How To Survive Losing a BIG Client: Voiceover Crisis Management

Опубликовано: 20 Июнь 2026
на канале: VOPro by Paul Schmidt
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Subscribe now at: https://www.youtube.com/@vo-pro?sub_c... Crisis management in voice over is crucial to the continuity of your business. I was seven months into my full-time voiceover career and I lost my biggest and best client, one of the ones that helped me make the leap to full-time voice over.

With that phone call, 50% of my income evaporated instantly. In most cases, if you’re paying attention, you can see it coming. I was and I didn’t.

Hence, I was completely freaking out.

What in the hell was I gonna do? Well, here’s what I did and it will help you if you’re ever in a similar situation. This is your VO Crisis Management Plan.
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Paul Schmidt is a successful voice actor, community builder, and voiceover business coach.

He's also the creator of the VO Freedom Master Plan, a voiceover marketing program designed to generate consistent opportunities for voice actors to book work, and the VO Pro Community, a private, professional, global community created to meet the needs of voice actors and audiobook narrators who want to take their careers to the next level.

Paul has been a voice actor for over 25 years and full-time for the last several. He lives in beautiful Richmond, VA.