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What Do Your Callers Hear?

If your business has a phone system with a hold button and you are not leveraging what opportunities it could unleash for your customers, let’s discuss.
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Spring Bank Holiday Update

To celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, we have a few Bank Holidays looming and we wanted to remind you to double-check your phone system settings to ensure they accurately represent your business hours.
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Promote your Website with a Solid On Hold Marketing Strategy

You may have a solid SEO strategy, and you could be blowing your competitors out of the water with your content marketing, but what about your on hold marketing strategy?
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The Rise of L&D

Workplace training has always played an important role in a company’s success. However a new study has revealed that it’s about to take a leading role. Enter the rise of L&D. As Covid-19 continues, the impact on business continues, and the skills gap continues to widen. For instance nearly nine in ten executives and managers say their organisations either face…
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Is your Missed call a Missed Opportunity?

With the rise of social and email communication and you could be forgiven for thinking a missed call isn’t that big of a deal, but you would be wrong. The actual impact of a missed call on your business is a missed opportunity. Research shows up to 80% of business communication still takes place over the phone and billions of…
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Why Do You Need Auto Attendant?

Any active business can benefit from Auto Attendant. It always responds, whether it's raining or shining, day or night. However, it's also critical to "design" an Auto Attendant correctly. This article looks at the advantages of implementing such voice menu systems.
A woman is at her desk in an office, talking on the phone and taking notes while her laptop hums quietly beside her. As she navigates through the conversation, you can almost hear the soothing hold messages that punctuate this busy work environment.

On Hold Messages Best Practices and Sample Scripts

On-hold messages are a great way to convey important company news and updates to your callers. Statistics show that people don’t want to listen to silence or a generic message saying, “Your call is important to us”. So why not fill this dead airtime with messages that provide helpful information. Here are a few tips we’ve learned along the way:…
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4 Steps to Implement a Successful On-Hold Marketing Strategy

On Hold Messaging is an essential marketing communication strategy for your business, so, if you don’t have an on hold messaging strategy, but are considering implementing one, read our blog post on how to get started.