Your audio image is important. Phone contacts are often the first impression people have of your business. If they must hold on the phone, this is your chance to impress them with relevant greetings and telephone hold messages. Callers can be existing clients, future clients, potential customers, and they are all important. A professional voicemail recording boosts your credibility, and encourages prospects and potential connections to leave a voicemail when you can't answer the phon.
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Brian & the team have been looking after our telephone systems for a few years now. Always an excellent service. Very knowledgable and at hand, should any problems arise.
Sample 3 — "Thanks for holding. Did you know that JK Mortgage has special programs designed to help people who don't qualify for a standard loan? We can customize a loan specifically to meet your needs. Ask one of our certified agents for information. Someone will be with you shortly."
Our elevator is a work in progress, so I haven't actually tried it for the intended purpose, but I'm convinced that it will work fine.
The following list is my own personal “Top 10” list of songs which will not shorten your hold time, but may add a little levity to it:
Satellite Download – A great solution if you already have our music service or if you are looking to add both.
Unfortunately, it gets worse. Due to general sloppiness when it comes to setting the volume level for music on hold, a form of distortion known as “clipping” can appear, and regularly does if you’re willing to believe personal anecdotal evidence. If you want to know about the science behind clipping, then Wikipedia will tell you everything you need to know, but for those of us who have things to get on with, we can get by just knowing that when something is played too loud down a phone line, the sound starts to distort and sound really horrible.
Yes. Depending upon your phone system and its capabilities, the majority of our clients have the ability to play specific messages at specific locations.
Statistics show that approximately 34% of callers who hang up will never call you back. In addition, callers wait an estimated 70% longer on the line when they are listening to interesting information about the company they are calling. These statistics suggest that providing a customized message that is tailored to your company can be more effective than playing music or leaving the customer in silence while they’re on hold.
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There are companies that offer you a 'free' on hold demo, 'free' script writing, 'free' updates etc, the cost of which is recouped by getting you into a lengthy contract.
3.) Currently, all employees are still busy. We are eager to forward you as soon as possible. Have you visited our website www.johndoe.de ? You can find an overview of our services and products there. Your call is very important to us and we dedicate to take time for our customers. Unfortunately, all lines are still busy and we ask for your patience.
On-hold messaging is also great time to encourage consumers to spend. For example, you can offer customers who spend more than $99 free shipping, customers who order 3 items a 4th item free, etc. Think “upsell” with your ads on hold – you’ve got the customer on the line patiently waiting to (hopefully) spend money.
To write a comedy script well, you need to be open with yourself and your audience. Write about your flaws as a company, and present them in a humorous light. The easiest way to start is to write about forcing people to stay on hold and joke about it.
Avoid using ‘please’ more than once, it gets wordy and redundant. The goal is to keep the content as concise as possible, moving callers quickly and seamlessly through the options.