Often, it’s a good idea to precede the message with a bright alert sound effect to grab snoozing customer attention:
Engage, attract and appeal to your callers while promoting your business and reinforcing your brand.
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It doesn’t matter if you’re writing marketing copy or if you’re writing a comedy script; everything must stay on brand. Writing is about capturing your inner voice and sharing it with an audience. The same applies when you’re writing for a company, and its brand is its voice.
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Your file will be delivered to you with 15 seconds of background music (or blank airtime if you do not choose background music) after the voice message. This will give you 15 seconds of music (or blank airtime) between each message when run in a loop.
No list of top 10 “on hold” songs would be complete without an appearance by one of Motown’s finest groups. You may find that moment when you are taken off hold to be a “miracle” of sorts, depending on how long you are kept waiting.
A telephone message on hold program compares to a mini radio station for your phone lines. Strategic messages promoting your products and services to your callers while they wait on hold. Telephone messages on hold is a way of educating your callers about your brand.
"You know, we get people who ask us to put them back on hold." - Eric Smith / Binkelman Corporation (Hear a sample)
Use your customer’s captive time on-hold wisely to share background, insight and information about your business. Answer typical questions they might ask, prepare them to be served expeditiously or build loyalty through goodwill promotions or offers.
Our integrated custom scriptwriter makes creating and getting professionally voiced messages easy and affordable. Choose from a wide variety of customizable script templates, or write your own script from scratch. When you're finished, just submit your script and it will be read by a professional voice actor of your choice.
Make sure to check your phone system for any file requirements. The most common file format accepted is WAV. If you need to convert an audio file, you can use services like G711 or Audacity. Read More: 5 Ways to Get Customers to Love Your IVR Menu. How to choose the best hold music for your business. For telephone hold music, simple is best.
Our cell phones are millions of times more powerful than all of NASA’s combined computing power in 1969. They can capture beautiful photos, tune guitars, provide navigation, and process payments. It’s simply remarkable…and something we can easily take for granted.
With a strong commitment to customer service and quality on hold messages, AyerPlay has continued to be an industry leader, with over 7,000 clients nationwide. Let AyerPlay help you target your clients with effective on hold message programs for your business.
We have recorded audio productions in various languages such as French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Russian, Chinese, Polish and many more!
This may sound odd, but the audio track needs a bit of grit or background music, or it should clearly sound like an automated recording, so the caller knows that it’s a recording.
There aren’t many things people hate more than being put on hold when they call your company. They expect to talk to a person and to be treated like one, and instead, they’re ignored and have to spend time waiting for someone to answer. It’s annoying, and it can cost you business. Yet, there are simple ways to keep people on the line if they’re on hold, and the best one is to write an on hold message script.
A typical Message on Hold program is 4 minutes long. Because a voice over talent typically reads between 100 and 112 words per minute, the script for a four-minute program can be up to 400 words, allowing for four to six paragraphs or messages, interspersed by brief intervals of music. Longer audio storage and program lengths are available if necessary.