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Our Best Business Tool Ever? – Batchbook, our CRM!

July 15, 2015 by Rosi Amador

The Best Business Tool We’ve Ever Adopted? Batchbook, Our CRM!

Several years ago, after many years of touring the country with our Latin band, Sol y Canto and then officially launching Amador Bilingual Voiceovers, we just couldn’t keep our growing contact list and details for each job organized efficiently. It was nuts! We struggled along until we learned about CRM’s, or “Customer Relationship Management”.

We began our research of all the CRM’s available at that time and chose BATCHBOOK. We are SO glad we did. It was a game changer for us.

Here’s a snippet of their explainer video (click below) which I’m thrilled to have voiced. I was so tickled their super friendly staff asked me to do this. Hope you like it.

“We’re stepping up our marketing efforts and really needed a professional, quality voiceover… A deep part of our philosophy is authenticity, so we needed our voice to convey real warmth from a person we know to have a strong character. Rosi to the rescue! We are so happy with and grateful for her artful work. Apparently our customers are too, as we’re seeing remarkable engagement from the video. The impression it leaves with our customers is priceless.”

– Pamela O’Hara, CEO Batchbook

Gracias to Pamela O’Hara for this kind testimonial. I’m telling you *everyone* they are incredibly nice! They all feel like friends to us.

Batchbook promises “organized bliss” and you know what? It’s TRUE! New clients send us inquiries that pop right into their record, as do our “Letters of Agreement” and we now easily keep track of our voiceover jobs no matter how many come in. Plus it’s integrated with social media and so much more.

And it’s so easy to generate reports to help us know if we’re making progress or to contact folks. It’s rather miraculous to be honest. It helps our team to work together better than ever.

The best part is their customer service! The folks at Batchbook really care about us and have come to know us personally, after helping us with our slow learning curve. We’ve been running smoothly for years now. It’s a joy to use Batchbook for both of our businesses and I couldn’t recommend it more highly to anyone reading this.

Brian and I and our fabulous staff all LOVE working with Batchbook. Check out what they have to say:

“Batchbook streamlines every job so we can go to one place to meet our clients’ wishes and it enables us to work as a team seamlessly.”

– Brian Amador, Bilingual Voice Actor/ Principal/ Guitarist/ Composer & Chef Extraordinaire

CRM Batchbook Testimonial “I like how the list functionality allows me to analyze and sort data about our clients and allows me to easily generate reports.”

– Camilo Gómez, Senior Engineer/ Mr. Analytics/ Granola-lover

“Batchbook is able to keep track of all my communication with our clients with a click of the send button!”

– Leslie Rivera, Operations/ Studio Manager/ Ms. Organization/Ms. Friendly to the Max

By the way, after you click on their 2-minute tour you can sign up FREE for a 30 day trial. Incidentally, I am not getting any commissions on this. I just like sharing a good thing with fellow entrepreneurs who could be reading this. It ain’t easy. This helps!

– Me, Rosi Amador, Bilingual Voice Actor/ Principal/ Latin Vocalist & Percussionist/ Idea Lady /Twin Mami

Let me know what great business tool you’ve implemented if you’re so moved in the comments section! I’d love to hear from you. And of course, if you’d be so kind as to share this post I’d be very grateful. Have a great summer!

Voice Actors for Congress!

April 15, 2015 by Brian Amador

I’ve often said that one of the most pleasant surprises for Rosi and me when we shifted from full-time music to full-time voiceover was the amazingly supportive community we discovered. Largely as a result of the Faffcon un-conferences we’ve attended almost yearly for several years, we’ve been welcomed into a tribe of professional voice actors who constantly go out of their way to help each other.

We’ve also seen how friendships seem to transcend differences of background and political orientation. In fact, our community of people who work with their voices is one of the only places I’ve seen that kind of comity lately. Of course one of the reasons for this is that we don’t talk politics much! But I can’t help but feel that I could have a vigorous political discussion with any number of my colleagues whose views differ drastically from my own without us screaming, cursing, insulting or yelling at each other, the types of political “communication” that seem to be most common these days on the Internet and in our culture at large. And unlike our government, this community is actually capable of coming together to work toward common goals. We’ve seen the birth and growth of networks such as World Voices, Voxy Ladies, and Faffcon itself, which promote the development of their members and uphold the standards and recognition of the value of professional voice work, while also giving back to their communities in the form of generous support and promotion of the work of charitable organizations.

I know this conviviality is not universal in the voiceover world. I’ve been told that in the world of commercial voiceover, especially at the national level, there’s plenty of backstabbing, and colleagues in other countries have expressed envy of how supportive our community is. Nor do I want to paint too rosy a picture of our slice of the VO world. We have disagreements, sometimes heated ones. There are jealousies and animosities. But we can talk to each other, and that’s a big deal.

Very recently I had the honor of voicing the Spanish version of the introductory video for Boston’s Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate. The Institute’s inauguration early this month featured a “Who’s who” of Democratic politicians: Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Elizabeth Warren, to name a few; but John McCain and Trent Lott were also there to pay tribute to their old adversary and friend. And that tribute was heartfelt. When John McCain said “I miss my friend,” it was clear that he meant it. The contrast with today’s Congress could hardly have been more stark. There used to be politicians on both sides of the aisle capable of putting aside deep differences to work toward common goals. Today they don’t seem to be interested in finding any common goals.

Perhaps someday our politics will move away from fear, blame, hatred, resentment, and putting up obstacles to anything that could allow the other side to claim an achievement. In the meantime, I take inspiration from my VO colleagues. Maybe we CAN reach out and try to understand those who disagree with us. And maybe we can lead from the bottom up.

Bilingual Overdubs for L’Oreal Paris – Empowering Women

January 20, 2015 by Rosi Amador

Defending women’s rights and empowering women are missions I strongly believe in that took flight during my life-changing days at Bryn Mawr College, so it was such an honor for me to voice for L’Oreal Paris all of last year. Every Wednesday, I had the pleasure of recording bilingual overdubs in English and Spanish for L’Oreal’s weekly international podcast series featuring the voices of their leaders from around the globe.

I found their L’Oreal Foundation’s “For Women in Science Program” (in partnership with UNESCO), which provides support for women researchers, particularly inspiring. I frequently recorded with Brian, and occasionally our daughter Sonia participated, which was even more fun.

It was enticing to me to voice how new, environmentally-sensitive products are being sustainably produced, and how these can empower global communities of women to look and feel their best.

I’d love to know what you think of the podcast samples and this “Projects We Love” highlight, so please email me, Rosi, via our website!

Incidentally, last July we were so lucky to meet the podcasts’ producers in person at Goom Social Radio Factory headquarters in Paris. Merçi Juliette et Laura!

-Rosi Amador, Principal
Amador Bilingual Voiceovers
www.amadorbilingualvoiceovers.com
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Rosi as Narrator for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

December 24, 2013 by Brian Amador

Rosi Amador was Selected as bilingual narrator for U.S.
Department of Health & Human Services’ Healthcare 411 en la Radio.

Through a highly competitive audition process, Rosi was selected as the new female narrator of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ weekly news series called Health Care 411.
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Our Best Business Tool Ever? – Batchbook, our CRM!

The Best Business Tool We’ve Ever Adopted? Batchbook, Our CRM!

Voice Actors for Congress!

Bilingual Overdubs for L’Oreal Paris – Empowering Women

Rosi as Narrator for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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