“The on hold messaging for Discount Parts Exchange has a great mix of humor and relevant information. The voice talent is excellent and seems to be a great fit for their target audience.” - Mike Kurtz / On Hold Messaging Association's MARCE Awards Judge
Professional business voicemail greetings are significantly different from ones you record for individual use and complete your professional business image. They’re more generic in nature and designed to provide information to the caller while ensuring they leave a message. Where possible, explain when you expect to return calls. Typically, they’re recorded for the following:
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2. If the hold is more that a couple of minutes make sure to thank customers for their time. Apologize for delays if hold time is significant.
A Holdcom Consultant will review your script to check for grammar & syntax and verify any necessary pronunciations before submitting to production.
On this page, we've featured some of our best on-hold messaging voice-over talents, but if you don't hear what you are looking for, please do contact us for help. It's free to ask us for samples & auditions with no obligation.
At Killerspots, we allow you to create completely customizable greetings and messages. All you have to do is let us know which music or message you’d like to play! From there, we’ll record it and get it hooked up to your phone line so that you can start taking advantage of your customer wait time.
In his role building Cisco’s first version of IP phones, he was aware of Cisco’s need for a piece of music to use as the default hold music for the new system. Cut to several years later, and their high school composition has become the hold music for the world’s most popular phone systems with over 65 million IP phones sold.
Length – if your callers typically wait 2 minutes at a time, then at least 2 minutes of programming should be the goal. The idea is to ensure the callers don’t hear repeated messages every time they call. A typical on-hold message is 4-8 minutes in length.
Choose from male or female voice talent, and from multiple voice tones including natural, energetic and professional. Select one that best suits your brand and industry. Our Voice Artists are some of the most experienced in Australia and have produced countless voice overs including TV and Radio Ads.
-88% of callers surveyed want to hear product information on-hold and will stay on the line longer if provided with this information – roughly 16-20% said that they have purchased additional products based on information they heard while on-hold.
A fantastic service provided, prompt communication and a great end result. Daniel makes it extremely easy to make changes and goes out of his way to provide outstanding customer service. Would definitely recommend this company. 10 months ago
Your file will be delivered to you with 15 seconds of background music (or blank airtime if you do not choose background music) after the voice message. This will give you 15 seconds of music (or blank airtime) between each message when run in a loop.
Combine with a Business Intro Message to provide menu options and assist in telephone navigation. As opposed to the passive nature of Messages On Hold, voice prompts are interactive. They are designed to bring out a physical reaction from the caller, a call to action. And because voice prompts are directive, it’s important they’re concise, well written, and recorded by a professional voice artist.
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Whether it’s music, marketing messages, or a combination of both, the recording should be long enough so it doesn’t loop back to where they started when they were first put on hold. If you don’t typically have long wait times, this should be no problem. If calls get stacked up sometimes, you’ll want to make sure that the recording is at least as long as your typical wait time on a busy day.
Being stuck on hold is a frustration most people can relate to. Annoying beeps, irritating dial tones and vague queue times result in an unpleasant experience most of us would go lengths to avoid. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be that way, with Custom Messaging On Hold.
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.