The Belles Celebrity Answering Service

5 BELLES

2010-03-19T13:09:00.000-07:00

It is a proven fact: Your customers and prospects don't want to navigate prompts, listen to machines, or leave voice messages. When they get that, they simply hang up and go somewhere else.

What do you do? How do you treat your clients well and let them know you are there for them when they need you.

The answer is 5-Belles.

Belles helps you stay connected with your customers and prospects live and in FIVE EASY STEPS:

1. Call 877.526.5537 and claim your two-week free trial (100 message calls).
2. Belles will set up your new number and learn about your company, your products, and your services.
3. Select your greeting ("My Company. May I help you?")
4. Our secretaries will begin answering your phone, assisting you with customer service, sales support, and much more--live, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can give out your new number or transfer your calls to your new number.
5. Belles will deliver your messages as per your instructions via sms, email, fax, or by phone.

Learn more at: www.bellescelebrity.com

Question of The Day

2010-03-16T14:05:00.000-07:00

Q: How can Belles Answering Service be an asset to my business?

A: The Belles Answering Service can be a vital part of your business.

After we become familiar with the specific details of your account (your business) we are ready to address the needs of your customers, clients, and prospects.

Belles is there for you 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year; so you don't have to worry about missing calls and potential business. Our services are highly personalized and this goes a long way when you are trying to establish solid business relationships. This is priceless. Customers don't want to talk to a machine. Prospects will go somewhere else if they are greeted with a prompt or a voice mail.

If you work on your own, you can rely on Belles to help you grow your business. In the meantime, you can be at a meeting while our secretaries can be jotting down a referral or an important business message.

Learn more: www.bellescelebrity.com

Belles Uses Google Voice

2009-10-30T16:56:00.001-07:00

The Belles Answering Service is now using the cool Google Voice technology to allow our customers to contact us free of charge. Hey, fans! Visit our contact page and call in to say hello or become a Belles Celebrity client.

The Belles Celebrity Answering Service, LLC. Deploys Its New Website and Re-designed Logo

2009-10-23T10:39:00.001-07:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Belles Celebrity Answering Service, LLC. Deploys Its New Website and Re-designed Logo

New York, New York - October 23, 2009 -- The Belles Answering Service is happy to announce deployment of its first ever website, www.bellescelebrity.com, and its newly redesigned logo to reflect our modern times.

Since 1956, The Belles has provided answering services to big names in show business, millionaires, city professionals, political figures, entrepreneurs, small and large business owners -- even opera divas, singers, and rock bands. During those bustling days, these celeb clients would rely on the efficiency of their personally designated secretaries at Belles to take their messages accurately, 24/7.

With our new motto, "Your Calls Are Too Important to Let Them Go Unanswered," Belles' website dedicates a page to tell of its rich history, with quotes from some of the thank you notes received by a few former clients, newspapers and magazine articles, and a few pictures. Belles also introduces, as part of its traditional Belles Celebrity Answering Service, The Belles Legacy Wake Up Call Service and The Belles Legacy R.S.V.P Service. In addition, Belles introduces The Belles Contact Center Service to provide a wide array of specialized services.

Today, Belles are ringing louder.

Contact:

Roger Snyder

The Belles Celebrity Answering Service, LLC.

Belles.: (212) 758 - 1264 | fax.: (888) 223 - 5503

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The woman who wakes up Robert Redford

2009-10-22T18:07:00.001-07:00

“The walls of Printz’ office are rim-tight with autographed photos from celebrities: Candice and Louis Malle, for example, sitting in a carriage in a French field after their marriage. The photo is inscribed: ‘To all our Belles with love from Candice and Louis.’”

(Larkin, Kathy. “The woman who wakes up Robert Redford.” Manhattan Daily News. Wednesday, August 11, 1982)

BELLES CONTACT CENTER SERVICES

2009-10-22T18:04:00.001-07:00

THE BELLES CONTACT CENTER™ uses a 3-step approach to great customer service by:

Providing customers with the best possible telephone experience
Providing customer satisfaction.
Providing feedback and follow up

SERVICES
Professional Answering
BCC provides 24/7 communications support to organizations that require call management around the clock by managing their calls, both incoming and outgoing as needed. We process and deliver communications to the intended recipient with accuracy, efficiency and quality.

Our comprehensive service options range from fax notifications to overflow answering. We offer client-specific customization of messaging procedures adapting the communications delivery to your workflow. The communication methods we use are:

Message delivery with follow-up fax or email
Voice mail
Dispatches customized to your needs
Alpha-numeric paging (for digital pagers, Palm devices, and cell phones)
Text messaging for cell phones and PDA's

http://bellescelebrity.com/contactcenter.html

BELLES TELEGRAM SERVICE

2009-10-22T18:03:00.001-07:00

TELEGRAM SERVICE

Belles has partnered with TelegramStop to offer you a unique, personalized way to send someone a vintage message. Send a traditional classic telegram the easy way to just say hello, happy birthday, or any other message. Simply call us at +1-877-523-5537. Our Agents will take your message, the name and the address of the person receiving your telegram, and presto! Your message will be received in 4 to 8 Days (stop)

THE BELLES LEGACY WAKE UP CALL SERVICE™

2009-10-22T18:02:00.000-07:00

THE BELLES LEGACY WAKE UP CALL SERVICE™

Our wake-up call service was the inspiration from the 1982 Manhattan article by Kathy Larkin, “The Woman Who Wakes Up Robert Redford.”

