Skip to main content
Tom Deere

Tom Deere

Tom Dheere is the VO Strategist — a New York-based voice actor, voiceover business and marketing coach with over 25 years of experience.

Sep 15, 2026

5:42
Mm-hmm.
5:43
This is the big problem with that, with, with the sort of, you know, a certain amount of lessons and then the demo.
5:51
Depending on the student, there are some students who need, who only need four or five lessons.
5:56
Like, if you've got a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater, and you have had years of ... a performance experience in theater or film or stand-up comedy or improv or, you know, or opera or whatever, which I'm noticing a lot more, um, opera singers are coming into the-

14 MINS LATER

20:36
Right.
20:36
So the students, and it, and the onus is, the onus is yes, on us, to be able to say, "Look, this is what you need to do, be, and have to be an effective voice actor, and this is how all that needs to manifest in the demo that you want to have made, and we want to help you make so you can get out there and market yourself and be the voice actor-
16:39
Yeah.
16:40
So it was a huge mistake.
16:42
Now, this is the s- this is how I salvaged it.
16:45
So for one thing, I put them all on YouTube.
16:48
Nobody watched them.
16:49
I think I got 30-something views was the most out of one video, which is obviously a huge fail.
16:53
And then nobody paid attention to it.
18:45
Mm-hmm.
4:03
But I think there's a lot more combinations of reasons as to why you're not booking.
4:09
Oh, absolutely.
4:11
But yeah, that, that baseline of, you know, not having the training, there's a, you know, you can, you know, you can be taught, you can be taught how to box or, you know, or play baseball or play a violin and you can get your lessons and say, okay, this is how I stand.
4:26
This is how I position, do that.
4:28
But there's something to be said for practice.
4:30
But also there's something to be said for the quantity and quality of your practice.
4:35
There's a great book by Jeff Colvin called Talent is Overrated.

12 MINS LATER

17:02
But the other is you might have an amazing actor worthy audition, but yet you don't fit the demographic that the client is actually looking for.
1:34
Nice location in the city.
1:37
So Monday night, which is the one game that they lost.
1:43
And what do you call it? Wednesday night, which was the away game.
1:51
And then Saturday night is where they won it all.
1:55
So...
1:57
We were watching out the window, all the crazy that was happening until very late in the evening.
2:05
Like literally right over here, because the Monday night game where the president was in down, so like many, many blocks were blocked off and stuff.

9 MINS LATER

11:16
You must have students like that.

We value your privacy

We use cookies to understand how you use our platform and to improve your experience. Click “Accept All” to consent, or “Decline non-essential” to opt out of non-essential cookies. Read our Privacy Policy.