VOplanet/VoiceCasting/Donna's Page

VOICECASTING: www.voicecasting.com

Contact:  Donna Summers dsummers@voicecasting.com   

Contact:  Robert Simmons:  rsimmons@voicecasting.com

Toll Free:  888-716-8806

Direct to Donna:  678-481-5026

The talent and team at VoiceCasting participate in the highest profile projects available today, bringing in each project on time and on budget. VoiceCasting is a full-service voice-over talent agency that serves an elite list of loyal clients and talent globally. The agency represents union, non-union, and financial-core talent and books jobs on the local, national, and international level. Since 1978 VoiceCasting has been in continuous business, formerly as a full service talent agency based in Atlanta, GA - Donna Summers Talent. The company chose to focus solely on voice-over representation about 16 years ago, set up its first agency website featuring some of the first talent VO demos on the Internet, and changed the agency name to VoiceCasting. Now operating as a full service talent agency, the team of Donna Summers and Robert Simmons act as agents and managers.  They handle all talent acquisition and bookings for their VoiceCasting clients. Donna is lead booking agent, conducts talent consultations, client relations, client/talent liaison and handles much of the daily operations at VoiceCasting.  Agency policy and procedure, PR and social networking are handled by the managing team of Summers/Simmons.  Robert Simmons, who was one of the original co-creators of VoiceCasting, serves as tech support and webmaster at the agency. He is assists with talent/client liaison and is accounting executive at VoiceCasting.

The agents at VoiceCasting consistently negotiate the best rates (and residuals if applicable) for their talent while being fair and reasonable to their clients. Involving an agent in the audition and VO job process benefits the talent by letting him or her focus on what they do best, which is voice the job. Agency involvement benefits clients by allowing them to focus on getting the absolute best talent candidates for their projects within a reasonable period of time and for a fair fee without wading through hours of unknown and unqualified talent.  Agency involvement tends to greatly increase the assurance that a fair rate will be reached.  Agents are available daily for audition set-up and direction, demo critique, coaching referrals, studio consults, and tech support, and billing help.

Agency assistance and services are free for all clients and talent of VoiceCasting. A fee is only charged if a VoiceCasting talent is booked for a job on which a VoiceCasting agent assists a client. Among other things such as marketing and networking, agents are available to help clients set up their projects on-site, audition and choose talent, negotiate rates, book studios if needed, collect talent payments from clients, pay talent, and keep talent tax documents in order.

Talent inclusion at VoiceCasting is by invitation only after meeting several requirements determined by the VoiceCasting management team. Requirements for inclusion include experience, credits, studio quality, industry recommendation and professional demeanor.

VOPLANET: www.voplanet.com

Contact:  Donna Summers dsummers@voplanet.com

Contact:  Robert Simmons  rsimmons@voplanet.com

US Toll free:  888-716-8806

US Donna direct:  678-481-5026

In 2006, in order to further serve the voice-over community and its clients, VOplanet was formed as a membership audition site. Donna Summers and Robert Simmons are Managers at VOplanet. Both take part in the marketing and advertising efforts of all the daily tasks to assure the site runs smoothly.

Talent and clients enjoy booking jobs directly while still having the knowledge that the experienced agents and tech support of the VOplanet team are available to help. Clients can listen to talent demos, view talent profiles which include experience/credits, training, studio capabilities, a complete list of audio demos in various categories, personal contact information including phone numbers, email and website addresses. Clients can post their projects for free directly to the VOplanet website. There they will be provided with their own confidential Audition Screening Room where talent post custom auditions reading client copy via MP3. Clients can then save the best auditions to their favorites, share the link with their clients and book the talent of their choice directly. With client to talent direct bookings, the client and talent negotiate for fees and arrange talent payment directly between themselves. No agency fees are incurred, agents are not involved, and auditions are always free.

In the event that either the talent or client involves an agent with an audition or a booking that originates at VOplanet and the agent is asked to help set up or listen to auditions, the project will then be turned over to VoiceCasting, an agent will assist with the booking, and an agency fee will be charged.

For talent at VOplanet, there are several levels of membership, some of which include a consultation, demo review and career recommendations with one of our agents. We also offer free website development and free web hosting. Our tech support is available all the time on both sites during normal business hours and there is always an agent standing by to answer general questions.

About Agency Fees: If a client and a talent go directly with each other, no agency fee is paid to VOplanet.  If a client uses the agent to help book the project, VoiceCasting steps in and an agency fee is incurred. If a talent asks an agent for help on a direct booking with a client, the agent will help in very general terms. Anytime an agent becomes involved, an agency fee will be involved. Ask first.