponentially throughout online communities.
With e-Booklets, you
now have a hot new way to take advantage of this powerful strategy
to drive qualified buyers to your website by offering tons of valuable
information--and encouraging clients and customers to share the
information with their friends and cohorts..................More
Frank
Frederick “The
Voice” tm is a professional voiceover talent and
author of “LoveNotes: Branding and Marketing
for VoiceOver Artists." Frank has also created
an ISDN codec alternative called iSpeek, which uses the internet
to send and receive real-time, studio-quality, low-delay audio
via the internet. For more information click on the links
below:
www.ispeek.info
www.voice-international.com
www. thevoice.ispeek.org/
frank@ispeek.org |
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The
Funnies
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Interview
with a Voiceover Guy
by Peter Drew
I was contacted by a
new media publication to do an interview about voiceovers. They
sent questions for me to answer via email. I sent back my responses
to their questions, but realized later that I needed to make a change
before I signed off on it, giving the publisher permission to quote
me. Rather than make the change, the publisher decided to pull the
interview from publication instead of making the change. So, I thought,
instead of wasting a perfectly good interview, I’d publish
it myself. Here’s that article, intact except for a few changes
I decided to make, since I’m now, well, in essence, interviewing
myself.
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Peter
Drew, a card-carrying
member of the Commercial Voices cadre, provides voice overs
for all electronic media. Have a comment about this article?
Please visit Peter Drew Voiceovers and drop him a line via
email. While you're there, check out Peter's demos and additional
articles on the voice-over business. http://www.peterdrewvo.com |
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So
PRESTO! You are the Producer?....Rick Gordon
Your new company website
is online and as part of the content there will be a voiceover done
by a professional and since you have a wonderful voice the boss
has decided you should be the one to get the job done. GREAT! Well....errrr.........where
do I start?
This can be a very complex and time consuming project so I will
just give you the jest of it using a very short President's welcome
to the your new website.
The very first thing you will need is a script. Don't even think
about VO talent at this point. It is absolutely imperitive that
you have a perfect script that all will agree upon, especially the
President....more
Rick
Gordon
owns and operates CommercialVoices.com and he can be heard
on occasion rambling on about some aspect of the VO business:)
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Steps
to Marketing Your Website (This month #2)....Mark
Pelisek
This Month: Participate
and Network
Personal Branding
Personal branding is
a way of marketing yourself online using social networking sites.
Using your company's marketing message, "set up shop"
by creating a page or profile on the site's system, and then by
being active on the site. To start, try these:
Set up your profile completely
in the StartupNation
Community, including listing your products in the StartupNation
Marketplace.
Create a complete profile at
LinkedIn, and then search for family, friends, and colleagues
past and present to add to your networking list. (As a bonus, we
highly recommend giving the people on your list
recommendations that you feel qualified to give -- often times,
the gift is returned!)
Find other networking communities like Ryze
and The Small Business
Forum to set up a profile at and introduce yourself.
Depending on your product and online needs, you may find it beneficial
to also set up a profile at Facebook,
MySpace, Yahoo!
or YouTube. You
should also set up profiles in any of the additional forums you
identify below......More
To learn more about creating
quality content and writing for the web, contact Whirl Wind
Web & Design Studio at info@whirlwindstudio.com
| Mark
Pelisek of Whirl Wind Web & Design Studio
offers a range of services to help you improve your image or
establish a new one. Choose Whirl Wind to boost your marketing
and advertising campaign by using some of their design services.
From business cards to booklets, calendars to powerpoint presentations,
Whirl Wind Web & Design Studio has you covered.If you would
like more information about the services that we provide, please
email us at WhirlWindStudio@rogers.com
or visit at WhirlWindStudio.com |
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