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Telehold Message On Hold and Audio Marketing Services – Company Profile

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TeleHold is an Oregon-based full-service audio marketing company providing services nationwide. Their core services include:

  • Message On Hold
  • ACD/IVR Voice Prompts
  • In Store Messaging
  • Audio Encoding
  • Audio Distribution
  • Foreign Translation
  • Professional Voiceover, Music and Effects
  • Radio Spot Production
  • Web Audio
  • Custom Demo Production

The company launched in the 1980s primarily providing message on hold services for large and small companies. By playing messages on hold, which Telehold describes as “your own radio station on hold,” companies were able to start selling to customers the moment they were placed on hold. Today few savvy companies waste precious on-hold minutes by broadcasting radio ads describing other businesses’ products and services.

Continuing a tradition of maximizing resources, Telehold expanded from the telephone to the web, as well as brick and mortar stores. Using professional voice over talents – like yours truly – Telehold produces audio messages not only in English, but also in Spanish, French and other languages. Its clients includes all types and sizes of businesses, from local hardware stores to major corporations like Johnson & Johnson and Disney Home Entertainment.

The people at Telehold are friendly and professional experts in digital audio production, encoding and distribution. Visit Telehold today to learn more about the diverse possibilities available through audio marketing. Be sure to listen to their various messages as you click through the web site to hear effective web audio in action.

Profile: Resnick Interactive Group

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Meet Todd Resnick. Todd is CEO at Resnick Interactive Group, a voice over casting company he started in 2000. Resnick Interactive is a full-service voice over company specializing in voice over recording, voice over directing and voice over production for today’s animation, advertisements and games.Todd is a business owner, teacher, producer, engineer, casting director with fifteen years in the music production and video game development industries and has worked with some of today’s well known companies, networks and publishers including Mattel, Blizzard, Marvel, Simon and Schuster, and many other storied franchises.

Todd also provides a generous blog with useful content about the voiceover industry from many more perspectives than I can provide as a voice actor working primarily in corporate voiceover. So as part of my continued efforts to pass along good information on our industry, I hope you’ll visit his web site and see all the great things Todd and Resnick Interactive Group have to offer.

Happy Holidays!

The Simpsons Voice Actors Making Too Much Money?

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After 23 seasons, The Simpsons, may be silenced by Fox. The network says the voice actors are making too much money and apparently has asked the cast to take a 45% pay cut. Yikes!

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The cast has reportedly countered with an offer to take a 30% pay cut in exchange for a percentage of profit from merchandising and syndication. That sounds like a pretty good deal all the way around, but this doesn’t appear to be a negotiation on Fox’s part.

I hope that changes since, in addition to this talented cast, the show’s cancellation would put a considerable number of writers, directors, animators, sound designers and other crew members out of work.

In 1992 six voice actors from The Simpsons were the first-ever recipients of a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, a juried award with no nominees until 2009 when it was turned into a category award.