Being on hold has become a run-of-the-mill occurrence – but that doesn’t mean it has to be a bad experience. In fact, according to a study by Stan Rapp and Tom Collins of Maximarketing, 88% of callers preferred on hold messages to other hold options, and 16-20% made a purchase based on an on hold offer.
I agree with you. The music phone service provider use is never the best! Like you, when I switch to my calendar on iPhone and ask my caller to wait while I do that, it would be great to have one of my iPod tracks play to him until I pressed the green bar again to return to the call. Surely one could set that up independently of the phone service provider: just a matter of substituting my music choice for my voice until I clicked back off hold?? May 15, 2009 12:10 AM User profile for user: Tamara Tamara User level: Level 6 (13,735 points) May 15, 2009 4:39 AM in response to DavidJA In response to DavidJA
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A well written script is the cornerstone of any great on hold message. It must capture the caller’s attention, so they remain engaged while navigating menu options or waiting on hold. The script that callers hear can set the tone for the rest of the conversation. It should also be in line with your goals, which can be broken down to 3 main objectives. It can be to inform the caller, promote the brand or product, or just entertain the caller. Most of all, it has to be engaging.
If you have a nice voice and more or less decent recording equipment, you can record your own on hold messages.
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You have reached {COMPANY NAME}. Please be assured that your call will receive the time and attention it deserves when we return to the line.
Even if you’re business is not getting a high volume of inbound calls, if you transfer ANY calls or ever put customers on hold, even for just 10-15 seconds. Always use that time to give the customer another reason to think positively about your business.
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For a more modern example of a bad choice of hold music, let’s take an example I have to endure on a regular basis, Month of Sundays by Passenger. At CD quality it’s got lots of interesting stuff going on, which you’d imagine might be ideal to distract someone from the fact they’re being kept on hold for ages. However, playing it over the phone it’s simply too busy. As soon as the brass and backing vocals kick in it just sounds yuck.
If you are running a VoIP (Voice over IP) phone system, we can also provide VoIP messages on hold, whereby we only supply the digital content excluding the equipment. If your organisation is only using a single telephone line and not a PBX / PABX multi line phone system, you can still enable your telephone for on hold by connecting to one of
Professional Audio Messages to Complete your Phone System. We specialise in audio marketing for telephone systems, both VOIP and traditional. Whether you are looking for music on hold or on hold messages, perhaps call menu options and out of hours too; we can take care of every part of the process for you.
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