Contact Information: Star2Star Communications Press Contact: Marla Whittemore Email Contact 941.234.0001, ext. 108 Rhythm and Grooves Press Contact: Brian Maguire Email Contact 941.746.6600
Small and Midsized Businesses Using the Star2Star IP Solution Now Have Access to Rhythm and Grooves On-Hold Messaging
| Source: Star2Star Communications
SARASOTA, FL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- March 13, 2007 -- Star2Star Communications, maker of the world's
most reliable business grade Internet phone solution, announced today the
availability of Vibecast™, a powerful and effective audio advertising
medium for custom on-hold messages, developed by Rhythm and Grooves™,
Inc. Vibecast is an audio messaging and music service that delivers
custom-branded, professionally recorded marketing campaigns designed to
inform and enhance a caller's on-hold experience. Vibecast now comes as an
integrated option with the StarSystem, an award-winning business grade
internet phone solution for small and midsized businesses.
"On-hold messaging is proven to be an effective and extremely economical
advertising tool. We're thrilled to be able to provide this valuable
service to end user customers, showing once again that Star2Star is serious
about being an effective business solution partner to its users. We did
extensive research regarding on-hold options and believe that Rhythm and
Grooves is the best in the industry for innovative audio marketing," states
Joe Rhem, President and CTO of Star2Star.
Brian Maguire, president of Rhythm and Grooves, adds, "We've worked closely
with Star2Star to tightly integrate our Vibecast Services directly into the
StarSystem architecture, eliminating additional external hardware
requirements and significantly reducing startup costs. Customers can
manage their Vibecast Service through an easy-to-use, web-based management
and delivery system. Star2Star's innovative approach gives the small and
midsized business customer a sophisticated communications solution that is
budget friendly. We look forward to providing theses customers with an
even more complete business solution and helping them leverage their
technology investment to gain maximum business benefits."
Star2Star Communications is the only provider of a completely integrated
End-to-End Business Grade Internet Phone Solution. As both the PBX
manufacturer and internet phone service provider (the dial tone), Star2Star
uniquely offers a complete phone solution that includes hardware, phone
service, 24x7x365 monitoring of the phone system, network and call quality
with 7-way backup that involves triple redundant internet connections,
redundant phone carriers, redundant data center equipment, analog line
switchover, disaster recovery (automatic call-forwarding if your office
power is lost), automatic internet modem reset and optional dual-homed ISP
connectivity. This exclusive integrated approach makes Star2Star the only
internet phone solution vendor that can guarantee 99.9% reliability.
The response to the StarSystem, an award-winning business IP solution, has
been phenomenal. While end users continue to rave about StarSystem's
powerful features, reliability and quality, businesses who finance their
equipment purchase with Star2Star also consistently report being able to
start using the system, even from the first month, with little to no out of
pocket expense since the average business phone bill is cut in half.
Star2Star also offers a 30-day money back guarantee where end users can use
the StarSystem for outgoing calls side-by-side their current system for
incoming calls, confirming the StarSystem works for their specific office
needs.
"Our close working relationship with our dealers told us there was great
interest in adding an on-hold messaging service. The Star2Star Dealers do
a great job with communicating end user feedback. Now businesses using the
StarSystem can have comprehensive professional copywriting and audio
recording services available at their fingertips. Through this partnership,
our end customers can easily and quickly customize their phone systems so
callers will have a targeted and personalized audio experience," concludes
Rhem.
About Star2Star Communications
Star2Star Communications, the world's most reliable business grade internet
phone solution, exclusively offers a fully integrated End-to-End
architecture. As both the manufacturer of the system hardware and the
provider of the telephone service, Star2Star monitors and manages all
aspects of the system, network and call quality. The StarSystem is sold
through a nationwide dealer network and is the only solution at both ends
of the call path. The fully integrated approach from Star2Star is proven to
provide powerful features, superior quality, guaranteed reliability and
dramatic savings on phone costs for small to midsized organizations. For
more information, please visit www.star2star.com.
About Rhythm and Grooves
Rhythm and Grooves™ is a full service audio marketing firm that provides
branded audio messaging, music and identity services to businesses of all
sizes. Utilizing its Vibecast™ audio appliances, creative processes and
media delivery systems, Rhythm and Grooves offers customers an innovative
service that both audibly captures the personality of their business and
their customers' attention. Vibecast currently addresses telephone message
on-hold, convenience store gas pump and in-store promotional applications.
For more information, visit www.rhythmandgrooves.com.