Another opportunity to improve customer service is to provide customers with self-service information. If you have help documentation or resources online, be sure to mention them on hold, so that your callers can access that helpful content on their own, leaving your staff free to help with more unique concerns.
Voicemail Greetings – outgoing message recordings for after-hours voicemail box and when a call can’t be taken.
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When your customers are on hold, they’re essentially a captive audience. They’re already waiting to speak with you, so why not take advantage of that downtime and create a sales pitch that sells more of your goods and services while they wait?
Working with Holdcom to keep your program up to date is easy. Just tell your Client Relations Representative and Script Consultant the information and they’ll revise your script. They can replicate your advertising from newspaper or television ads, follow your social media updates, and check your website.
Depending on how large your business is, you may want more than one on hold messaging option. If you have several departments to take care of, you should consider the customizable extensions feature available through most systems. This feature allows you to craft specific messages for various phone extensions throughout your organization. If you need to provide different information to different callers, this is the best way to do it.
If you don’t have the capability in-house, or if you’d prefer to let someone else handle it, this task is easy to outsource.
All our customer service advisers are busy. Due to currrent high volume of calls, it may be some time before an adviser is able to take your call. either continue to hold or press 1 and leave your details and we will call you back later today.
No matter how you choose to create the on-hold recording, once the audio file sounds exactly like you want it, simply ask your IT team to update your phone system with the new recording. You’ll be giving your callers a better experience in no time.
Technology gives us the ability to market our businesses in many ways. One way that has been around for decades is the “on-hold” recording for your phone system. It’s one of the most underappreciated methods for showcasing your company and making sure callers have a good experience.
How much did you spend on your visual marketing last year: website, brochures, newspaper/magazine advertisements, posters, leaflets? Hundreds? Thousands? We all know how important it is to make our businesses look good but what about making it sound good? When did you last consider what your on hold messaging says about your business?
Not quite the desired effect, I think you’ll agree. It might be funny if you and I didn’t have to endure it time and time again.
Choosing great on-hold music keeps customers on the phone longer, and that means better service. It’s science! The ups and downs of technology. Call center technology experts Greenlight break it down pretty bluntly. Telephone on-hold music is difficult to get right because of a combination of basically two things. First, the sound quality of
If you would like a pause in your message where just background music (or blank airtime) plays, place (...) in your script where you want the pause.
As an example of what that actually means, let’s listen to the popular hold music staple that is Pachelbel’s Canon in D. At CD quality it sounds soothing. As hold music it starts to grate very, very quickly.
We collaborate with your business to create an on hold message that’s specifically designed for your needs.
Thank you for calling {COMPANY NAME} – your number-one source for {describe type of service}.
We provide bespoke on hold messages, more and more business is conducted over the phone all the time so it’s important you’re presented in the most professional and courteous manner possible. You should never consider putting a caller on hold as a bad move. This is your opportunity to continue informing your caller of important and interesting information about your business. 94% of marketing budgets are spent on attaining calls 88% of callers prefer on hold messages to any other option 70% of callers hang up after 30 seconds of silence 34% of callers who hang up due to silence will not call back 25% of callers stay longer due to on hold messaging 20% of businesses sales increased with on hold messages