Unfortunately, it gets worse. Due to general sloppiness when it comes to setting the volume level for music on hold, a form of distortion known as “clipping” can appear, and regularly does if you’re willing to believe personal anecdotal evidence. If you want to know about the science behind clipping, then Wikipedia will tell you everything you need to know, but for those of us who have things to get on with, we can get by just knowing that when something is played too loud down a phone line, the sound starts to distort and sound really horrible.
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!
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Considering the relatively low cost of getting on-hold marketing messages recorded and hosted, it’s surprising, so many businesses fail to consider this a priority. Investing in such a business function only adds another layer of professionalism to your service line.
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One of the best features of call monitoring is the ability to listen to and participate in live phone calls.
1. The Welcome Greeting. This is the first greeting callers hear when they call your company. Sample Scripts: “Thank you for calling [company name].” “Thank you for calling [company name].
AIM Dental Marketing® provides a complete turn-key package that works seamlessly with your existing phone system. Simply review our extensive library of dental on hold messages, then select up to 6 messages, adding any practice-specific information you would like. Our professional script writers review your input, and further customize the messages to your specifications. Once you approve your final message, our studio engineers create a customized recording for your exclusive use. We upload your approved audio file for easy download to your telephone system.
There are companies that offer you a 'free' on hold demo, 'free' script writing, 'free' updates etc, the cost of which is recouped by getting you into a lengthy contract.
USA Business Telephone Today conducted a survey of 30,000 callers to study the effects of hold music, or the lack of it, for a single minute. More than half the callers who were put on hold without any auditory stimulation hung up. The silence affected the rest of the group’s perception of time: More than 27 percent thought their wait time exceeded five minutes, and 18 percent thought it exceeded three minutes. Only 3 percent judged their wait time to be close to the actual one-minute timeframe. All of the callers in the study had listened to dead air for only 60 seconds.
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There’s even a fairly steady stream of surveys and news articles on the subject, all of which confirm that hold music is one of the aspects of contacting call centres that really drives people nuts. Some studies even go as far as to suggest that the use of bad hold music is regularly viewed as bad customer service.
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You also need to factor in your average wait time. If you know your callers will be listening for a while, choose something other than rock or alternative, which creates the perception of longer wait times.
If you still can’t find the right hold music or are lost among all the possibilities, you can create your own radio station that streams any music you’d like to your callers or upload your own MP3 files.
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