So how do you choose the right hold music? Start with what’s appropriate for your business. A funeral home wouldn’t blast the Bee Gees. A sports arena isn’t going to stream some easy listening to the fans. Know your audience, understand their mind space, and pick your music accordingly.
Why wouldn’t you give the same attention to the tool that keeps your callers on the line? "As a species, if you like, we feel like music helps us. That's the only way you can explain it persisting for so long." –Professor Adrian North,Head of the School of Psychology and Speech Pathology at Curtin University, Huffpost.com How to Choose On Hold Music for Your Business
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Music on hold is available so that when callers are on hold, they have a pleasant atmosphere and have some strategic patience whilst we try to use the call answering service via VoIP Business. VoIP Business has a sound library that allows each individual line and extension in our office phone system to be customised.
We were amazed at how easy the process was! Took our phone system from ordinary to professional straight away.
The most common codecs are G729 (compressed) and G711 (non-compressed). They are designed to compress human speech, and often cause a loss of audio fidelity — which is worse in some languages than others. On hold music that has been specifically designed for that purpose, to be used with VoIP systems and codecs, can sound great. But it is not easy to come by.
However, if there is no other option but to place your customers on hold (perhaps during a busy season), you need to make the experience as pleasant as possible.
Slow your roll—there’s a lot more to hold music than just genre. A phone line isn’t a state of the art speaker system; its primary function is to make sure the call is connected. Volume changes, frequency, and distortion are all elements to consider when choosing hold music.
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.
For those of you who are familiar with the veritable purgatory that is being “on hold,” I don’t have to tell you that you have just been thrust into a parallel universe where time slows down, and both your patience and sanity cannot survive.
Custom hold messaging can be used to deliver high-quality, professional customer service as well as showcasing a more polished image for your business. Smaller businesses can even use custom messaging in combination with auto-attendant features to project a larger, more professional image than may otherwise be possible.
Our affordable pricing allows you to request several programs a month or year to compliment your outside promotions and marketing efforts or to promote seasonal items or services.
If multiple files are uploaded, they are played in the order that they are listed on the Music On Hold page. If there is only one file, it is played repeatedly.
I need more options for hold music. Having fast classical guitar in minor key is not what our anxiety patients want to hear. Slower, happy jazz would be better. Anna commented · April 1, 2019 5:21 PM · Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate · Edit… · Delete…
On-Hold Messages allows you to create a fully customized and professional production that decreases perceived hold time, educates, and even entertains your patients, all while they are on hold! Best of all, the system is 100% maintenance-free, allowing you and your Team to focus on your top priority, Patient Care! Create a positive patient experienceMake a good first impressionInform, educate & motivate callersPresent new treatment options Cross sell products and services Differentiate your practiceBuild patient loyaltyReinforce other marketing effortsOffer tips for proper oral careReduce caller “hang ups”
The problem, in my mind, is that every single one of these articles misses the point completely. Even if you implemented a call centre system that detected and automatically played someone’s all-time favourite music while they waited, a facility which is possibly not that far off, most music when played down the phone just sounds terrible. Butchering a song that someone actually likes is unlikely to improve the waiting experience.
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