Answer incoming calls during normal hours with a custom phone greeting specific to your business with routing options to particular departments or employees, or just give callers the information they need.
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1. Hello, you’ve reached [your name]. I’m currently unavailable, but leave your name and number and I’ll return your call as soon as I can.
Thank you for calling [Company Name]; we are currently closed in observance of [holiday name]. We will return on [Date] at 8 AM Eastern Time. If you would like to reach our Dial by Name Directory, please press 1. To leave a voicemail, please press 2. A representative will contact you upon our return. To repeat this menu, please press the # key. [If no response after a few seconds] Goodbye. Voicemail Greeting
Many people have a plain vanilla greeting, and often you're not even sure if you reached a human being or just a machine. "Hi, you've reached 555-1212. Leave a message." Who am I calling, and why should I care enough to leave a message with you?
Professional voicemail greetings for individual departments can be used to create a consistent tone and voice for the business across all departments. Prevent caller hang-up by providing them with the assistance or call back they need.
Staff at Centre Salon and Spa in Westminister, Colorado, pride themselves on being on time, but on the rare occasion when a stylist is running behind the front desk staff intervenes before the guest starts to fret, say Owners James Pacifico and Cathy Schafer: “We apologize for the wait time, thank them for their patience and give them a Service Recovery Card which can be used for a complimentary service on their next visit.”
File formatting specs are noted in your system manual or can be ascertained from your system provider. If you can provide us with the specific make and model, our producers will be able to determine the format required.
According to AT&T’s 2016 data, “150 million texts are sent to landline numbers every day, even though many of those lines are not text-enabled.”
Here’s the final step of the company greeting: give your callers the next steps. If they need to do something specific to get what they need, mention it now. Let them know if they’ll need to make a selection from a menu, or have their account number or member ID ready. You’ve got their attention at the beginning of the call, whether they’re dealing with an automated recording or an actual person, so let them know what information you’ll need right off the bat– it will save everyone time in the process.
Check for outages and troubleshoot problems with your home phone or internet service.
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.
Assign an existing schedule—Select a previously created schedule from the drop-down menu.
-(Very long pause) Wait! Please don’t hang up! I want to hear what you have to say.
"This message is AMAZING! Exactly what we were looking for and we couldn’t be more impressed. Thank you very much! "
I love my job because [XYZ company] is the best place to work at. Please leave your full name, contact info, number and other details and I’ll call back within 24 hours! Thanks a bunch.”
2. Personal Voicemail Greetings. Customer Support Representative Voicemail Greeting. Hello, you've reached [name] at [X company]. If you need help with [X reason] please contact [X person/X system] or [visit our website and send us an email].