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:
How much did you spend on your visual marketing last year: website, brochures, newspaper/magazine advertisements, posters, leaflets? Hundreds? Thousands? We all know how important it is to make our businesses look good but what about making it sound good? When did you last consider what your on hold messaging says about your business?
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Talk to your customer before you even pick up the phone. On hold messages are one of the best ways to communicate with your customer audience.
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This is an easy and effective way to improve your business image while providing greater value to the 85% of callers who prefer an on hold service with commercials over silence.
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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
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In order to get started with custom on hold messages, you will need to determine your phones MOH (Messages On Hold) capability. If you’re using a traditional pbx business phone system, you’ll need an on hold media unit to play the audio. If you’re using an ipbx or hosted voip set-up then all you need to do is upload the audio file as no media device is required. And, if your a small/home office business using a traditional off-the-shelf 2-4 line telephone then you’ll need the media device and an on hold module adaptor in order to make your standard analog phones on hold message compatible.
Verbal Content – generally, you should use 100 words to make up 1 minute of content produced with background music. In other words, one to two paragraphs per minute. The topic can range from product promotions to general company information.
Voice Prompts – usually combined with a Business Intro announcement, used for Auto Attendant and IVR prompts to provide menu options and assist in telephone navigation.
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Statistics show that approximately 34% of callers who hang up will never call you back. In addition, callers wait an estimated 70% longer on the line when they are listening to interesting information about the company they are calling. These statistics suggest that providing a customized message that is tailored to your company can be more effective than playing music or leaving the customer in silence while they’re on hold.
The team at Killerspots is committed to providing you with game-changing on hold messages and music. We want to make sure that you’re able to take advantage of the time your customers spend on the line. That’s why we offer a 100% guarantee on everything that we do! If you’re not satisfied with your message, we’re not either. Just reach out to our team and we’ll make sure to make it right. With us, you can rest easy knowing that you’ll receive an on hold message that works for your needs.
Messages On Hold makes the most out of your telephone by tailoring specific on hold messages and on hold music that promote your business to your callers. It is the perfect internal marketing and customer service tool that affectively uses the valuable on hold ‘air time’ to promote your secondary products and services in a non-confrontational manner. Telephone messages on hold will also make your business sound more professional and much more established. Think about it, callers greeted with professional recordings will see you as a business that invests in themselves and has the means to continuously build their brand. Media Sound will produce a captivating audio production promoting your business and its products and services. Our copywriters will devise a script detailing your offerings, our voiceover artists will bring your scripts to life, and our audio engineers will further enhance your production by mixing your voice recordings with music and sound effects.