This is an easy and effective way to improve your business image while providing greater value to 85% of callers who prefer an on hold service with commercials over silence.
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Before you start, check with your IT support team or phone system vendor to see if there are any special requirements you need to be aware of. Things like: How long can the recording be? What type of audio file does it need to be? Is there a maximum file size?
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.
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It's a panoptic experience, being on hold while listening to someone singing about being on hold. Depending how long it takes for someone else to join the call, you could be listening for awhile. The music builds as time goes on, culminating in a spoken verse that begins: "Well, let me tell you all a story / about a man who was on hold all day..." This unusually self-aware song is the default music for a conference call service called UberConference, where "I'm On Hold" plays on a loop for anyone who calls in early, on almost every call that doesn't start exactly when it's scheduled to (or doesn't ever start at all). It's selected by nine out of ten call organizers, and plays over a million times per month, says Craig Walker, CEO of Dialpad, owner of UberConference.
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As providers of on hold messaging services for over a decade, the Solutions On Hold team offers the experience, technology and skills to help you get the most out of your on-hold marketing programs, yet still keep them easy to implement and simple to maintain. All of your on-hold messages are developed by professionals in the advertising and communications industries. Each message is customized specifically to help you spread your message. Then, using professional voice talent and licensed music, your customized on hold messages are crafted, recorded and mixed in our state-of-the-art sound studio.
Most business-class phone systems come with a library of pre-recorded on-hold messages or music for you to choose from. They also typically allow you to upload your own, giving you the opportunity to customize your callers’ experience while they wait.
* * A voice over script must accompany every order. The music is not available alone.
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Messages On Hold makes the most out of your telephone by tailoring specific on hold messages and on hold music that promote your business to your callers. It is the perfect internal marketing and customer service tool that affectively uses the valuable on hold ‘air time’ to promote your secondary products and services in a non-confrontational manner. Telephone messages on hold will also make your business sound more professional and much more established. Think about it, callers greeted with professional recordings will see you as a business that invests in themselves and has the means to continuously build their brand. Media Sound will produce a captivating audio production promoting your business and its products and services. Our copywriters will devise a script detailing your offerings, our voiceover artists will bring your scripts to life, and our audio engineers will further enhance your production by mixing your voice recordings with music and sound effects.
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Sample 5 – “Thanks for holding. Dazzle your clients with delicious cookies featuring your company’s logo! Orders are available for batches as small as 200 cookies! Someone will be with you shortly.”
With on-hold, it’s not just about upselling other services, although that is important. You can use the time a customer is on hold to educate them more about your business and about your industry.
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.