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Perfecting The Pay To Play is a talk designed to help demystify the world of online casting. There are so many online casting sites today, and each of them works a little differently. Carin Gilfry has had great success using almost every online casting site and will teach her tricks of the trade to help boost your audition to booking ratio and help you to feel more comfortable in the world of pay-to-play websites. We'll cover: -Which sites are right for you? -What are buyers looking for? -Optimizing your profile -Beating the algorithms -Auditioning strategically -Keeping your clients -Demos, tags, and descriptions -And much more!

Takeaways

• In order to be competitive in online casting, you must have a great home studio. Buyers are looking to record from home 99% of the time, and bad audio quality will make them look elsewhere.
• Optimizing your profile will ensure you match the greatest number of job postings. Optimization includes adding demos for every genre of VO you want to work in. To those demos, you will add a variety of tags, styles, and roles.
• Success in online casting means you should audition early and often, and for jobs that match you well! After you audition, let it go!