Make sure to check your phone system for any file requirements. The most common file format accepted is WAV. If you need to convert an audio file, you can use services like G711 or Audacity. Read More: 5 Ways to Get Customers to Love Your IVR Menu. How to choose the best hold music for your business. For telephone hold music, simple is best.
"I just wanted to tell you that I was on hold the other day, listening to the Halloween / Road Hazard message you wrote. It’s so funny! And the voices are hilarious, too. It made my day!" - Suzy Mitchell / Hercules Tires
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Once you’ve selected a professional on-hold messaging voice-over artist, we can help you hone the script prior to recording. After recording, we’ll mix the voice-over with your selected library music track. There are lots of great sites to buy library music. We frequently use Audio Jungle, but there are many others.
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have on hold music option when the caller calls in to the office and not just when the caller is connected to an extension in the office and waiting on hold Anonymous commented · July 30, 2019 2:41 PM · Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate · Edit… · Delete…
Solo guitar and piano music can also be decent choices provided you avoid songs with extremes of high and low volumes and pitch. Most phone systems come with default tracks that, coincidentally, fall squarely into these categories. If you’d like something a bit different then you can find plenty royalty-free tunes available to purchase online (they’re not all that terrible), but remember you'll need to pay for a PRS license if you want to make use of tracks by a recording artist.
-88% of callers preferred on-hold messages to other hold options, and 16 – 20% made a purchase based on an on-hold offer.
Telephone systems have evolved dramatically over the past decade. Whether you’re using a traditional phone system or an advanced VoIP system, our digital production studio can produce your recordings in a variety of compatible formats. We produce high-quality catchy on hold messages that give your business a polished and professional sound, at just a fraction of the cost of what our competitors charge. Why you can’t afford NOT to have an On Hold Message Recent research shows that promoting your business’ services, or educating your customers through an on hold message not only improves the customer experience – but increases the likelihood of a prospect becoming a customer. We’ve been helping businesses for years to improve their telephonic marketing through well crafted on hold messages.
Humor is a gift you can give to your callers. It lightens the mood, relieves stress, and can even ignite those random explosions of joy known as laughter.
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In short, no. Music played to callers on hold must be licensed for this type of use. By playing unlicensed music, legal action can be taken against your business. The music in Holdcom’s vast library is fully licensed for Message on Hold usage.
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AT&T has offered music while the phone is ringing to the calling party (music plays instead of ring...ring..ring), but they charge what seems to be a lot for the service and it only lasts for a year, as I recall. Lots of choices of music, though. No idea about call holding, try calling AT&T. Apr 14, 2009 3:40 PM Apr 14, 2009 4:53 PM in response to PsychedelicWonders In response to PsychedelicWonders
Music on hold helps you increase retention, reduce churn, and even influence your caller’s attitude with hold music. Go on, get your elevator music jokes out. We’ll wait (and chuckle). We’ve all poked fun at Muzak, but the importance of hold music and its multifaceted nature may surprise you. Seventy percent of business calls go on hold. The main point behind hold music is to signal that the line is still open, but that’s not all it does. You can increase retention, reduce churn, and even influence your caller’s attitude with hold music.
We put together some resources for a mix of both free-to-use and royalty-free hold music:
Interest, engage and maybe even amuse your callers. A happy caller increases your likelihood of success.
On-hold messaging is also great time to encourage consumers to spend. For example, you can offer customers who spend more than $99 free shipping, customers who order 3 items a 4th item free, etc. Think “upsell” with your ads on hold – you’ve got the customer on the line patiently waiting to (hopefully) spend money.