It's the only song Alex Cornell has ever written. Cornell was one of the co-founders of UberConference, and in addition to being a designer, is a singer and guitar player who had always found songwriting frustrating. "Then I just came to it one day," he says. "I just wanted to write a pleasant melody designed to be heard over the phone." With encouragement from Walker, Cornell started messing around with the lyrics. He wrote and recorded it in one night, in 2012, as a voice note on his phone — and thus, this self-aware hold song was born, and lives on, seven years later.
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"We have actually had a few callers ask to be placed back on hold just to hear the entire production." - Jake Skeens / Suncoast Communications
Here you’ll find a collection of commonly used oh hold message scripts along with the audio examples:
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Sample 3 — "Thanks for holding. Did you know that JK Mortgage has special programs designed to help people who don't qualify for a standard loan? We can customize a loan specifically to meet your needs. Ask one of our certified agents for information. Someone will be with you shortly."
"Okay, I shouldn’t have opened [and read this copy] while I was on a conference call. That was a good laugh. Very good work." - Daniel Doxey / International Translating Company (Hear a sample)
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.
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Sample 3 — "Thanks for holding. Did you know that JK Mortgage has special programs designed to help people who don't qualify for a standard loan? We can customize a loan specifically to meet your needs. Ask one of our certified agents for information. Someone will be with you shortly."
So, given that hold music is such a powerful potential source of frustration, why do companies continue to get it wrong? Reading the articles that are out there, there seems to be a lot of speculation regarding the best choice of music to placate or even entertain customers while they wait in your queue. Some common suggestions include “Hanging On The Telephone” by Blondie, or Lionel Richie’s “Hello, is it me you’re looking for?”. Or how about looking up the customer’s record in your call centre CRM, grabbing their date of birth, and playing something based on their age range - pop for the under 25s and presumably something fusty for the oldies?
We strongly recommend that you write short, independent messages, with a musical interludes. The volume of the music should be turned down during narrative messages.
Just because you’re writing comedy doesn’t mean you won’t feel embarrassed by what you write. The goal of writing comedy is to overcome that embarrassment, and for you to help your fellow writers know they have nothing to be afraid of. The best comedy writing comes about when the writers are all the best of friends.
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