If I’m not available, just leave me a voice mail. Again, either way, it will be good to know what’s going on. Thanks in advance for that, and I’ll look for your call. You can reach me at (your number). That number again is area code (your number). Thanks ________.”
If you’re ready to go the professional direction, congratulations! Here are some websites you can use to hire a service to record your greeting.
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It’s a good practice for each of your team members to have their own personal business phone numbers. There are many reasons why they shouldn’t use their personal cell phone number for business, so you’ll want to give them their own phone number through your VoIP provider or phone system.
Once you have accessed the voicemail system, you will have the following options: Press 3: Advanced Options Press 5: Repeat Message Press 6: Next Message Press 7: Delete Message Press 8: Forward Message Press 9: Save Message Press 0: New Messages Press 1: Old Messages Press 2: Work Messages Press 3: Family Messages Press 4: Friend Messages Press #: Cancel Press 1: Record Unavailable Message Press 2: Record Busy Message Press 3: Record Name Press 4: Record Temporary Greeting Press 5: Change Password Press *: Main Menu How do I record my voicemail greeting or name? Option 1 – Unavailable message Option 2 – Busy message Option 3 – Record your name Option 4 – Temporary greeting
Standard greeting with your name: "At the tone, please record your message to [name]."
Pro tip: Only use first names. People of authority call each other by their first name only. Using the contact’s full name or saying Mr./Ms. [last name] can make you seem less confident and important than the person you’re calling.
So that person doesn’t pick up, and you are thinking ok cool, I’ll just call back – but NO – then you hear that dreadful message (correction: dreaded message): “Hi, this is Luke Skywalker, I am not available right now, please leave a message after the beep. I’ll get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you”
8. "Hi, you've reached [your name]. I'm unable to come to the phone right now. But if you leave your name, number, and a short message, I'll be sure to call back.
Outlook Voice Access enables you to use your phone to access voice mail, email, calendar, and contacts. The options you set for Outlook Voice Access include the order in which you access new messages and the folder that you dial in to, e.g., Inbox.
If you're going to call a prospect, you have to leave a message. Regardless of whether the prospect was actively screening calls or simply away from their desk when the phone rang, your number will pop up as a missed call. And if there's no accompanying voicemail? Well, it must not have been terribly important.
“If I leave a voicemail message on my first call in the morning, and I get voicemail again on my second attempt (either later that day or the next time I try and reach them) what do I say when that happens?”
You can set when you would like to send callers to your voicemail. For example, you may want to send all calls to voicemail when you know you’re going to be out of the office and not taking phone calls. 1
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Here are some tips for leaving courteous and business-like voicemails that will get returned. Think it through first. Introduce yourself. Speak slowly. Speak clearly. Mention your availability. Keep it short and sweet. Make sure your details are clear. End the voicemail professionally. How do you leave a professional voicemail example?
Even if you have this feature, it can only be used to send messages to contacts with the same carrier as you. So Verizon customers can send voice messages only to other Verizon customers, for example.
Sending out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly email newsletters offering valuable tips that will help your clients solve their problems goes a long way to becoming a value-added resource.
However, it’s awkward to just jump in without any context, so a very quick introduction followed by your question is the best option: Hi Erica, this is Ryan at Company X.