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BusinessVoice Named The Judges’ Choice!

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

It’s always nice to be recognized by your peers. We had that honor once again this past weekend during the On Hold Messaging Association’s annual MARCE Awards ceremony.

BusinessVoice received two of the five awards presented, and the only two Judge’s Choice awards for favorite On Hold Messaging production.

Judge Mike Kurtz from the University of Dayton’s Media Production Group wrote that the On Hold Messaging we created for Discount Parts Exchange…

“…has a great mix of humor and relevant information. Even though I have never had any contact with Discount Parts Exchange, I already have a positive image of them. Their production creates an image of a friendly and helpful organization. The voice talent is excellent and seems to be a great fit for their target audience. The messages are short and intermixed with music so that they do not overwhelm the listener. I wouldn’t mind being on hold with this production.”

(Click here to listen to our fun On Hold Messaging for Discount Parts Exchange.)

Judge Dave Savage, Station Branding Manager for the Clear Channel radio group, selected our entry for Amazing Space as his Judge’s Choice Award. He wrote…

“Love the concept. On the surface it seems like normal, everyday on hold messaging, but what the voiceover is saying is VERY different. Great idea!”

(Listen to our humorous On Hold Messaging production for Amazing Space here.)

According to the On Hold Messaging Association’s website, “the MARCE Awards is the only competition that encourages and rewards creative and marketing excellence among On Hold Messaging providers exclusively. In doing so, we hope to raise the creative and marketing standards of all OHM companies and the expectations of clients and their callers. For these reasons, the MARCE Award is a coveted symbol of industry leadership.”

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Fun On Hold Marketing Wins at Addy Awards

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

We won a Bronze award earlier tonight at the Advertising Club of Toledo’s 2010 Addy Awards. Our winning entry was a humorous On Hold Marketing production we created for Discount Parts Exchange. Click the play button below to listen.

Congratulations to our good friend Mark Reiter, owner of Level 2 Audio. Projects he contributed to earned nine Addy Awards, PLUS a Judge’s Choice Award and the coveted Best of Show Addy. It was a well-deserved 11-award night for this very talented sound designer / recording engineer!

We also send our congratulations to Martha Vetter, CEO of R/P Marketing Public Relations. Martha was named the recipient of the 2010 Silver Medal Award, the Ad Club’s highest honor.

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“What I Want For Christmas!”

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

We invite you to take 90-second Christmas vacation…without leaving your chair.

Click here to watch a fun video featuring most of the BusinessVoice staff.

We’re so thankful for all our clients, and the opportunity to do work that we love every day. What a blessing!

Merry Christmas, and may 2010 be a wonderful year for you and yours.

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We’re Thankful for Crystal Awards

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

We received an early Thanksgiving gift last week – a pair of Crystal Awards of Excellence from the The Association for Women In Communications. Their annual Crystal Awards gala was held November 17th to “honor Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan communications professionals for excellence in advertising, collateral materials, design, digital media, industry self-promotion, photography, public relations, TV/radio and writing for news or P.R.”

Creative Consultant Jessica Miller  wrote one of our Crystal-winning entries for COR Packaging and Box in Toledo. You can listen to the On Hold Marketing production here.

Our in-house web division, WebArt, won a Crystal Award for the website we designed and built for American Warming and Ventilating. See the site here. We also won five Merit Awards, so it was a pretty good night.

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Winning With Humor On Hold

Friday, October 30th, 2009

We just won another MarCom Gold Award for a humorous On Hold Marketing production we created for Walter’s Goodyear in Mission Viejo, California.  If you need a giggle, click here to listen.  

We’d like to help you win with humor on hold too.  By “hooking” callers with humor, we can keep them engaged longer.  A funny approach can also make a lasting impression on your current and prospective customers, differentiating your company from your competitors. And when callers are entertained by what they’re hearing, they’ll perceive their hold times to be much shorter. (Here’s one reason that’s so important.)

Want to win with humor on hold? Give us a call: 866/473-9000. Listen to other samples of humorous On Hold Marketing.