A premiere and personalized telephone wake-up and reminder call service combine to offer the flexibility of scheduling and customizing wake up and/or reminder calls. Belles Legacy will ensure that your bells are ringing so that you’re up and running and never miss an appointment, meeting, date or rendez vous. Our secretaries will call you anywhere in the world, anytime, on time.

http://bellescelebrity.com/celebrity.html

THE BELLES LEGACY R.S.V.P SERVICE™

2009-10-22T17:59:00.001-07:00

THE BELLES LEGACY R.S.V.P SERVICE™

Our R.S.V.P. service makes managing your event easy and it is designed with you and your event registration needs in mind.

This registration service, outbound or inbound, adds sophistication and it is designed for any type of occasion whether it is weddings, birthdays, anniversary parties, Bar & Bat Mitzvah RSVP, baby showers, graduations, corporate events, or personal needs. Your guests will call into your very own personalized R.S.V.P line. A live operator will greet your guests and register them for your event. We will also answer any questions related to your event.

THE BELLES CELEBRITY ANSWERING SERVICE™

2009-10-22T17:58:00.000-07:00

THE BELLES CELEBRITY ANSWERING SERVICE™ is our traditional legacy service offering the following services:

24 Hours & 7 Days A Week Live Service
Customized Accounts
Dedicated 800 or local phone numbers
Call patching – We can patch the caller straight to you
Appointment Setting
Mail Forwarding & Receiving
Conferencing SolutionsWake-up calls, secretarial service,
Appointment setting.
Fax, Email, SMS
Answering service provided throughout the continental United States

http://bellescelebrity.com/celebrity.html

Old Belles’ advertisement.

2009-10-22T17:57:00.000-07:00

Today Belles

2009-10-22T17:56:00.001-07:00

Today, The Belles Celebrity Answering Service™ continues to hold the line on personalized service using sophisticated telephony to address the changing needs of our clients.

Belles has introduced The Belles Legacy Wake-Up Call Service™ to offer wake-up and event reminder calls and The Belles Legacy R.S.V.P Service™ to help you manage your special events (weddings, anniversaries, Bar & Bat Mitzvahs, birthdays, registrations).

Belles’ goal is to offer developing technologies to a wider range of clients who require more responsive services. The Belles Contact Center™ compliments those needs with specialized inbound, outbound, and innovative customer and sales support.

Whatever the service, Belles will continue to extend the red carpet in human touch needed of every personal and business relationship.

More About Belles Early Days

2009-10-22T17:55:00.001-07:00

Around 1960, Belles’ clients were on account using the traditional hard-wire. Originally, Belles used the Intercept 557 Switchboard manufactured by Western Electric. Just in time, Belles upgraded to six City Wide Switchboards, manufactured in Long Island. Since then, these boards have been operated by about two dozen telephone girls, better known as “secretaries” or “Belles.” In those days, Belles did not advertise and new clients were accepted only by referral.

Traditionally, new clients sign up with Belles and they later send their autographed portrait, “With Love to Our Belles.”

Not only did Belles take messages for the uber-rich, but they also offered a specialized wake-up call and event reminder service. In fact, The Belles Wake-Up Call Service ™ was inspired by the August 11, 1982 Manhattan article, “The Woman who wakes up Robert Redford.”

BELLES EARLY DAYS

2009-10-22T17:54:00.001-07:00

Since 1956, The Belles has taken messages for big names in show business, millionaires, city professionals, political figures, and even opera divas and rock bands. During those bustling days, these celeb clients would rely on the efficiency of their personally designated secretaries at Belles to take their messages accurately. Once or twice a day, they would call the unlisted number 212 Plaza 8 -1264, PL 8, to check their messages.

http://www.thinkgreenecreative.com/TheBelles/about.html

About Belles

2009-10-22T17:53:00.000-07:00

The Belles may well be the most famous answering service in the United States, even though until four years ago its own number was unlisted. It was founded in 1956 by a smashing brunette named Mary Printz, whose nicknames range from ‘Ma Belle’ to ‘The Witch of the East.’ Mary had been in business for just a short time when two of her clients— songwriters Adolph Green and Jule Styne—told her they were going to write a musical about an answering service and base its main character on her. The result was Bells Are Ringing and its opening song.…

(Eisenberg, Lawrence B. “Confessions of an Answering Service.” Cosmopolitan, February 1977)

The Belles Celebrity Answering Service™

2009-10-22T17:50:00.000-07:00

The Belles Celebrity Answering Service™

Since 1956, our exclusive legacy, The Belles Celebrity Telephone Answering Service™, has offered a prestigious line of personalized telephone answering services to an elite A-list of legendary Hollywood stars and Broadway legends to ensure that their calls are answered 24/7/365, including holidays.

The Belles Legacy R.S.V.P™ adds a touch of class to any special event or personal occasion while The Belles Legacy Wake Up Call™ offers wake-up and reminder services.

The Belles Celebrity adds a personalized touch to a world of electronic voices and push-buttons.