The Honeymoon is over! What's the average?

Diane Havens · **Voice Talent** Joined: 09 Jun 2006 Posts: 1281

Don't know, Dave. But my first year here was my best, by far.

Lee Gordon · **Voice Talent** Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 1549

I'm experiencing the same thing you are, Dave. It seems to date back to around the beginning of May.

Lance Blair · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008, 20:47 (GMT) Post subject:

The well is...well, dry.

Craig Burnett · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008, 21:39 (GMT) Post subject: So it ISN'T just me!

I was getting, sometimes, DOZENS of auditions each day...so many that if I was busy, I couldn't get to them all.
The other day I got a "Weekly Summary" that had probably TWO DOZEN jobs that "Matched my profile" that I didn't get invited for.

I traded emails wih Steven Lowell, who told me that it was clearly the lack of details in my profile that were limiting my leads. Which I thought was odd, because:
1. Up until about a week ago I was getting TONS of leads,
and
2. Their system TOLD ME that the leads matched my profile, yet their system didn't SEND ME the leads.

He never did answer my question as to why I didn't get the leads that the computer program TOLD ME matched my profile. He stuck to his story that "...SmartCast is a computer program, you must tell it what you want," meaning a clear-cut profile with lots of keywords will get you more auditions. Except he couldn't tell me why I was getting TONS of auditions until just recently.

This is getting VERY frustrating. Everyone knows auditioning is a numbers game...you've gotta do 100 to get a job or two. And I don't MIND auditioning...I consider that my job...too bad I'm paying a company $300 a year to not let me do my job.

Methinks something is amiss at V123...which is sad, because in the old days before SmartCast, it was actually a pretty good system.

David Oxford · **Voice Talent** Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 505