Create an Unforgettable Website with Jim Fronk: Your Custom Boss!

Are you ready to take your business to the next level? Join me as I chat with Jim Fronk, a 20-plus year radio veteran who transitioned into voice acting and website development. Jim shares his wealth of knowledge and experience in the voice acting industry, including how to turn a lifelong passion for music, radio, and video games into a successful career in voice acting. He also delves deep into the magic of website creation, including the critical elements of a voiceover website and how you can create a one-page website in record time. Plus, Jim reveals how he created his 3-Hour Learn-By-Doing Website Creation Class to help fellow voice actors build successful websites for a fraction of the cost. Don’t miss out!

Are you ready to take your business to the next level? Join me as I chat with Jim Fronk, a 20-plus year radio veteran who transitioned into voice acting and website development. Jim shares his wealth of knowledge and experience in the voice acting industry, including how to turn a lifelong passion for music, radio, and video games into a successful career in voice acting. He also delves deep into the magic of website creation, including the critical elements of a voiceover website and how you can create a one-page website in record time. Plus, Jim reveals how he created his 3-Hour Learn-By-Doing Website Creation Class to help fellow voice actors build successful websites for a fraction of the cost. Don’t miss out!

Jim has always been creative and secretively a tech geek. While working at radio stations, he gravitated towards graphic arts and webmaster duties. Through the years he created websites, not only for some of his ventures but for other radio friends and their DJ/entertainment side hustles. When Jim entered the VO world, he was amazed at how much it cost to have a basic cookie-cutter website built for a voice actor. So Jim created his 3-Hour Learn-By-Doing Website Creation Class. For a fraction of the cost, he teaches you how to create, update, and expand your own VO website as your business expands. Check out www.WebsitesForVO.com for more details.

Jim has been behind the microphone since he was 10 years old, singing classic rock and even winning Ed McMahon’s nextbigstarcom rock category in 2000. He has also done improv, stand-up comedy, live announcing, and DJing on air. Now, Jim is in his very own 5×8 padded closet capturing our hearts with his dynamic performances and engaging characters. Get ready to be inspired, entertained, and educated by Jim’s wealth of knowledge and experience in the voice acting industry!

About Jim

04:33 – Jim Fronk (Guest) When I was in high school, I was at a party. Little did I know that this party would be the start of my journey into radio. I was a senior, it was a junior’s party. He was trying to be class president and I was just there being me. I mean, I am your extrovert, you know I talk to everybody, I say hi to everybody. It gets me in trouble sometimes, but whatever. But I was just being me and this guy walked up and said hey, listen, I’m the lawyer of this small little cable radio station downtown Woburn, which is my hometown. He goes do you want to try out?

I was intrigued, so I went home the next day. I got my Peter Brady tape recorder. We have to hold down the record and you know what I’m talking about. I also had my Precorp eight track player, my stereo system at home, and yes, I’m name dropping here. With Precorp I put in Led Zeppelin and you know I talked out of a Led Zeppelin song and I had to wait because you couldn’t rewind eight tracks so you only had one take. Well, you had to wait for the next song. It took me all afternoon to get like three intros and three outros and I ended up getting the gig, which was kind of cool. They made me change my name. They didn’t want anybody to know that a high school kid was working at school, but yet they gave me like one of those shiny, flashy 80s type of radio jackets with my name on it and the call letters and I did J at all the high school functions and things. So everybody knew.

I was Jumping Jim Jacobs, 935-3378, wlhg. Wow, larry Habar Enterprises. I love it. Larry lives two towns away from me right now. We had lunch about a month ago. The owner of the station. I was fascinated by radio. I loved listening to it and I wanted to be like the DJs because they got all the chicks. Apparently that’s what it was back in the 80s anyways. I heard of Dale Dorman, he’s a Boston guy from KISS, and he and one other guy invented top 40 radio. They were at a bar one night and they watched people put quarters in to hear the same 15, 20 songs all night long.

I just wanted to be like Dale Dorman and I just set focus on it and I ended up doing it. I met Dale Dorman. The program director of the small station I worked for was the assistant PD of KISS 108 Boston and that’s where Dale Dorman was, and she brought us in for a program meeting and God, my mind was just blown at that point and I said this is what I need to do. Got out of high school, I went to college for it, went to school for it, interned, did many, many years, and it was like here.

I got out of radio for about 10 years 15 years, and I did stand up comedy and I always talked about getting on the air again, because if I’m doing morning radio, I can’t hear them not laughing when. I tell jokes, I just play a soundtrack. So I turned 35 and I said, you know, what Everybody laughs then yeah, exactly. I turned 35 and said I have to do this, so I just put everything else aside and I did it.

