ProTip: When recording a business voicemail greeting, do a trial run and listen to your message once it’s recorded to make sure it sounds great.
For the first agent, select the dropdown and choose External Numbers then New External Number
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5. Don’t Forget To Smile. Smiling is a total game-changer when it comes to the tone of your voicemail greeting. We’ve all heard someone smiling through a phone, but we rarely think about how different it sounds when we do.
Do you find yourself putting pen to paper, staring blankly at the wall, searching for just what to say? Well, know that it happens to the best of us. To help you out, we’ve included some voicemail greeting samples for you to look at. Both the 10 formal and 10 informal samples should give you the prompting you need to start crafting your own voicemail script.
10. "Hello, you've reached [X company]. We can't take your call right now, but please leave your name, contact information, and reason for reaching out, and one of our team members will be in touch within 24 hours."
5. Be Brief. The best after hours greetings are brief, direct, and punctual. Do not waste the customer's time and give them a reason to hang up by adding in unnecessary details.
Thanks for calling (ABC Inc). The office is closed in observance of the holiday. We will re-open Monday the 7th at 8am. If you need assistance, use our online form to email us or you can leave a message after the tone and a representative will call back when we return to the office. Thank you.
Click Auto Attendant and then select the auto attendant to edit from the list.
Some of the best business phone systems allow you to create multiple voicemail greetings so that you don’t have to constantly re-record your greeting. This is a great feature as it gives you the option to have different voicemail greetings depending on whether a call comes in during or outside of business hours.
9. OK, so I followed all the instructions that came with the machine. I pressed all the necessary buttons. So… now what? I… am… so… confused. Could you please… beep.
Greetings. You’ve reached the office of [Name]. I’m either out of the office or gone for the day. However, your call is extremely import to me, so I’d appreciate it if you’d leave your message, along with your contact information, at the sound of the beep. Thank you for your call.
Here you can choose between Adding a National Holiday or Creating a custom event. Add a National Holiday gives you a quick choice of pre-determined dates. You can choose a specific Prefill Menu and routing options for the receptionist groups. Create a custom event allows you to set up your own events. You can set up the schedule, routing options for the receptionist groups, and different menu options.
4. Hang-up the phone when you have listened to all the voicemails you want to save
Hey, not here right now and not really interested in who this is, I’m out on a wilderness retreat learning about the importance of making connections.
9.) Welcome to John Doe. Unfortunately, there is no one in the office right now. Please leave your name and phone number after the tone. We will call you back as soon as possible.
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When asked to press a number, pause on the phone/mic icon and click a number under the DIAL PAD tab.