Route callers quickly and efficiently with professional voice prompts in a consistent, clear and concise voice. close
4. Include Other Contact Methods. If there are other ways to get in touch with your business, or receive information about your products, you may want to include them in the after hours greeting.
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Get a professional recording of your Auto Attendant (IVR) prompts and ensure your business keeps up the image it deserves.
With a small or mid-sized company, you have fewer staff dedicated to answering the phone, and fewer resources to invest in a phone answering service. In fact, the most recent government data indicates that 80 percent of US businesses are “nonemployers,” meaning a single person runs their own company and doesn’t have any employees.
In the side panel, under Holiday Auto Attendant click Schedule.
And remember, while you’re busy returning your calls, Blitz can be automating other parts of your sales process. We can assign leads to your staff or even send emails to your customers.
Stephen Colbert asked Samuel L. Jackson to record his infamous voice on his outgoing message recording. Click here and listen on Youtube to what it would sound like if Mr. Jackson leant his voice to your voicemail recording.
5. "Hello, [Person's name] is chasing new adventures and is no longer with [Company name]. Please forward all future requests to [New or interim person's name] at [phone number]. Thank you!"
Create a new schedule—Create a new name for the schedule and select the business hours. Edit Business Hours Menu Options for Auto Attendants
If you’re interested in seeing how recording unique call greetings would work for your company, request a demo from Call iQ today!
To configure Skype for Business server users for Cloud Voicemail, please see Plan Cloud Voicemail service for on-premises users. Enabling protected voicemail in your organization When someone leaves a voicemail message for a user in your organization, the voicemail is delivered to the user's mailbox as an email message attachment.
As a bonus, here is an example of our own holiday voicemail greeting here at OpenPhone:
Lastly, the configuration is complex (especially if you have never dealt with these systems before) and the documentation is sparse. This package came from Telco Depot, however, and despite my having worked with similar system before, I did have 2 small problems which I called the tech support number about. The technicians were extremely helpful!! My issue only took about 20 seconds to solve and on my second call, the tech connected remotely to my computer and walked me through the configuration step I was getting wrong.
3. Thank you for calling GetVoIP, we are currently away due to the holiday, and our office will be closed from Monday the 12th, until Friday the 16th. We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward to serving you once we return. Please feel free to visit our website, GetVoIP.com, to learn more about how we can help.
It’s highly applicable for businesses that want to add a personal touch without having to record individualized greetings. It’s also great for people who want to address their friends and family more uniquely and warmly.
4. Funny Voicemail Greetings. Hi, you’ve reached [your name] at [X company]. We are busy trying to save the world by [what your company does best]. If you want to learn more about how we do it, please leave us your name and phone number, and we will get back to you as soon as our mission is complete— which should be fairly soon.
If you’re going to ask someone to wait to listen to your automated navigation system, it’s a good call to let them know they’ve reached the right place and to add a little bit of branding and personality to your call. This is the next step of getting the call on the right track.