the importance of good Message on Hold marketing

How Message on Hold Can Help Your Business Stand Out from the Competition Message on hold is a powerful tool that can help businesses stand out from the competition. It is a cost-effective way to provide customers with information about products and services, as well as to create a positive impression of the company. When customers call a business, they …

Voiceovers for a living

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I see a lot of posts about making a living from voiceover work and I’m inclined to think these people have never done it. They paint this rosy picture about the need to have a good voice and making a motza by doing voiceovers for cartoons and the like. Well for the majority it has nothing to do with your …

Messages on hold for VOIP phone systems

The message on hold business will just get bigger In the 30 plus years the message on hold business has been in existence much has changed. Our first systems were cassettes in modified car cassette players. Long tapes with auto reverse did two things. It wore out the tape and it wore out the auto reverse mechanism.  Along came CD …

Professional Voicemail Greetings

Professional Sounds for Voicemail Greetings Finally you can have professional voicemail greetings for your mobile phone voicemail box and landline voicemail. For years the little guy has been ignored. The guy or girl who started a business on the kitchen table and used his or her home telephone and mobile phone as their shop front. The only drawback was the …

Home Studios

Why is the voiceover industry changing? Better change with it.   As a true VO person, owner of voices.com.au  I try to keep up with articles on the web about Australian Voiceover subjects. One of my favourite places is voiceovers.asia, often some very wise words come out of this site. Ever since the “pizza oven syndrome” hit the voiceover industry …

Don’t throw away your old phone.

What will the NBN mean for my old phone system. New technology like the NBN and VOIP phones bring new fears. Will this new system be mandatory and will it cost me a fortune. Relax. It’s not a scary as you thought and there is a small piece of tech that could save you lots of dollars. Going NBN is …

Why do I need a good “messages on hold”?

In the business world it’s a common practice to put the customers on hold. This is because of the hectic business activities; a person has to deal with multiple customers at the same time for which he has to put other people on hold. This can be very frustrating for a customer, according to a research customer usually hang up …