Oftentimes, having examples can help sprout ideas and fuel a good brainstorming session.
Our scriptwriters have years of experience in writing for audio, especially on hold and IVR systems. We’ll create an on hold message your callers will be happy to listen to – avoiding the clichés and stock phrases they hate to hear.
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Here’s what happens to our two example tracks when we use some amplification to introduce clipping into the mix:
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8/27 4:30 am - Time Warner is experiencing a National outage - visit https://twitter.com/TWC_Help On Hold, In Hell: 10 Catchy Tunes for your Waiting Pleasure by Marty Foster Feb 3, 2015 7:00:00 AM
It's the only song Alex Cornell has ever written. Cornell was one of the co-founders of UberConference, and in addition to being a designer, is a singer and guitar player who had always found songwriting frustrating. "Then I just came to it one day," he says. "I just wanted to write a pleasant melody designed to be heard over the phone." With encouragement from Walker, Cornell started messing around with the lyrics. He wrote and recorded it in one night, in 2012, as a voice note on his phone — and thus, this self-aware hold song was born, and lives on, seven years later.
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The best hold music has few instruments and preferably only one. Simple music handles the change in quality better than a full orchestra arrangement. The latter gets distorted, particularly if it’s too loud for the phone to handle and clipping happens. No one wants to hear a dirge-like cacophony masquerading as “Pachelbel’s Canon in D.”
Since your information will be on a recorded loop, it is good practice to include music in between loops to break up the information for the consumer.
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OUR SOLUTION: We bought a IBOOST 800 audio amplifier. With the volume turned all the way up on both devices, customers calling in on cell phones can now hear voice messages and music much clearer.
Our customized programs are 6 minutes long and include up to 11 messages. A variety of packages are available–whether you need one program that plays year round, or you want to update your messages each month.
9. Queue Callback Message. What the caller hears when they request a callback from the queue. Sample Scripts: “You have requested to have the next available agent call you back from the queue.
Enter your cell phone number. You will receive a verification code to authenticate your number.
The biggest advantages are that it’s free and you have the ultimate flexibility in what you can say. If you plan on using background music make sure you’re using music that is safe to use in commercial projects. Also check out the technical requirements of you business phone system and learn how to format on hold music for phone systems.
On-Hold Plus products are the industry standard for telephone music and message on-hold applications. On-Hold Plus offers a complete line of of digital music-on-hold and business music systems which allow any business, regardless of its size, to present a professional image.
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