VO Pro Tip: Organization

Published about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Voice-Over Pro Tip

Organization for VO

Hey Reader,

When you're working for yourself you may find it easy to get a little careless about things like file organization and backups, but these are incredibly important to keep your business running smoothly.

I recommend keeping at least a few prior years of files readily available on your computer and anything older than say 4-5 years shouldn't be deleted, but can be backed up to an offline drive and stored somewhere in case you may need to go back.

In VO, old files can prove relevant quite often, besides the obvious needing to revisit an old project to re-record/do pickups/edit - you may also want to refer to past books to check how much you charged a client for something years ago compared to what they are offering on a new project, or refer back to old contracts, etc...

I recommend having folders for each aspect of your business (Auditions, Projects, Contracts, Bookkeeping, etc....) and within each folder break down into subfolders for year, and then subfolders for month. This makes it very easy to store and find everything you need, should you need to.

-Michael

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Thanks so much!

-Michael

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