Lack of project invites
Hello! I'm fairly new here and was getting contests and speedies opportunities a lot in the beginning. Unfortunately, a lot of them were in the middle of the night while I was sleeping; so by the time I was able to audition, they were closed. The contests that I have auditioned for I have won 2 out of 3 with both being 5 star reviews. I have also completed at least 5 speedies but now, over the last week, I haven't gotten anything at all. I wanted to see if there may be a reason why I am not getting anything at all now or if there is anything I can do? Thank you in advance for your help!
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Hello Tiffany!
Thank you so much for reaching out here!
I was checking your stats in order to see what might be causing that lack of invitations for you, and I have a couple of ideas:
At the moment, the ones that need the most work are your Contest stats and your Response speed stats. To improve the contest stats, the best advice is to only participate in contests that you believe you are a great fit for, so you will have a better chance to be selected by the client! In regards to Response speed, the best advice here is to work quickly on projects as soon as you get them. A good number to strive towards is 25 minutes since that could be more than enough if you accept a project when you have your setup ready to record. Still, if you had any project that took you longer to do because you had any issues with the platform or you were getting the hang of things, please share it with us in order to review it with the team and see if we can do something so it doesn't affect your stats.
I also checked your rates but they are really good and competitive, so I think the best bet now is to focus on improving stats.
Let me know if this helps or if you have any other questions!
Kind regards,
Daniel
Thank you for looking into that! For the contest stats, there were 6 that I auditioned for, but 2 of those the client canceled the job-does that effect our stats? The other 2 were rejected which I understand effects stats. The rejections I was still figuring out, because I would submit 2 different auditions in almost the same time with nothing changed and one would get rejected but the other gets accepted. I'm not new to VO, but again, I'm new to here so getting over the hump of how you guys do things is a learning curve. For the contest response rates (and even revision resubmissions), the times that I sometimes get the notifications that I was awarded the job or that a revision is requested is not always an ideal time but I have been getting them done quickly within a few hours depending on the time of day that I get the notification--which I thought was good timing?? If the notifications come in late then I get it done first thing the next morning. I know we want to be quick, but I thought if we stayed under the time deadline of the project that was good, which I have been doing? I would love to be able to increase my stats in those areas, but I'm going on a week an a half now and I haven't gotten any project invites at all, so it wont be possible to do so without the invites. What would your recommendation be?
Hello Tiffany!
Thanks for all that detailed info.
In regards to the client-canceled and rejected projects, could you please share those with me? I want to make sure that they are not affecting your stats.
Also, regarding jobs that might come at odd hours, please share those with us a swell since we know that the different timezones that our clients and Pros might have can have an impact on response time, and we are more than happy to review cases and consider if we can ignore from your stats projects with long delays as well.
And in the matter of response time, a couple of hours is actually not that good, although we understand it is normal response time for a lot of people, our top pros tend to have response times under 1 hour (sometimes even under half an hour) so that might be causing that lack of project invitations as well.
Let me know about those canceled projects so I can look into them for you! If you can provide the project IDs that would be great :)
Kind regards,
Daniel
Thank you for checking on this for me!
The cancelled project ID's are: 353B0094F4746D756863 and 19321FDC680352965865
The rejected projects are: 394B2F33603685821453 and 1976B82FBD956AE2DCE4 and 306620578170FC72C084
For the odd hours, I tried to go back and check the times of previous jobs but it only gives me how long ago in days but no times. I'll start to keep track of that in the future! I appreciate the insight on the response times and what is considered most desirable, and I will work on that for the future (once I start getting project invites again)! Thank you again!
Hi Tiffany,
Thanks for sharing the project info with me!
I made sure that the canceled projects are not affecting you and, after careful consideration, our team has decided to ignore those rejections from your stats as well.
Please let us know in the future about any projects that arrive at odd hours so we can help you with those too!
Let me know if I can do anything else for you today!
Kind regards,
Daniel
You are amazing! Thank you!
You are welcome TIffany, I hope that you have a wonderful day!