About Us
Hold Time Studios is a family-owned and operated company based in Portland, Oregon. Like our owner, some of our employees and voice-talents are musicians – working during the day, and playing at night; but all of us are serious about making your phone system sound great as we have for many others.
Hold Time started as a research paper in graduate school; then armed with an M.B.A. and Masters in Music – Hold Time has found its way into hundreds of phone systems around the country. We're very proud of our company, and grateful for our clients.
We’re not a large company and, so far, we don’t want to be. What we have in Hold Time is a great life, affirming to us that "Good Things Come to Those Who Wait."
Patrick
Friendly, positive, and warm with really good phrasing. A favorite male voice with just about everybody, except monster truck rallies. Read about Patrick is doing outside the studio in our local paper here!
If you want to get Patrick talking, ask him about Music, Triathlons, or Business... he's always game for a good conversation!
Lisa
Feminine and business-professional, Lisa is a favorite with financial firms, and the medical industry... we tease her about being the "botox girl".
Lisa is all about being a mom, but comes by the studio every day to lay down tracks for customer's that only want her on their phone system.
Wendy
Cute and flirty, with a voice as clear as a bell. Wendy did our all-time favorite voiceover: Mr. Rooter "Action Figures". We still laugh about it... you can hear it in our sample section by clicking here.
Other voices
There are other options for voiceovers, but they live elsewhere and are contracted for one project at a time. Expect to pay $150 to $200 extra. Your project manager can send you samples.
Who Knew?
Interesting Fact #1: All of our voiceover artists are parents. Lisa has a degree in Developmental Psychology, and Wendy has worked as a children’s activities director!
Interesting Fact #10: Hold Time was an M.B.A. Business plan Patrick’s final project was graded a B.
Let’s Get Down to Business
Music on Hold White Sheets
- What does a script look like?
- How are productions put together?
- Recession Marketing - how to slash your budget.
Honest Answers From our Blog
- Music on hold that’s so bad, we won’t read it.
- What callers want... the answer might surprise you.
- Good scripting has good detail.
- Designing on-hold with cell phones in mind.
- Working with your internet strategy.
- The Number #1 complaint about the on-hold industry.
- Using sound FX while on-hold.
- "Please hang up" – avoiding on-hold hell.
- Your customers: The attention span of 2 year old.
- Trivia is not trivial.
- Working on-hold into your marketing strategy.
- Slash your marketing budget with music on hold.