A phone call to your business is often the first encounter your customers and prospects have with your company. If no one is available to take the call, having the best professional voicemail greetings possible is important to leave a great first impression and to ensure that business opportunities don’t slip by.
Voicemails don’t necessarily have to be monotonous or extremely jazzy or funky. What you should be looking for is a balance between the two. Whenever you call someone and their voicemail greeting is playing, it tells you a lot about who they are, as a person. Which is why, you’ve got to put a little bit of “you” when it comes to voicemail. And the best part about all of this is, since you couldn’t come to the phone, at least the callers are having a good time listening to the message.

Techjunkie.com One sign that your phone calls are being ignored is how many rings before it goes to voicemail. Generally, the feedback ringtone will go through several cycles before the voicemail message comes up. If upon placing the phone call, it rings only once or twice and goes to voicemail then your calls are probably being declined. 443 is also the number to dial to retrieve voicemails. To switch voicemail off dial 1626. Voicemail deducts one minute from your Goodybag regardless of length of call (assuming you have minutes left) or, if not, costs 8p per call.
Visual Voicemail makes it simple for you to keep track of the messages you have received.