Happy Tuesday, folks! Today we want to share the awesomeness of Google Voice with you! How many times have you given clients your personal phone number & they’ve taken advantage of it by calling you after work hours? It’s so tempting to answer their call, right?… Be tempted no more! Google Voice will give you one phone number that you can use as your business line, & it can reach multiple lines. In our case, we have one business line that will ring both of our phones when a client calls.

Another awesome feature of Google Voice is that you can set up a voicemail & “business hours” for your new business line. This way, if a client calls you at 7:30 (when you’re eating dinner ) it will go straight to your voicemail. We’ll admit that it’s very difficult to not work after your set business hours because there’s no where to clock out, & most of us work from our home where the work is so easily accessible. This is where Google Voice comes in handy! If you set up your phone to only ring within your business hours, then you’ll be less tempted to think about work after hours, & over all, less stressed

When a client calls you & leaves a voicemail, a transcript will also be emailed to you; &, in our case, this can be pretty funny to read! Since we’re in the south, many people who contact us have southern accents & Google Voice will try to decipher what our southern people say. When reading these transcripts, you’ll get a pretty good idea what people say, but some words & names can be spelled quite funny; but that’s why you have a voicemail, right?

The best feature of Google Voice is that it’s FREE! There’s no monthly or yearly fee, & you won’t be charged extra by your carrier (no matter who you use!) We hope we’ve made this clear for you! Good luck! Let us know what you think of Google Voice!

A few months ago we had the privilege to film Joy + Dan’s wedding in Windsor, Ontario; & that is where we tasted some of the best chili of our lives!! Luckily they were kind enough to share this recipe with us & now we want to share it with you!!

Ingredients:
1 1/2 lb of ground beef (We like lean beef )
2-3 stalks of celery
1 large onion
3 cans of Tomato soup
2 cans of Spicy Chili beans
2 cans of Maple Syrup beans
1 can diced Spicy tomatoes
Add brown sugar to taste
Chili Powder

Directions:
Brown the ground beef with onions, celery and add chili powder seasoning to taste… When this is cooked, drain off the fat (there won’t be much fat if you use good lean beef.) Then add all of the ingredients, stir and cook on med-high at first 10 min and then reduce to med and be sure to keep stirring or it will stick to bottom of pan and get burnt. Reduce again to med-low. Cook for about 20 more minutes & now you’ll have lunch for a few days!
Let us know how yours turns out!

A few months ago we posted a short clip of one of our awesome grooms, Derek, warming up before the wedding by singing a little bit of MJ. What we want to share with you today is what he was warming up for… he sang his bride, Alysha, & her mother down the aisle!

Not only was he about to watch his bride walk down the aisle, he had to perform in front of a crowd of friends & family! Talk about crazy nerves… but he pulled it off so well! This was one of our favorite wedding moments from 2011 & we want to share this beautiful moment with you all!

Coming into this new year, we have a new name & a new Facebook Fanpage! We will no longer be known as 2Duce2 Films or 2Duce2 Videography. We’ve decided to drop the “2Duce2″ & now we are just

“Eugene + Heather” !

Props to David Mendoza III for the awesome new logo!
Pretty soon our fan page “2Duce2 Videography” will be gone, so be sure to like our new fan page “Eugene + Heather“

It’s funny how many times a business’ name, logo, & branding can change. Look at Coca-cola! How many times have they changed their can, logo, & slogans? Yet people have always known them as “Coke”. “2Duce2″ was always so confusing & so hard for people to remember. We’ve been called “Duce2Duce2″, “The Duces”, “The Browns”, & many more names; but we just wanted to be known as one name. Like Coco-cola, we’re adjusting to our crowd & our intention is to give you all the best experience from simply “Eugene + Heather”. So keep an eye out, because pretty soon you’ll be seeing our “+” all over the place!

On this new fan page you’ll be able to view our newest videos, find links to our newest blogs, & see what new things we have going on! We’re excited to be known as just “Eugene + Heather” & we’re super excited for what this new year has in store for us!