1. TO IMPROVE HOW LONG CALLERS ARE WILLING TO STAY ON HOLD. Statistics from a CNN survey cited by Chron.com state that “70 percent of callers who are placed on hold with just silence hang up within 60 seconds; of them, 35 percent won’t call back.”
Physical media MOH methods provide quality control with prerecorded and licensed CDs, although some units still use cassettes. CDs are designed with or without voice-overs. Brief voice-overs, such as "Calls will be answered in the order that they were received", or "Please hold, your call is important to us," are basic examples. However, many vendors suggest more customized messages.
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1.) All our lines are busy at the moment – Please be patient. We will be with you momentarily – PAUSE – Have you already visited our website www.johndoe.com? Your concerns are important to us, please hold the line, you will be connected as soon as possible.- PAUSE – Just a moment please, the next available team member will be there for you shortly.
And if you write something that doesn’t impress your coworkers or earn accolades, that’s fine. It’s called the writing process, and it’s why most writers prefer their seclusion. All writers are embarrassed by their first drafts.
It is vital that you put your most important messages first, it’s all about interest and impact. It is a ‘Fact’ that 90% of callers put on hold without dialog or music will hang up within the first 40 seconds and 34% of those callers will be lost forever. Callers stay on hold up to three times longer with on hold messages.
USA Business Telephone Today conducted a survey of 30,000 callers to study the effects of hold music, or the lack of it, for a single minute. More than half the callers who were put on hold without any auditory stimulation hung up. The silence affected the rest of the group’s perception of time: More than 27 percent thought their wait time exceeded five minutes, and 18 percent thought it exceeded three minutes. Only 3 percent judged their wait time to be close to the actual one-minute timeframe. All of the callers in the study had listened to dead air for only 60 seconds.
We specialize in affordable, customized audio production for your business telephone system. Why play a radio station or take a chance on your customers hanging up while waiting because they only hear silence while they are waiting to talk to you? Now, for just $99, we can write and produce an effective, professional, on hold marketing program that will enhance your business image, increase sales and educate your customers about all the products and services you can offer them! After you’ve looked around and listened to the quality of our samples, click on the “Place an Order” tab and leave some information so we can contact you and start working on your customized script. Or, click “Email Us” to ask any specific question about your business and how we can serve you. We can also provide you with a digital on-hold machine that is specially designed just to play your messages over and over through your phone system. This machine also includes a removable USB thumb drive that will play the new messages we send to you. Set-up is easy and changing your messages to keep them fresh, topical and reflective of specials and promotions going on is even easier Call us toll free today or E-Mail us with your name and phone number and a representative will contact you within 24 hours. Your satisfaction is guaranteed.
You can change your messages through our online interface and have them playing on hold in 60 minutes or less.
Did you know that 94% of all marketing budgets are spent to induce a customer to call, and only 6% to handle the call once it is received? In total, your callers can spend hundreds, even thousands of hours On Hold each year! That’s a lot of wasted time.
On-hold messages let your customers know you haven't forgotten about them, and they are also a great advertising tool. While your customers are on hold you can tell them why your company is the best, or tell them about new product offerings. You pay only once for production, then the air time is free!
We’ve implemented on-hold messages for many companies and have learned a few tips along the way.
There’s even a fairly steady stream of surveys and news articles on the subject, all of which confirm that hold music is one of the aspects of contacting call centres that really drives people nuts. Some studies even go as far as to suggest that the use of bad hold music is regularly viewed as bad customer service.
Phone System feature. Description. Cloud auto attendants. Lets you create a menu system that enables external and internal callers to locate and place or transfer calls to company users or departments in your organization. Note that users do not need to be voice enabled to receive calls from the auto attendant.
To write a comedy script well, you need to be open with yourself and your audience. Write about your flaws as a company, and present them in a humorous light. The easiest way to start is to write about forcing people to stay on hold and joke about it.
3. Available Agents Greeting. What callers hear when they are routed to an available agent. Sample Scripts: “Please hold while you are connected to the next available agent.”