Since 1999, the Killerspots Agency has been known for its award-winning creative production styles, on-time deliveries, and customer experiences. We’re a contagiously creative, full-service digital marketing, production, and media agency. Our culture is a strategy at its core.
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.
.
Since 1999, the Killerspots Agency has been known for its award-winning creative production styles, on-time deliveries, and customer experiences. We’re a contagiously creative, full-service digital marketing, production, and media agency. Our culture is a strategy at its core.
Most typical on hold scripts include: “Thank you for your patience” and “Your call is important to us”.
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.
Calls overflow to the voicemail box if they can’t be answered during business hours. This may be during unusually busy periods or if there is no one to take the call.
MOH made my job so easy. They took care of everything, and the turnaround was super fast. Highly recommend using them!
Cornell's "I'm On Hold" follows some of the industry standards, particularly around frequencies and compression, which is one of the reasons he wrote it with a country-ish melody, wanting something simple but catchy, with only a single instrument and vocals. But in other ways, "I'm On Hold" totally upends the genre by breaking the cardinal rule — that hold music shouldn't call attention to itself.
You will most likely run into the typical Stalingrad-esque repeating messages that state how important your call is to the business. It is only slightly less annoying to have some form of default music that plays on a loop, and gives you the virtual experience of being stuck in an elevator, listening to muzak ad infinitum.
Reach more customers. Give your callers something to listen to while waiting—not silence or the radio! Take advantage of the benefits of on hold messages and sell more.
It seems pretty self-explanatory: on-hold messages are messages that play “on hold” over your telephone system. These professionally produced recordings are also an integral part of your company’s marketing strategy. By providing timely, relevant information about your business, an on-hold messaging program reinforces current marketing campaigns and builds brand recognition. This in turn increases call retention by improving the caller experience. To top it all off, it also increases sales by targeting key demographics.
Adding a professional Message On Hold program to your phone system is an easy way to improve the image of your business. It helps you make a great first impression and helps your customers get valuable sales and service information. Here are 6 ways a professional on hold message can help improve your image:
Our patients tell us the "On Hold" music is to loud. We would love to have a way to control the volume. Jane Stabnau commented · November 20, 2019 1:57 PM · Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate · Edit… · Delete…
Generic pop songs perform better than those with prosocial lyrics or instrumental music. It turns out people calling in with grievances don’t want to hear songs about helping the world, and stereotypical elevator music triggers anger when on hold for extended periods.
Hold music and on hold music - one hour of the best music on hold: Volume #1. For use of hold music for telemarketing and hold music for phone systems. This
If you need any help with your business phone system, reach out to a trusted IT support or phone system provider. About Courtney Casey
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.