“Did you know?...as well as providing top quality on hold messages, Media Music Now has a library of around 4000 hand-selected quality tracks of royalty free music; can provide custom written music from a choice of composers; offers professional voice-overs and a whole range of audio editing services including podcast and audio book production”
Unfortunately, it gets worse. Due to general sloppiness when it comes to setting the volume level for music on hold, a form of distortion known as “clipping” can appear, and regularly does if you’re willing to believe personal anecdotal evidence. If you want to know about the science behind clipping, then Wikipedia will tell you everything you need to know, but for those of us who have things to get on with, we can get by just knowing that when something is played too loud down a phone line, the sound starts to distort and sound really horrible.
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Where this creates an extra snag with music on hold is that the loudest part of a song doesn’t typically come in until the final chorus or reprise. This means that if you just listen to the first 10 seconds to check that your new hold music is working, then chances are you’ll be blissfully unaware that three minutes into holding (just as customers are beginning to feel irritated anyway), you start playing a sound like fingernails on a blackboard to them.
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We've just received our recordings from Messages On Hold and couldn't be happier with the whole process! They were incredibly helpful with the scripting and really quick with their responses. It was great to be able to listen to the voice and on hold music options to pick the most suitable to our business. Southern Metropolitan Cemeteries NSW
Popular and effective scripted announcements can include information on business hours, location, directions, promotional services or sales, and any other relevant customer service related message. Music, marketing messages, and interactive customer response features (i.e. customer satisfaction surveys) can be catered to captivate and engage your customer while they wait.
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For a more modern example of a bad choice of hold music, let’s take an example I have to endure on a regular basis, Month of Sundays by Passenger. At CD quality it’s got lots of interesting stuff going on, which you’d imagine might be ideal to distract someone from the fact they’re being kept on hold for ages. However, playing it over the phone it’s simply too busy. As soon as the brass and backing vocals kick in it just sounds yuck.
The intro greeting should be a reassurance that the caller has reached the correct organization along with general information about the company, and information that you want the caller to have on hand. Good information to provide at this point might include organizational slogans, years in business and general product information.
This customised messages is yours outright, you are not locked into a contract or ongoing payments, if you see your business wanting to change messages during the year ie: seasonal promotion or to keep your messages fresh or if you are relocating you can change out single segments without having to get a new message!
-8 to 15% of a company’s customer base is lost each year, 68% is due to indifferent or negative phone treatment.
It doesn’t matter if you’re writing marketing copy or if you’re writing a comedy script; everything must stay on brand. Writing is about capturing your inner voice and sharing it with an audience. The same applies when you’re writing for a company, and its brand is its voice.
Listen to samples from our talent and choose the voice that appeals more to your brand. In addition to on hold messages our voice talent can also record voicemail greetings, radio commercials, video presentations and more.
Your business phone is more than a phone, it’s your other front door, an entry way to your business. With custom auto attendant instructions, company directories, holiday and promotional recordings or IVR prompts, you’ll create a positive first impression and enhanced customer experience.
Here you’ll find a collection of commonly used oh hold message scripts along with the audio examples:
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.”
The included USB drive is preloaded with 6 hours of royalty-free music recorded specifically for music on hold with standard pleasant "thank you for holding" messages inserted every minute.