Yes. Holdcom can readily incorporate client supplied audio components (with permission and licensing) into its Message on Hold programs. Upon request, we can include messages from CEOs and Presidents, company jingles, radio excerpts, television ads, or any other existing content.
Someday somebody’s gonna put you on hold and make you cry… Cheer up, you’ll only have to hold on for one more day.
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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!
The team at Messages On Hold have been nothing but an absolute pleasure to deal with. Having dealt with several different departments to date, each interaction has been professional, friendly, prompt, informative and helpful. They've also displayed patience and understanding when there was some initial frustration with our beginning set up. We've had a fantastic experience and if you're looking for someone to look after your audio productions I can highly recommend their services.
Next, the LinkedPhone app will prompt you to complete your profile by entering your name, email, and photo (optional). Your email will be used to send you voicemail, tips, and instructions.
Whether it’s when being transferred through to someone else, or simply waiting for the correct person to become available, being on hold presents a marketing window of opportunity to sell additional products and services, enhance your branding efforts, offer a more professional image or provide helpful information.
This brings up the ever-present question of appropriate branding for your business. At a funeral home, Green says, you don't want an upbeat pop song, for obvious reasons. Mark Malekpour, who works at Beatsuite, a music library which sells a variety of songs specifically for hold systems, says that companies too often want popular music. "For an insurance company, you don't want something from Queen or U2," he said. "When you're choosing music for an insurance company, it shouldn't feel happy or feel good or lighthearted, because insurance is something you have to have, and you want to think, 'These guys get what insurance is all about.' " (Beatsuite's bestselling hold song is called "Inspiring Innovation," which is tagged as: "Success, achievement, and trustworthy.")
At times, a client’s messaging calls for a very specific voice, and we’ve had good success finding just the right voice for the job, even if it’s someone we’ve never worked with before.
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:
Currently the on hold music starts from the beginning every time. Our on hold file has office information, bios of our doctors, as well as dental tips and services we provide. Since the on hold plays from the beginning every time someone is placed on hold, they end up hearing the same thing every time. We would LOVE the ability to choose for our on hold audio to loop. And when someone is placed on hold they just start listening to where the audio recording is currently on. So they get to hear different parts. Anonymous commented · July 25, 2019 2:00 PM · Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate · Edit… · Delete… Anonymous commented · April 3, 2019 10:10 AM · Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate · Edit… · Delete…
Custom On Hold Messages elevate your brand and increase sales — and they’re affordable!
Even if you have a VoIP telephone system, your call will eventually go across the PSTN (like the traditional landline calls), where network operators are able to do whatever they like. Plus VoIP and mobile operators use high-compression codecs that degrade the overall quality of the sound. A good codec can take a 9600bps audio stream (toll quality ISDN voice) and take it down to the required bandwidth by a factor of 10 or more.
These hold advertisements can help you sound more professional, and make more progress on every phone call. Give your callers the right information and you can start more of the conversations that you want to have with them. Here’s a sample of an actual on dental hold message playing on a Yealink System
- Audio file names should contain only upper and lower case letters, numbers, underscores, and a single dot ‘.’ symbol only.
Here is our top 5 recommendation of what to look for in a quality on hold message provider:
Organising your Customised Message On Hold is as easy as contacting us. Each business is unique and your advertising on hold message reflects this. You will need to answer a few questions about your business and from that we can create a draft for your review. Changes are made as necessary until we have final approval taking your script to the next stage.
Hold music has a paradoxical purpose: Keep folks on the line, but don't draw their attention. DigiPub/Getty Images