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hi there!
I'm in the process right now of act, assess and adjust.
I do voicework (meditations, guided audios, etc). I'm in the process of adjusting my business plan for narrating audiobooks by offering narration on a royalty basis only and scrapping my hourly rate completely (hourly = slowlane, I now understand). I have noticed that a lot of authors find the hourly fees for narrators a significant barrier to launching their own audiobook versions.
If I work with a royalty-only set up, it would potentially fill a need for authors to access audiobook narration much sooner rather than later.
The interesting thing is that as soon as I thought of doing it as royalty-only, it switched the focus from the money side of things (hourly rate) to focusing on quality production. I do always my best job anywway, but this kind of pushed the envelope more. I'm not sure if I'm imaginging this, but could it be that the hourly rate comes with a tiny bit of entitlement to it? Meaning that *I know* I'd be getting a fixed hourly fee, but the customer doesn't know exactly what quality they would be receving. Just thinking about this, it's very interesting.
Anyway, would love any feedback, but as it stands am right now reaching out to authors to see if there is indeed the need and tweaking the current production process, so that it can be even better service-wise.
thanks in advance!
I'm in the process right now of act, assess and adjust.
I do voicework (meditations, guided audios, etc). I'm in the process of adjusting my business plan for narrating audiobooks by offering narration on a royalty basis only and scrapping my hourly rate completely (hourly = slowlane, I now understand). I have noticed that a lot of authors find the hourly fees for narrators a significant barrier to launching their own audiobook versions.
If I work with a royalty-only set up, it would potentially fill a need for authors to access audiobook narration much sooner rather than later.
The interesting thing is that as soon as I thought of doing it as royalty-only, it switched the focus from the money side of things (hourly rate) to focusing on quality production. I do always my best job anywway, but this kind of pushed the envelope more. I'm not sure if I'm imaginging this, but could it be that the hourly rate comes with a tiny bit of entitlement to it? Meaning that *I know* I'd be getting a fixed hourly fee, but the customer doesn't know exactly what quality they would be receving. Just thinking about this, it's very interesting.
Anyway, would love any feedback, but as it stands am right now reaching out to authors to see if there is indeed the need and tweaking the current production process, so that it can be even better service-wise.
thanks in advance!
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