059: Number 1 Voice Over Artist on Fiverr – Becoming a Successful Full-time Online Freelancer (w/ Redd Horrocks)

Summary: Redd Horrocks is a professional voice over artist specializing in British and American accents with a wide range of experience across multiple forms of media including radio to commercial, phone systems, video games, podcasts, and company demo videos. She is an expert when it comes to growing an audience on sites like Fiverr.  <br> <br> She has been featured on Forbes Magazine and Business Insider as one of the top earners globally on the Fiverr website. She works out of a professional recording studio and also offers her voice over services through her company, Red Swift Media. She is also the founder of Instant Voicemails, an instant download voicemail resource. Redd has been helping people to maximize their earnings on Fiverr. <br> <br> Starting out as a professional voice over artist on Fiverr <br> <br> Redd says the Fiverr platform is a fantastic marketplace where people can buy and sell digital services with the name “Fiverr” coming from the fact that the base price on the platform is $5. The platform is suitable for professionals like logo designers, voice over artists, SEO experts and others who can provide their services digitally. She says it’s a great way to gain business and clients. <br> <br> One thing Redd likes about Fiverr is that it’s got a built-in system where people are funnelled to look at a seller’s offering and people from all over the world can find the seller without him/her doing any external marketing. The seller just finds orders in their account, works on them and delivers. <br> <br> Redd’s voice over services were initially a side gig but Fiverr enabled her to turn them into a full-time career.  <br> <br> Starting out in the voice over services space <br> <br> Redd started doing voice over while back in college when a friend of hers asked her to record a voice for his video game. She really enjoyed doing the voice and it got her interested in doing it more. Over the following years, she would do it as a favour for different people and at some point when she needed to clear her credit card debt, a friend of hers introduced her into voice over work for an audio book company. She did several books for them, and it’s around that time that she came across Fiverr.  <br> <br> Redd has a knack for cold reading scripts and switching her accent completely from British to American. The two things have enabled her to offer diverse voice over services on Fiverr for different individuals and businesses. She used to offer her voice over services on Fiverr while also working during the evenings which ended up becoming too tiresome for her so she eventually gave her employer 4 months’ notice after which she left to work full-time on Fiverr.  <br> <br> Entrepreneurial passion <br> <br> Redd has always been entrepreneurial and built several businesses including a bath and beauty company that she built up and sold. She was a co-founder on a big UX blog which she helped build and later sold her share. She also used to make pies and jam for sale. Business has always been a great passion for her and she likes to build and grow things. <br> <br> Her drive <br> <br> Redd says she is the bread winner for her family and they are the ones who motivate her to keep doing what she does every day. The voice over business enables her to work from home, spend time with her family, support them and help her husband achieve his dream.  <br> <br> Redd likes the fact that with freelancing she can grow as much as she wants which is unlike when someone has a corporate job. <br> <br> Tip: Freelancing has its cons because for example one does not get paid time off or sick days, but it’s totally worth it <br> <br> Projecting Fiverr’s value <br> <br> She had no idea Fiverr would be such a great benefit for her. She is a very methodical tracker of analytics with her work so she has details on everything she has done on Fiverr and how much money...