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Last week I received one of these e mails that I get all the time from a new person who just read serving Master, and she was so inspired and wrote me this amazing email about a plan she had to she put together to leave her job in about a year to 18 months. She was going to start taking action immediately, and I love getting those e mails I love. When people send me that inspiration email, it really gets me going. It makes me feel good to know that some people out there being affected by my message even more exciting was an email I received just a few days ago, where she messaged me to let me know that she'd already started to new project, should already earned money to different ways online and go back to ask a little more. And then she told me now it was five, and I'm so excited. I teach people taking action. I kind of want to break down the process so you can have the same type of results. It all begins with transitioning from the research to the action taking phase. Some people read serving a master in a day. I know it's really long. Some people, it takes a month and that's okay. During the time where you read a book, you're go through moments of really great excitement, and then it will kind of temper. We get really excited when you read the first few chapters, and if it takes you a month to read it. Your excitement will slowly go down over time, and that's totally normal. That's the same reason most people don't finish courses. We don't finish products we buy. We don't finish the books. We because we get excited. We were the 1st 2 chapters ago. I got the rough idea and you go into the next gets you excited. This is normal human nature, and what we want to do is be aware of what makes us normal and figure out ways to adjust our behavior to improve our chances of success. So you get excited and you have this high level of motivation and over time, you know it's gonna go down. That means the fast you take action, the more likely we are to succeed. You want to take action when you have that high level entered that high level excitement. So you have success very quickly, so you have success. That's what will keep you going. And she's doing a voice over work, which I think is awesome. So I'm gonna talk about that because I, mostly don't just about other ways of making money online, are building a business But this is something really good that I think could be good for a lot of people. Now. It's not for me because I don't have a great voice and I'm not a precise person, and I have a lot of trouble with background noise where I live. If there's not a kid in my house making noise of the dog barking, there's a bird outside where there's a motorcycle going by. Even right now, five in the morning. No one's awake it. The ocean is so loud that certainly that my microphone picks it up a little bit and there goes a burden. It's just the nature of why I live. So for me to get a perfect, pristine sound is a little bit challenging. But if you live somewhere, we have a little more sound control, which most of you do. If you have your own house, you have an apartment walls you can record, even if you have a call in the middle of the night. And the process of doing voiceover work is very simple. You have to get everything right. You have to say the exact words on the page, and there's a set of decisions that people make. Like when you're reading a long book, you may discover there's mistakes in it. I tend to send my books to the narrator before I caught every mistake. Sometimes I don't catch a Grammer stick here there for a year. It happens. And so you're running those mistakes and you have to decide if I can email the author and slow down this process for much gonna read through it, try and guess what they meant. I don't know the right answer for that one. Most readers I know just read whatever's on the page seems to be the standard response. Only once in a while, if it's really egregious, we emailed the author I've only ever had. Someone e mailed me. I think about two different issues. Two different little mistakes over the 30 or 40 books have set to readers. Now narrators can do very very well every time I sell Copy one of my audio books. The narrator makes exactly the amount of money I do if I make $2 there and make $2 if I make 30 the narrator makes 30 were in it 50 50 so narrators can actually do very where long term scenarios could also get sweet money. In the short term, there are many narrators charging 2 to $500 an hour. Now, the measurement of an hour for narrator is a little different. You're not measuring how long you're working, but how long your final product, ISS. This is where your efficiency comes into place. If you could read an hour of the book an hour, how many mistakes you're making? $5 an hour. But if you make tons of mistakes and takes you five hours of retakes and editing, well, then you're making $100 an hour for the same money. So as you get better as you get more efficient, you make more money simply by making less mistakes that have to go back and fix. So how do you find clients is nearer? How do you get out there? There's a couple of things that you could do to get going right away. The first thing is, if you have any interest in doing this at all, you have to build a profile and put it up on a c x dot com that is the Amazon exchange for audio books. That is where I