By the way, the MarCom Awards recognizes outstanding creative achievement by marketing and communication professionals. The international competition is administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, an organization which consists of several thousand creative professionals. Nearly 5,000 entries from around the United States and several foreign countries were submitted to the 2009 competition. For more details, visit www.marcomawards.com.

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Everything You’ve Always Wanted To Know About Jerry…Almost

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Jerry Brown still doesn’t like talking about the years he spent as one of four conjoined quadruplets…or the farming accident that  brought about  their abrupt separation. ”Finding turtlenecks with four head holes was really tough,” he recalls with obvious pain, “but it was nice to always have three fellas to tell your troubles to.”

You’ll learn about other aspects of  the BusinessVoice president’s life when you read his interview in the October issue of Toledo Business Review.

By the way, Harry, Larry and Barry Brown – Jerry’s once-connected brothers – all work on separate elephant farms in the Niagara Falls area. “We still get together a few times a year,” says Jerry. “Well, we don’t actually get together. You know what I mean.”

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Buckeye Chose Jerry

Monday, March 24th, 2008

BusinessVoice President Jerry Brown is featured as a satisfied customer in Buckeye TeleSystem’s new “We Chose Buckeye” campaign. Check out Jerry’s TV spot, his billboard, and his web ad.

Jerry is taking full advantage of his new celebrity. He’s signed on to appear on next season’s “Dancing With The Stars,” he’s already penning his tell-all autobiography, and he’s launching his own line of popcorn and spaghetti sauce.

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Three ADDY Night

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

We were very proud to be recognized at last week’s Addy Awards ceremony, presented by The Advertising Club of Toledo. We submitted three On Hold Messaging productions and won three awards – 1 gold Addy and 2 silver Addys.

Our in-house Web division, WebArt, was also acknowledged. They received an Honorable Mention for their creation of the Tuffy Auto Service Centers website

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Feed Your Mind And Fight World Hunger Too!

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

If you do any kind of writing for your job, you know that a rich vocabulary is an important tool. Here’s a fun way to add to that toolbox: FreeRice.Com — an online vocabulary test. (From Daphne Gray-Grant in her weekly newsletter):

Basically an online vocabulary test, much like the SAT, it presents you with a series of multiple choice definitions. Your answer to each question is scored immediately and you move on to the next one. (You can set options so that when you leave your computer the site “remembers” your score for the next time.)

The site automatically adjusts to your vocabulary level. When you get a word wrong, the next word provided is from an easier level. When you get three consecutive words right, you move to a higher degree of difficulty. (Experts say that this constant fine-tuning of levels is the best way to ensure you are learning and not just playing a game.) FreeRice has 50 levels in total, but staff say it’s rare for people to get past level 48. Go ahead; knock yourself out.

But you’re probably wondering about the site’s odd name. And therein lies the best news of all. Each time you get a word right, the site’s sponsors donate enough money to pay for 20 grains of rice for the United Nations’ World Food Program. That may sound like a pitifully small amount, but the site has already raised more than five billion grains of rice in less than two months.

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The iPhone Is Saving Lives

Friday, June 29th, 2007

My iPhone is paying off already.

I had to cut open a man’s chest earlier today to perform emergency, on-the-street cardiac massage. Thank goodness for the iPhone’s laser scalpel feature. It made a quick, clean incision in the chest wall, allowing me to squeeze the man’s heart and restart his circulation. Minutes later, I was showing him digital pictures of my new boat.

The iPhone has proven handy in the kitchen as well. It dices and slices fresh produce with ease, presses garlic cloves, and makes more ice than a polar bear with a small bladder and a thing for ginger ale. Because my iPhone gives me Internet access and a nice selection of razor-sharp cleavers, I was able to watch the podcast of Sports Center while preparing a meal of fresh zebra steaks.

And the new iPhone offers so much more. It’s a taser, telescope, corkscrew and nail file. Its built-in NASCAR simulator is the best I’ve seen. It comes with a 64-color digital crayon and a sharpener in the back. It can even analyze your golf swing and tuck the kids in at night.

I guess it’s a phone too.

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