Making Sure Your Voice Mail Gets The Message Across
Trying to remember a time before we had voicemail isn’t easy to do. It seems like it has been around forever. Prior to voicemail people relied on answering machines to deliver the phone messages that had been missed for whatever reason.
If someone tried to call you when you weren’t home you would never know it without an answering machine or voicemail. While voicemail and answering machines are a good thing they can also be seen as something that has made your friends seem like robots on the other end of the line.
Having voicemail or an answering machine is a necessary evil for us though. We just plain can’t be by the phone 24 hours a day and being able to leave and receive massages works out great for everyone. In one shot you can leave a message and know that the person intended is going to get it.
Even though making voice mail recording and leaving messages has been around for quite a while people still make mistakes when doing this. Many people will benefit from a quick course in proper voicemail etiquette.
Don’t be one of those people that over thinks leaving a message on someone’s voicemail. It’s not rocket science and doesn’t need to be taken that seriously. Leaving a message that is just short and to the point is perfectly find. Just please don’t hang up on someone’s voicemail. That can be very annoying.
Leaving a message is a considerate way to let the other person know why you are calling, which also shows that you know their time is important.
Often people don’t leave a message because the outgoing message is long or unclear.
An outgoing message should be short and to the point, so that others quickly know that they reached the right person.
While some people enjoy having cute or funny outgoing messages, it is much more professional to be short and to the point.
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