Of those businesses that responded, 85% would recommend on hold messaging and believe it's a useful marketing tool that adds value to the business. They rated on hold marketing as effective as Internet, TV/Radio, Direct Mail, and Print marketing.
“Call center operators who picked up the phone reported feeling less emotionally exhausted when dealing with customers who heard standard pop music.” –Time, “Why Music on Hold Drives You Crazy”
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The best hold music has few instruments and preferably only one. Simple music handles the change in quality better than a full orchestra arrangement. The latter gets distorted, particularly if it’s too loud for the phone to handle and clipping happens. No one wants to hear a dirge-like cacophony masquerading as “Pachelbel’s Canon in D.”
Don’t know what the messages should say? You could engage a marketing or branding firm to help with this.
Tone - select the right tone for your business brand. If your target market are young millennials, then the script would most likely include some slang words, be quite laid back and the script would be recorded in an energetic tone. If you primarily service the business market, then the script would be more articulate and recorded with a more professional tone.
No one wants to be stuck on hold with silence (30 seconds feels like 5 minutes!).
You don't have to be a large national business to make an impression with your callers. On hold messages are ideal for SME businesses to sound just as professional.
Fantastic customer service from Lee when he set up an automatic answer message system for us. Nothing was too much trouble and he helped to solve our problem very quickly and easily. Thanks for all of your help.
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Unlike big expensive telephone systems, ordinary 2-line and 4-line aren’t music on hold ready. In layman terms, there’s no place to connect a message on hold player. The on hold adapter allows you to connect our message on hold media player, to easily add our custom music and messages on hold.
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.
Avoid using ‘please’ more than once, it gets wordy and redundant. The goal is to keep the content as concise as possible, moving callers quickly and seamlessly through the options.
5. TO SOUND UP-TO-DATE. Adding seasonal, holiday, or other temporary messages such a facility closures or construction notification to Message-On-Hold features helps make your business communicative, attentive, and that ever important quality of being “personable”.
Our extensive library of royalty-free music features different styles and genres throughout the decades.
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Talented professional voice actors can record your voicemail greeting, company directory, call menu and more. Greet all your customers with the most professional image possible.