For those of you who are familiar with the veritable purgatory that is being “on hold,” I don’t have to tell you that you have just been thrust into a parallel universe where time slows down, and both your patience and sanity cannot survive.
Whether it’s when being transferred through to someone else, or simply waiting for the correct person to become available, being on hold presents a marketing window of opportunity to sell additional products and services, enhance your branding efforts, offer a more professional image or provide helpful information.
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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?
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.
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When you place a call on hold on your cell phone how do you get it to play message and music? Can you help us by answering one of these related questions?
That’s a big piece of a trillion dollar pie! The good news is, you don’t have to let all these callers off the hook. Studies show that with creative, professional sounding on hold messages your business will retain customers holding on the line (in fact callers will wait up to 3 times longer than silence or music), but you can also generate revenue by marketing additional products and services.
When your company phone rings that caller becomes a prospect. That brief time, spent on hold, can be an extremely powerful marketing tool; and the difference between gaining a client and losing a client. Our approach to on-hold messages is simple: Combine a captive audience with skillfully crafted ads, the right audio image and real marketing objectives and you'll hit a home run every time!
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8. Outside Business Hours. What the caller hears when they call your company outside of business hours. Sample Scripts: “Thank you for calling [company name].
Messages on Hold – continuous loop of music and messaging that plays as callers wait to speak to a business representative. Messages On Hold present a mix of marketing messages and customer service information that is mixed with music to play in a loop for callers waiting on hold.
We offer quality voice talents and professional voice actors who record in all languages, dialects, styles, and age groups to best suit your company needs. The right voice can make your message, your brand, and your mission resonate with callers. Find the voice to best fit your brand!
Message on Hold starts with a great script. A basic script consultation is included with every order. One of our script consultants will review your script and verify pronunciations of any special terminology, as well as provide suggested verbiage improvements, if necessary. For custom script orders, your consultant will take your ideas and source materials and transform them into customized scripting that will engage your callers. Our experienced staff will work with you to create, revise, and finalize your audio script so that it’s ready for studio production. We’ve helped businesses of all sizes, and within various industries, ensure their scripting will keep their callers informed and engaged.
I agree with you. The music phone service provider use is never the best! Like you, when I switch to my calendar on iPhone and ask my caller to wait while I do that, it would be great to have one of my iPod tracks play to him until I pressed the green bar again to return to the call. Surely one could set that up independently of the phone service provider: just a matter of substituting my music choice for my voice until I clicked back off hold?? May 15, 2009 12:10 AM User profile for user: Tamara Tamara User level: Level 6 (13,735 points) May 15, 2009 4:39 AM in response to DavidJA In response to DavidJA
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