hire all of my readers, my narrators, even if someone comes to me directly and says they want to read one of my books, I still make him go through the basics process because of this process through which I'm most familiar, and it ensures that all the payments handle the way I want to do it. I don't have to check the amount of money on audiobook makes each month and then pay the person. No, Amazon does the split before the money gets to me. I like that. Once you have your little profile of a sex, the next thing you want to do is record five or 10 demos of you reading different types of books. Even if you haven't actually done a project before, each of your demo recordings could be anywhere from 30 to 60 seconds. It's just no time really gonna feel if you want to read non fiction. Read a couple different fiction books. You do fiction to a couple. I recommend doing Spectrum whose work is work. So maybe have a romance scene, maybe even action. Seen other things. Some people talk about doing voices. I've never hired someone who does different voices for characters in one of my book books. If I had a Children's book, I might be interested in that. But I've never found the need for that and what I d'oh. And I'm not sure how much people enjoy. Don't enjoy that, so you'll have to research that directly. If you can't do voices, that's fine. That someone a movie last week saying, I wanted your book, but I don't do voices. I said, That's fine. I don't want you to do voices anyways. Maybe in some fiction books, people really like it. In some fiction picks, people don't. But that's one of the choices you begin to make as you're building out your little resume. You don't have to have actually done books in the past. You can just have samples now. The next step in the process is to apply for everything. I absolutely recommend that you apply for every book you confined, where your voice fits the qualifications. You know what some post something of what I post a book. It says. What gender do you want? What age do you want? Do you want a particular accent? You have to fill out a few questions. It's just how it is. It won't let you push the book until you put those two questions up. So once you have your questions in place, once you have your answers and see what someone wants, you go. Oh, well, I have a Midwestern accent. And so any book that says they don't care about the accent, they want America. They want Midwestern you can apply for. You also have to check the gender, of course, and I recommend applying for tons. So the application process and we're just building one fun. I'm gonna go through several different ways. Application process is quite simple. You see a book you like. You download the script, record yourself for reading the script back, and you upload the file the total time to apply when you're first starting out, it's about 10 minutes. As you get better, that will drop down to five minutes. That means you can apply to at least 10 jobs per hour, and I recommend that you start applying to loads now. I also recommend you start with smaller books. You get a feel my first back to books a lot of ones I did were about 10,000 words, and that's about an hour of work as our final product. Don't commit to a 50 our book like a 10 hour book and tell you've done smaller ones to get a feel. I recommend that one day a week you spend a couple of hours just applying, applying, applying to books. Now it's important to understand the way a C X works that's a little more advanced hip. Every time someone adds the book, it just goes to the top of the list. So some people will add a book at midnight. They're you know, they're working after work. They upload their booked a sex to say they're looking for a reader in the morning. 20 more people do there before work. The one before midnight might not have any applications because he got pushed to the bottom of the list. Search results are always listed by what's the most recent offer. There's no other way of sifting to search results, so I recommend looking for ones that kind of went in overnight or that are a little bit older. Just because you're older doesn't mean they picked anyone, sometimes When I have a book, I have to wait two weeks to find the perfect voice. And there's no predicting what people want. I think you're gonna be a little bit pleasantly surprised when procrastination audio book is ready. It's already been finished and submitted to Amazon for final approval. That takes a little bit of time. So as far as the actual process, once you get hired one of these jobs you don't have to record the book up of the file Fun. Couple of rules. As far as how to put the table contents have to do the front back matter. There's some specific rules for audio books. You know when you say this is by Jonathan Green Red by Jonathan Green or those things, you have to follow those rules. It's not too complicated. They tell you what to do is like an extra 30 seconds. Once you uploaded and the person approves it, they say, Yeah, you did a great job. Amazon takes six more weeks to do their approval process. It could be a full six weeks before your book actually appears for sale. Your audiobook so there can be a big space between when you do the work and when you get paid, and this one of those situations where you can choose to get a flat fee or choose to be a percentage as you take jobs and negotiate and maybe you'll do a