On hold messages can be recorded for many purposes, such as promoting your business, answering FAQs or announcing important customer service information. It's important to be clear in the message you are trying to get across. Confusion leads to disengagement and reflects badly on the brand. Determining your callers' wait times is necessary to determine the required length of the on-hold message. Making the recording too short can lead to the message being played too many times. This can be repetitive and lose the caller's attention while they hold.
BDM Voice also offers a number of market-leading call recording and call tracking solutions to enable you to record both inbound and outbound calls. If you’re interested in learning more about our Insight and insight:onsite products then please view our call recording solutions.
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We have a few examples below we’d like to share so you can customize your on hold messages based on your needs and industry:
It's a place most of us have been before: Knowing that you have no option if you wish to get the help you need, you reply, “Sure, I’ll hold,” and politely wait. If you have never been through what comes next before, you are lucky. If I am being completely honest, I am slightly envious.
VoIP, or Voice Over IP, is becoming a very popular alternative to traditional phone lines. This type of service operates over the internet, allowing businesses to make calls without paying for a regular phone service. If you use VoIP, that is no reason to forego on hold messaging. In fact, many services are now VoIP compatible. This makes your low-cost phone option that much better, because you can still enjoy the same useful marketing service.
Affordable, professional quality on hold music and messaging service, streaming music, website audio production, and voicemail services are designed to keep your caller interested and on the line.
Waiting queues allow your callers to wait on you on the line but you should not exceed the waiting time for more than 5 minutes. A queue announcement can also be introduced after the “message before answering”. After the “message before answering”, the waiting announcement is immediately cut.
Voice over Internet Protocol, similar to cellular networks, is handled digitally. Ringback is one way in which VoIP is setting itself apart from traditional telephony services. When you subscribe to business VoIP, your phone will most likely come pre-programmed with both ringback and on-hold music. VoIP providers, unlike cell phone carriers, don’t charge extra for ringback tones. Not only that, you can upload your own custom ringback and on-hold music, such as a favorite song, a customized soundtrack, or even a customized greeting or up-sell message. VoIP subscribers can select different connect and on-hold music by accessing their online portal.
Here you’ll find a collection of commonly used oh hold message scripts along with the audio examples:
For a small expense it is easy to keep up to date with your on hold message programme If you are on a tight budget but want to take advantage of promoting your business while clients are on hold then Budget On Hold Message is for you!
and let us do all the work! Writing professional, polished and engaging on hold messages takes expertise. Our professional copywriters are experts in crafting messages to reflect your organisations brand and values. Our stable of 60+ professional voice-over artists ensures the perfect voice match for your brand. We'll record your messages in one of our 7 onsite, state-of-the-art recording studios. Then we'll mix your recorded messages with music from our 2,000+ track original, royalty-free music library. We'll do all this with super fast turnaround times and outstanding customer service.
*This does not include phones purchased off the shelf at office supply stores such as Staples and Officemax. For the most part, these phones do not have the Message on Hold capability built-in. Add-ons are available for some models but their functionality can be problematic or inconvenient for the user. The best course of action is to upgrade to either a basic key phone system or one of the new virtual phone systems, for which Holdcom is a key audio production supplier. Contact Us for more information.
Hold music is also not supported in consultative transfer of a PSTN call. Call answer/initiate (by name and number) Lets users answer inbound calls with a touch, and place outbound calls either by dialing the full phone number or by clicking a name in the client.
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.
Send that message, or get information needed, and press thumb button at bottom center screen/phone and all apps on “Home Screen” will return, If need to return to actual call in progress/or on hold, press the center button twice quickly.
Choose on hold music that suits your business or utilise customer waiting time with tailored advertising solutions. Your business’ on hold communications could be helping you sell or educate callers to the services and products you provide. Invest in the professional on hold messaging services from us today. 70% of all calls are placed on hold. The average on hold time is a staggering 43+ seconds. 90% of new callers hang up after 40 seconds without a hold message. 34% of callers that hang up will not call back. Callers stay on the line up to 3 times longer because of our tailored messages.
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