I consider myself a pretty decent voice over actor. I make my living through voice over. I, as of now, audition through v123 and voices.com. I get the occasional audition through my agent. I also get repeat business from older clients.
I checked my stats today on voices.com. I have AUDITIONED for 6800 jobs! Crazy right. I have gotten around 300 jobs. That is a whopping 4%.
I know what you're thinking, that's pretty bad. But, think about it. If i get about 15-20 auditions from voices a day. So, that calculates out to maybe 1-2 jobs from voices a week. That also doesn't have to be $100 jobs, those could be larger. I only have to work three weeks to get the yearly membership paid for.
If you add in V123, I may get 1 job every 2 weeks.
If you do that for say a year, you've got clients that may really like what you do and repeatedly use you.
So, as time goes on, I get more and more repeat jobs on top of the auditioned jobs and on top of the v123 auditioned jobs.
My point is, if you've done a hundred auditions and you haven't pulled. Keep trying. Get better at VO, take an acting class, try different directions, but keep DOING IT!
I'm pretty should that first 1000 of jobs were probably ones during that first two years.
Get that first job and CELEBRATE. Check your percentages and see if you're on track. 4% pays my rent, food, and improv. It takes time. You got this.
