Having an on hold message or on hold recordings for your business makes all the difference. Recent research shows that promoting your business’ services, or educating your customers through an on hold message not only improves the customer experience – but increases the likelihood of a prospect becoming a customer. We’ve been helping businesses for years to improve their telephonic marketing through well crafted on hold messages.
The idea of creating a custom on-hold message may sound daunting, but advancements in technology have made it a lot easier in the last few years. In its simplest form, all you need is an audio file. Before you start, check with your IT support team or phone system vendor to see if there are any special requirements you need to be aware of.
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Send that message, or get information needed, and press thumb button at bottom center screen/phone and all apps on “Home Screen” will return, If need to return to actual call in progress/or on hold, press the center button twice quickly.
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Where this creates an extra snag with music on hold is that the loudest part of a song doesn’t typically come in until the final chorus or reprise. This means that if you just listen to the first 10 seconds to check that your new hold music is working, then chances are you’ll be blissfully unaware that three minutes into holding (just as customers are beginning to feel irritated anyway), you start playing a sound like fingernails on a blackboard to them.
In order to get started with custom on hold messages, you will need to determine your phones MOH (Messages On Hold) capability. If you’re using a traditional pbx business phone system, you’ll need an on hold media unit to play the audio. If you’re using an ipbx or hosted voip set-up then all you need to do is upload the audio file as no media device is required. And, if your a small/home office business using a traditional off-the-shelf 2-4 line telephone then you’ll need the media device and an on hold module adaptor in order to make your standard analog phones on hold message compatible.
Once professionally recorded your message is loaded as a mp3 file which can be downloaded when ready. It is easily loaded via your PC to a USB key and plugged into your On Hold Player.
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On Hold Switch. Our unique On Hold Switch (OHS) devices are specifically designed to allow users to play professional music or messages on hold through an ordinary ‘residential type’ telephone line. This device works with single line and cordless phones. With the OHS, you can connect any type of audio device as your audio source, be it an
Every call should go on-hold while being transferred. Studio 52 is a pioneer in production of Telephone Hold Messages that helps our clients to inform, educate, advertise and entertain their callers with latest information, production knowledge, exciting offers or to put simple seasons greetings on the phone and transform this dead time into great opportunity! Studio 52 has produced Telephone Hold Messages for more than 2000 clients around the region and numbers are still growing!
The included software is easy to use, although, sadly, won't work with an Apple computer (which is why I downgraded my review by one star). I solved that problem by bringing an old Windows-based computer out of retirement.
How to Format Your On Hold Script. For an average IVR phone system where customers are on hold for 1-3 minutes, it’s wise to have at least two courtesy messages and two marketing messages, with each message timing out to precisely 30 seconds (:30). Hold music should play in between the messages for 30 seconds (:30).
“Thank you for continuing to hold, your patience is appreciated. Please continue to hold and we will be with you as soon as possible. Alternatively, if you would rather leave a message and get us to call you back please press 0 at any time.”
The Grace Digital Message and Music on Hold Media MP3 player is an on-hold music and media player designed for use with almost any business telephone setup including PBX, IBX, or Key Phone systems. Keep your customers, clients, or coworkers occupied and …
Messaging on hold is an excellent tool for keeping callers and clients updated with company news and goings-on. Recordings can be used to update customers on changes to opening hours and scheduling, service delivery information, daily events and much more.