Most of the people working in radio couldn’t afford it, so they were teachers. It’s always been the case in radio, it’s always been maybe not the best paying gig, but the people in radio love radio. It’s like being in an abusive relationship. It really is. I was doing mornings in Nashua, new Hampshire, which is about 30 miles away from Boston, as the crow flies, about a 40 minute trip. My salary compared to somebody doing the exact same thing on the exact same type of station, they probably were about five or six times more than I was making Just the average guy. Now if you became a star then you’re up in the quarter of a million dollars in Boston market but not in Nashua. But I loved it and you got the perks I mean I’d go to concerts, I’d be backstage, at concerts. My favorite thing was going on stage and throwing t-shirts out at people and saying, hey, I’m frog from Frank 106 or from 104.9 the Hawk, and people scream and they know me and I just love that. I really love that. Just being a part of the community. I was very fortunate that the morning show I did for 106, 3 Frank FM I was part of the community. I would announce football games. My daughter did cheerleading but I would announce the popcorn of football games and I would go and people would know who I was. But I was very active in the community and I’d love that. I love being known. I was like a local celebrity.

It’s the same thing with radio. It was just something that I needed to do. I needed to have that live interaction and as far as the money goes, it’s kind of like VO. It depends what market that you’re being planned in. I was able to take that celebrityism and put it to good work as opposed to evil. Delilah’s on the air forever, but I got into radio and I’m still here.

90s. Oh sorry. 

10:12 – Anne Ganguzza (Host) And that’s another podcast. 

10:14 – Jim Fronk (Guest) Yeah, I don’t think the ever straining owners are up yet for that one, so we really can’t talk about it. 

10:18 – Anne Ganguzza (Host) Well, now 20 years in radio, 20 years 20 plus, yeah Now did you say you were doing synonyms, that you were doing radio, and then you went into comedy, or how did that work? 

Jim Fronk had a passion for the entertainment industry from a young age. After high school, he started his own karaoke company and had 35 shows. He then took a leap of faith and tried out for a radio station, and got the gig. He then went on to do stand-up comedy, hosting a show at Berkeley with 5,000 seats. He experienced the highs and lows of stand-up comedy, but the reaction from the crowd was his drug. He then moved on to flying drones, investing more money in drones than in his microphone. But he still craved the interaction and went back to his passion of being behind the microphone. He got some training from Tim Powers and started marketing himself. He has since redone his demos and is a different animal now.

Jim’s advice to everyone is to not be afraid to approach anyone in the industry. He believes that it’s all about the relationships and making connections. He also believes that if someone is not approachable, then they don’t need to be in your circle.

Jim has come a long way since his days in the 90s. He has experienced the highs and lows of the entertainment industry, but his passion and drive have kept him going. He is now a successful voice actor and is an inspiration to many.

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When Jim Fronk was deciding between getting out of the drones and going to school for graphic arts, he was faced with a difficult decision. He was thinking to himself, “It’s a three-year program, $36,000. I’ll be 58 when I graduate. Do I really want to enter that type of field where I’m so far behind technology wise than the kids are these days?” Jim decided that his “happy place” was behind the microphone, so that’s what he did. He has since designed his own websites using Wix, and he has become a master of the platform.

Jim has found that many people need to be taught how to use Wix, so he has created a three-hour “do it yourself, learn by doing” creation class. By the end of the three hours, participants should have a one-page voiceover specific website ready to go, ready to be hosted. Jim also offers a service to build a website for someone, but it is twice the money. He also offers an hourly stipend to be someone’s web guy.

Jim has also done some work for his friend Dave Fanoy. Dave’s website was terrible, with no downloadable demos, links that went to expired events, and the latest event was from 2019. Jim decided to do a deep dive into Dave’s website and completely revamped it. He taught Dave how to use Wix to do all the ticketing, ticket sales, marketing, and social marketing.

Jim believes that there are certain crucial items that a website needs, and they should all be above the fold. These include downloadable demos, your name, something that shows your personality, your contact info, and a call to action button. Jim believes that the call to action button is the most important, as it is what will get people to take action.

Jim also believes that SEO is important, and he recommends that people have someone write the SEO for them.

Critical Items for a Voiceover Website

The world of SEO is changing rapidly, with generative AI generating content in seconds. It used to mean something to have identifying words and phrases that could be found, but now the SEO game is changing. Wix is a great example of a program that makes website creation user friendly, and Canva has changed the game. But what about VO actors? How can they change the game to make it successfully in voiceover?

Jim Fronk, our guest, has some great advice for VO actors. He suggests that they be authentic, show their range and emotion, be the person that people want to work with, and be fun and happy. He also recommends that they double brand their name and keep their domain names simple. Additionally, Jim suggests that VO actors get out there and talk to people, make friends, and go to conferences. He also encourages them to find someone who is extroverted if they are not, and to find him if they need help making connections.

Jim also offers a great deal for his website creation class. He is offering our bosses 10% off with the promo code VEOBOSS10. To learn more, visit Jim’s website at JimFronk.com.

At the end of the episode, Anne Ganguzza, the host, reminds us that we can make a difference by visiting 100VoicesWhoCare.org. She also encourages us to network and connect like bosses, just like Jim has been talking about all episode. To find out more, visit IPDTL.com.

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