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6 min 44 sec

Choreographer Moonlights as Voiceover Artist

You won’t voice any objections when you hear how this freelancer uses her theatre training to earn six-figures after hours.
Fiverr Voiceover

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What It's About

A music theatre director takes her own cues and makes over six figures as a voice actress on Fiverr.

Business Model
Service
Skills Required
Voice Acting & Marketing
Complexity
Low
Profit Potential
Medium

Words of Wisdom

Looking to start your own Fiverr career, Kate's got some helpful tips; "Fiverr is always a bit of a guessing game since I don’t always know exactly what’s being weighted in the algorithm at any given moment. Investing in solid equipment, tending to messages and reviews as quickly as possible, and constantly improving my product has truly the best way to ensure success."

Fun Fact

Kate offered to buy her colleague dinner in exchange for her getting a behind the scenes look at what voice artists do. That was her first encounter with voice-over work, and the rest as they say, is history.

Notes from Chris

Episode 1212

Kate Quinn has never known a life without freelancing. Back in 2016 she was working a full-time job as a choreographer at a theatre while running her own independent fitness business. One day, she decided she wanted to produce some video content to share on her website. As she began to bring her ideas to life, she realized she needed someone to do voice-over work for those videos. Turning to her network, she asked a colleague at the theater if he might be able to help.

Going through this process made Kate curious. She wanted to learn more about how voiceover gigs worked. So, in exchange for dinner, that colleague offered to show her everything that he was doing behind the scenes.

Kate invested a few hundred dollars to get started, picking up a decent microphone and learning as she went along. She also found some free editing software that offered a solid starting point.

Now she was ready to start recording, but where to get her first customers? She thought about where she was already buying services, and one of those places was Fiverr. Fiverr is an online marketplace for freelance services where users can list small one-off jobs. It was originally designed with the idea that any job would cost just $5, though now jobs can start at any dollar value.

Having had a good experience as a buyer, Kate opened a seller account. As she created her listing, she was mindful to make sure that it was attractive. Her photos had to look great, her descriptions had to be thorough, and the services she offered clearly listed.

Creating a really attractive, well put together seller profile was key to her success. In March 2016, Fiverr served up her first client, and she put the equipment she had purchased to good use. Everything worked as planned, and Kate realized that this could be the start of something big. The more gigs she completed, the more the reviews started to pour in. As people raved about her work, her ranking on Fiverr’s internal algorithm rose.

To Kate, that’s the beauty of Fiverr. When she does her job well and presents clear information, the marketing takes care of itself. As she says, “the platform values excellent work, reviews and clicks, so the better your product and the more people rate you well, the more likely you are to be visible to buyers.”

While she still faces the occasional difficulty with customers and hard to pronounce words—especially when narrating in medical-related videos—Kate has never stopped working hard. She knows it’s worth it when she hears herself in corporate voicemails for companies she uses, or on Spotify marketing various companies. In October, Kate’s business hit six figures for the first time.

 
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