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.
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Probably a lot less than you think! There are variety of affordable on hold message plans & pricing, and typically a small monthly fee starting at around $59 can be all it takes to get a professional sound for your brand, enhance the caller on hold experience and drive revenues.
Another opportunity to improve customer service is to provide customers with self-service information. If you have help documentation or resources online, be sure to mention them on hold, so that your callers can access that helpful content on their own, leaving your staff free to help with more unique concerns.
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Free Stock Music provides free music for download and even has a tag for music on hold. Beatsuite is a great resource for royalty-free hold music, and they also offer professional voiceover services for on-hold messages. Easy on Hold is another great site, and they even break down how their system works with all types of phones, including VoIP!
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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.
You’ll notice that there’s not too much of a difference between the track when played at CD quality and over the phone. All the instruments can still be heard clearly, and the same techniques I used to introduce clipping on the other two tracks had no effect (I could have kept amplifying the track until it did, but it proved the point). And because it’s fairly bland and inoffensive, you’re not going to upset anyone too much if it’s not their cup of tea.
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