Tara Flynn’s running the NYC Marathon on the 1st of November, and raising funds for the Alzheimer’s Society.  If you can spare 5 or 10 euro (you’ll go to heaven when you die)…. donate here.

Yeah obviously. Even my mum’s on facebook.  Well anyway, we started a facebook group. Find us, we’re under the name Piehole.  It’s for ad industry folk and voiceovers alike.  The plan is to bring the two groups together. For Piehole VOs - if you have comps to any shows you’re doing, and would like to promote yourself and show off your acting talents, you can get the ad industry to go and watch you.  We’re going to use the facebook group for that type of thing.  So get your butt in there, it’s lonely without you.

Finally got the new website up and running. My buddy Ian Armstrong had put the original blurb up in 2001 but of course since then technology has gone sky high. I remember the audio quality and limits on the amount of samples you could put up was really frustrating on the 1^st site, but you must remember, most of us were on the steam engine dial up system then.

Anyway; last January, talking rubbish over a few pints turned in to “ You really should update that site you know”,  resulting in poor Ian nearly having a nervous breakdown as his friend suddenly turned into the client from hell!

But we got the design and content sorted and I began to regret the photo opportunities I had missed over the past 8 years – people I had in studio and never bothered to get the camera out, E.G. Alan Stanford, Joe Dolan, Brian McGuigan of McGuigan Wines, Derek Davis, Joe Deane, Pakie O’callaghan & Frank Toomey to mention a few. However, let there be no panic……………….the camera is now a permanent fixture in the studio and photos will be uploaded faster than you can say “Cheese”.

Check out the new site please, I’d love to get comments, suggestions, ideas, hate mail…

Play Pat’s voice over demo.

Don’t miss Jim in this new show. From the creators of the 2007 Fringe hit Gerry and the Peace Process and the upcoming Channel 4 comedy pilot iCandy comes a brand new comedy sketch show. Meet a bunch of hilarious characters: a Dutch mountaineer with a taste for human flesh, an eastern European doorman who wants to be on Fair City, and the first traveller Taoiseacht who vows to fight his way out of the recession… literally. Louis Theroux takes us on some REALLY weird weekends, Peter Stringfellow unveils a community outreach programme from his tabledancing club and Orson Welles goes undercover with the world’s most dangerous gangs.
Listen to Jim’s voice over demo.

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Welcome to the 21st century.  You can now have money appear magically in your bank account without ever leaving your chair.  Well, almost.  Millions of euro is made each year by voiceovers who are contacted online - via the web.  If you have a Piehole page, you have a chance to get a slice of some of this action by being found by Google.  Here are some tips.

1)  Use your ‘Share This’ button

On your home page, there is a ‘Share This’ button.  Click it and you’ll get a snazzy list of the latest and greatest ways to share your page.  Each time you do this you improve your personal pages ranking in Google, meaning you are more likely to appear in the search giants cross hairs.  Goolge cross hairs = money from voiceover work.  If you have a facebook account, click the facebook icon that pops up.  If you have a bebo icon, click the bebo icon.  You get the idea.  Share on as many of the icons as you can to improve your chances.

2)  Blog your little bleating heart out

If you have a blog or a personal website, make sure you link to your Piehole profile.  By doing this you are boosting your pages profile and helping to drive more traffic / potential customers.  One tip from the top is to link using the words my voiceover profile.  Having the word ‘voiceover’ in the link tells Google that your open for voiceover business.

3)  Ignore all of the above

The great news is, that if none of that makes any sense to you - simply ask someone who is down with the internet kidz.  Ask your children, nerdy friends and strangers in the street to ‘link to my page on piehole’ to help your ranking.