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I've recently launched my new website PhoHostAndDesign.Com! For the past 3 years now, I've watched my clientèle grow and grow, without a dedicated website to the web hosting service I was providing. So, just this year, I've registered Pro Host And Design as a business name. Check out the website and If you have any questions, just shoot me an E-mail. www.prohostanddesign.com
Thanks for reading.
I am now officially offering four new services and they are:
1. Website Design - Need someone to get your business online? Custom designed themes and templates.
2. Website Hosting - Need someone reliable to host your website on the Internet? I can do that for you too. Check out my hosting plans Here.
I'm actually in the middle of a website revamp which you can see is almost finished. I've kept all the old topics and traveling posts, however they'll soon be moved or migrated with my new media website found here: KeithFarrellMedia.Com
The media website will include random postings about anything and everything, and it will also include my traveling stories and events, places I visit etc... I also registered KeithFarrell.Com and a few other domains which I'll be opening up over the next few weeks. I'll post more about them as I progress.
thanks for reading ! ;)
What Happened Recently?
Well, that's going to have to be something I'll explain on my video blog some day. I know a lot of people will be wondering what happened to the voiceover community website ' Every Demo'. Well, the truth is that I realized I was trying to help people promote a business they actually cared nothing about and most of whom are actually doing voiceovers for a quick euro. The voiceover site 'Every Demo' was becoming expensive to run and I wasn't making money on the site anyway, (nobody ever donated) so why bother keep it open for a bunch of free loaders?
This post may be intuitive to those of whom who don't actually know how to layout their services and what it is they do in terms of 'voice-overs'. In this blog, I'm firstly going to cover commonsense. If you walk into a shop and ask the managing director what a voice-over is? He most likely will not know or will give you the wrong answer.
Explaining your product
What are the most annoying Facebookers and Facebook features? For me, its the Mafia war and Farm ville crew who continuously invite you to join and clog up your notifications center with junk invites. I also hate the fact that people who use the Facebook application and use your e-mail to invite you to join an app. All you get is spam about how the invitee has earned so many points and bla bla.
The past week has probably been the most stressful week of the year. It started off with a client I was doing voice-overs for had already paid me in advance. During the recording session, my microphone had just gone on the blink half way through a read. I then had to go buy a new one and before you ask what mic....it was the Audio Technica MB5k. Then I began to re-record and found that my Amplifier had just blown on one side. Guess where I ended up?
A unique person once inspired me to be creative because he once created one of the most unique voice-over systems in the sector of the voice-over marketplace. Radio Daddy - Voice-Over Exchange. So where's that creative mind now Keith ???
So, that time of year has arrived and I'm thinking of new areas of business to explore and I'm currently researching openings in the market. Somewhere new to break into.... What comes with creating domains names is that big question! "Why that name?" And I can't answer it. HaHa, yes, for once I'm getting stumped...
All year I am watching people signing up to forums and facebook and all other outlets using the word "Voice" or voiceovers. If you're looking to promote yourself, then stop using the word VOICE It has over 266,000,000 pages/site already containing that keyword.
I love my blog because its not fixated on any given particular industry or area of business. I'd actually recommend people to have a blog about themselves rather than the community area they work in. Having a blog dedicated to a specific industry totally restricts you from writing whatever you like. Unlike me for example, I've been babbling on all day. Some time during the week, I'll try write an article about blog tips. Some of you might like to contribute to the post since most of you are bloggers anyway. I must ask so I get no replies from anyone..
My blog covers loads of areas, from my travelling story's (not that I wrote many of them). But that's going to change...I want to get back on the road again. Well not the road, but, on the train haha and start writing like I used too.
I'm going to start travelling again, it gives me a large incentive to write about a variety of things from new business venture or ideas to a large variety of story's. You see, the thing about trains is; you'll always meet someone new, and everyone has a story to tell. And I always meet someone...Guess it make me a journalist of some kind?!
Some people don't understand the importance of website content. Let me use voice-over talents for example. I see most voice-over talents complain about the fact it is so hard to get work in an overcrowded industry and the fact their business is suffering. They also complain about the fact that profile listing websites like voices.com/other are well overcrowded.
Too Busy for a Friend.....an e-mail I received today, so I am reposting it so someone might like to copy it and start a chain mail.
EMAIL:
One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other students in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each name..
Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say about each of their classmates and write it down.
It took the remainder of the class period to finish their assignment, and as the students left the room, each one handed in the papers.
Many of you may be regulars watching for new posts I may post up. I've been trying to make the time to write a couple of different articles about various areas I work in or which I like to work in. I was planning to write a couple of articles each night. It's not always easy for bloggers to find or write new content, since writing for one; is a skill and a talent in itself.
