Below are examples of excellent professional voicemail greetings for various situations to help you get started in creating your own perfect greeting! For each, we’ve included helpful tips, a sample voicemail greeting script, and an audio recording. The greetings are grouped by company greetings, department / team greetings, and personal business greetings. These greetings are likely longer than what you would want to use in real life – but our goal is to help you generate ideas to help you create your own!
Writing a script doesn’t mean you have to write a speech. A simple greeting is fine, like this sample voicemail message:
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After Hours Greeting – Voicemail Only. Thank you for calling _____. We are currently closed. Our regular business hours are Monday through Friday from 9am – 5pm, Pacific Standard Time. Please leave a message, and we will return your call the next business day.
This is the message that your customers hear when they call during business hours. Greetings often have a short welcome message and list the menu options.
Setting up voicemail includes the following steps: Creating a voicemail greeting. Setting voicemail options on the main extension that you want to use for your Phone.com number. See Setting Up Voicemail on Your Extensions below to do this. Setting a call handling rule on your Phone.com number to forward unanswered calls to voicemail.
39. Hi, this is [your name]. I’m not at my desk right now, so leave a message and I’ll call you back within 24 hours.
8. Morgan Freeman Shares His Voice for Voicemail Greetings. Morgan Freeman is known for his voice so much that he was asked to play the voice and image of God in Bruce Almighty.
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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."
1.) Welcome to John Doe. Unfortunately, there is no one in the office right now or your are calling outside of business hours. Please leave a message or send an email to [email protected]. Many thanks for your call.
If you designate a phone number for anything other than an emergency, then 9 times out of 10 people will call you for piddly little stuff that they could just send to help desk. On the other hand, if there's an emergency then a warm body really needs to answer the phone. At any rate, all voicemail greetings need to be short and to the point.
27. Hi, It’s [your name] of [your company]. I’m in a meeting at the moment. Please leave your message and contact information, and I will get back to you within [realistic timeframe]. Thank you for calling.
29. Hi, you’ve reached [your name] at [your company]. Please send me an email at [email address] if this is urgent, and I’ll get in contact with you as soon as possible. If this is not urgent, please leave me a brief message about the reason you are calling with your contact information and I’ll get back to you in the next 24 hours. Have a great day.
9. Outgoing Message with Samuel L. Jackson Treatment. Stephen Colbert asked Samuel L. Jackson to record his infamous voice on his outgoing message recording.
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Since you are recording audio, make sure you are in a silent place or a place with minimum background noise. This will help you create a perfect business voicemail greeting clear.
20. "Hey there, this is [your name] from [your company]. I'm out of the office until [date]. In the meantime, please direct your inquiries to [coworker's name] at [email address]. They can also be reached at [phone number]. Thank you."