mix. But it really is mostly. In my opinion, the better way to go was with split fees. If you have, like running incoming income going over time and once you might have a couple of books that they don't do that great and then you have one, it's a big winner and kind of it'll even out over time. I do recommend it. It's a little bit gambling on yourself, but also your building up your resume a little bit. If you think a book is absolutely terrible, no one's ever gonna buy it, then, yeah, I guess you could do a flat fee, but I think that percentage is good for both sides of the equation. So once you build up your a sex funnel, it's really simple. You put a profile reply to people. You can also email every author that you like. Say, I saw your book is up. I just want you know I submitted my thing. Let me know if you like the style of the voice on board than happy to record a 2nd 1 and a deeper voice or slightly different change. If you want a different tone, that's okay. It's really good to be more proactive if you even someone you're more on the radar, at least the next thing you could do. And I absolutely recommend this, and I cover this a lot in some of the training I have in the urn. One K this month. Free program at serving mass dot com backslash one k. You can go there and you'll see this podcast a lot of other episodes, and most of that training focuses on how to make money freelance writing. But this is how to use a different skill, which is voiceover work, which is wonderful Now. What I'm teaching you now, of course, applies to multiple different skills. You just have to find the right platform. If you want to do graphics or some upsets for graphics, we want to do music this place for music. So it's really just about the concept as much as it's about being ah voiceover person. The next thing you want to do is put up a profile on fiber again. You won't have a couple of your recordings talk about with accents. You can do what type of voices you d'oh will craft projects he could do on five or you get paid smaller money for smaller projects. Some people get paid $5 for 50 words. Most projects will be larger, but you're doing pretty good. One of those $5 projects takes you about five minutes. Suddenly you're doing $60 an hour and you're building of your skill. Set your experience in your catalog. Putting away those profiles is really good. Of course. How do you get those first customers? And again, I recommend advertising lots of different places. You should tell everyone on Facebook what you're up to say. Hey, if you're looking for somebody voice over work, I'm really trying. Experiment with my voice, really resemble graphics working, trying to do more graphics work whatever you want to dio put the word out. I always recommend letting people know what you're interested in doing, what you want them to know about, and some friends we go higher. You are like your voice does. A friend of a friend will hire you and you'll start to get a little bit of traffic. The real key is to put a few things in place and let people know once you have a few samples, you could start building things. And again, we this point conf almost perfectly into the one K program. The A sex part is what's unique for doing voice overs, but then it falls into the same things you go to fiver. You go toe up work. You can go to outsource Lee if you're looking for a full time job. But I'm gonna talk about outsourcing the more and more over the next few weeks because I've been testing that website for hiring people with my new platform. All of these different place doesn't want you to do some really cool things. More places you put your profile when you're up work when you're on outsourcing, when you're on five or when you're on warrior form. When you're on every different place you can put, you'll start to get jobs here and there. You can even put some ads on Craigslist, and you can get jobs this week. It doesn't take a really long time, as this awesome new follower demonstrated in less than a week, she's gotten five jobs now, at first you will take some jobs that aren't that high paying because you're building up a new resume. So maybe you have to start off taking these $5 jobs. But that's okay because you're developing a skill and getting paid to learn it. I love getting paid to learn. I love getting paid to develop skills. Now you may notice that it really just started raining here in the rain. Just started pouring down, hitting the tin roof near me. There's a little bit of background noise. I apologize for that. I'll try to talk louder. Whoa. The storm just went up a level. Okay, It just went full bore. Crazy. But these are some really simple steps you can take the simplest way. Take action. Stop listening. Start doing. Follow the one case steps with whatever skill you wanna sell, and you can make money this week. Thank you for listening to this week's episode of Serve. No, Master. Make sure you subscribe. So you never miss another episode. We'll be back tomorrow with more tips and tactics on how to escape that rat race. Head over to serve no master dot com forward slash podcasts Now for your chance to win a free coffee of Jonathan's bestseller Serve No, master. All you have to do is leave a five star review of this podcast. See you tomorrow. Thank you for listening to the serve. No master podcast. Make sure to subscribe so that together we can achieve true freedom.