Your Email Preceeds You . . .

Yup, I've done it. I've come up with what I thought was a brilliant idea and turns out it wasn't. My email address preceeded me - a few times. I put some attitude in my email address, thinking it was a smart marketing move. (Hand hits forehead, eyes roll back in retrospect). This proves I am not anywhere near perfect, but one thing I have learned is that a professional email is a good thing. Even an email that may not necessarily have your own web domain, but certainly one that says what you do or who you are. I am of the school that a business email address shouldn't contain profanity, off color names, or off the mark words that are not descriptive of you and your voice/production/recording or whatever type of business as an artist. Things that might not belong in your voicover business email address (and I'll keep it clean) could be things like Buff, Busty, B*tch, Fat, Flabby, Gassy, Burpy, Babe, Hunk, sexy, sterile, nasty, and cornstarch.. And I think we could all name examples of addresses far more colorful than that.

My point is that you are always selling your talent. So does your email convey your business talent? Or other attribute, body part, or does it better belong on a dating stie? Me thinks business talent is the correct answer.