Ep. 321 - Why Your Voice Over Website Isn't Bringing You Work, with Gabby Nistico

Send us Fan Mail Is your voice over website bringing you any work? Gabby Nistico and I answer your questions on this Open Forum Friday at VO Journey Academy, and most of them were about websites. For years my own website brought in nothing. Gabby explains the difference between design and function: design is the pretty part, and function is how buyers move through your site. She also says there's no such thing as a beginner website. We talk about what buyers need from you, why most visitors aren't ready to hire you that day, whether a producer can download your samples, and why a one-page site is hard to find on Google. What you'll learn: Why design is the small part of a voice over website Why there's no such thing as a beginner website or a beginner demo What to do about visitors who aren't ready to hire you yet Why buyers need to be able to download your samples Why more pages help you get found on Google Where a custom website lives, and why site builders can hold you back How the e-books in the Academy Voices store open in Apple Books or Kindle (00:00) Welcome to Open Forum Friday (00:59) A new story series on Academy Voices (02:02) Kindle Unlimited becomes Kindle+ (03:13) The first series and its founding authors (03:55) Is Anthony's website built on WordPress? (05:17) Where a custom website lives (05:42) Will there be website tips for voice actors? (06:20) Why site builders hold you back (07:38) Design vs function on your website (08:36) A demo player you can put on your own site (09:17) There's no such thing as a beginner website (10:17) Why my old website never brought in work (12:11) Make your website the hub of your business (12:35) Why most website help isn't built for voice actors (13:23) What buyers want when they land on your site (13:56) Most visitors aren't ready to buy today (14:16) Can buyers download your samples? (15:13) Where websites are stored (16:15) Why Academy Voices has almost 2,000 pages (18:09) Free templates and tools taped together (18:53) Can authors publish through Academy Voices? (20:11) E-books that open in Apple Books or Kindle (21:33) The new VO Journey Academy website on 1 December (23:24) One page or many? Websites and Google (23:41) Why long scrolling pages lost on Google (25:15) Thanks for listening Train with us live every week at VO Journey Academy: https://www.avosjourney.com/start?src=podcast-ep321 Try a free class first: https://www.avosjourney.com/free-class?src=podcast-ep321 Academy Voices, the alternative to ACX: https://www.academyvoices.com/ Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0Ia2fZUC2Dc Support the show Social Links:    Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/anthony_pica_vo/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/AVOsJOURNEY Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/avosjourney/  LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonypicavo/