What about an "I'm available" feature?
Fiverr just launched a feature on their site that let's you select when you are available for work and I thought that would be an ideal feature for a service like VoiceBunny! Often times we, as pros, will get pitched audition offers for Contests, Backups, or Speedies when we are not available. Either at jobs, school, or out of the house. However, when I am sitting in front of my computer, ready to record, it would be optimal to be able to mark myself as "Available" for projects.
Consider the efficiency!
You get better QC. With talent standing by ready to accept a job, they are in "Voiceover mode" and not rushing to drop what they're doing to accept a gig.
You get better quality voiceovers! Your full time voice talent will be participating in more auditions.
You get faster responses with voice talent actively working at that moment!
You get happier clients!
Most of all, you get happier and more loyal BunnyPros! We have all been in the situation where we get pitched an audition at 6:36 in the morning or we are working on voiceovers and then we leave to run an errand and THAT is when an audition comes in. Murphy's Law, right?
With a feature at the top of the menu bar, we can select that we are available and working. I'm not saying it would exclude other Bunny Pros, but it might give priority to those of us who ARE available and ready to work.
Obviously, the goal is to get more bookings and that is the driving force for Bunny Pros, but I feel like this feature really could make VoiceBunny much more lucrative for all involved and increase the quality of the Contests, Backups, and Speedys.
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Perhaps this idea, in combination with the ability to mark ourselves 'out' or 'unavailable' in increments of time rather than an entire day. I have several clients who book me on particular days and times and it would be great to be able to plug those days/times into VB to show I'm available part of the day, but not all. Of course, this also may require that once a VB file is submitted, the review is done in a timely fashion (less that four hours). It's frustrating to put up a contest or speedy at 7 p.m. and then hear back, after I"ve gone to bed, that a revision is requested. Because of this, I've just stopped accepting work at certain times, knowing I may not hear back in enough time, just in case. Thanks for proposing this Josh.
Hi Josh and Dawn!
This is a great idea and we've been thinking about on a way to implement a solution for this. I'll definitely bring your idea on how we can execute this to our team! Would you say we should add a button, or how do you think would be the best way for this to happen?
All ideas are welcome :) We love brainstorming with you!
Angela, Fiverr's feature is actually pretty helpful and could be built upon. It's a button and you set a time duration. For example, if I know I have to pick the kids up, I can set myself available until 3:15pm. It would actually be a brilliant addition. Unfortunately, for me, I'm not able to focus as much on VB because the offers don't usually come when I'm available. This could be revolutionary.
I love this idea! It would be fantastic and save a lot of Grrr moments when I'm just getting into the car, or at my day job, and see a contest with a juicy script pop up in my email.
This would be an awesome feature!
Thanks for your thoughts, guys! I'll definitely share it with the team to see what we can do on this front :) You guys rock!
Initially, I didn't see the appeal here. And I'm still not sure that it would be used responsibly by many, because people are desperate to work and are likely to cut every corner to give themselves a leg up.
On the other hand, if there were a stick attached to the carrot...it might be refined over time to be very effective. It could be opened to all initially...but there should probably be some sort of three-strikes policy...so that, if people are just leaving it on, but they have work come in and don't respond within some set period of time (at least to accept the job)...maybe a couple hours...if this happens 3 times (or maybe as many as 5...), I'd say maybe they get frozen out of future use of it, because they abused the system and made it pointless.
Just something to think about.
Great point, Chuck. The feature on Fiverr actually kicks you out of the "I'm Available" feature if you fail to respond. I think they freeze you out for a month or something like that. I'm not sure how the parameters work. I'm not sure if it is once or a set number of times. But that IS a great idea to add that feature. Brilliant input, Chuck!