How To Set Up a Voice Acting BUSINESS for Beginners

Stop hoping talent is enough. Here’s how to protect your VO career and start earning like a pro!

This video is your guide to turning your voice over side hustle into a legitimate business. Discover the business setup essentials, must-have legal contracts, and tax tips every creative needs to escape the hobbyist trap.

Step confidently into your full-time VO future, attract better clients, and avoid disasters that can cost you gigs, or even your dream.

Get Your EIN from the IRS: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/get-an-employer-identification-number

📥 Grab your free VO Business Setup Checklist: https://welcome.vopro.pro/business-setup-checklist

🌟 VO, LLC™: https://vopro.pro/vollc

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About (Paul) Schmidt:
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

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