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6. "Hi, this is [your name]. I'm either on a call or away from my desk. Please leave your name, number, and a brief message and I'll get back to you. Thank you."
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49. Hello, you’ve reached the customer service team for [X company]. Our representatives are currently unavailable, but if you leave your name and a callback number, someone will get back to you shortly.
Hi Mary! First of all, I’m so sorry to hear that. What a horrible thing to have happen! It really depends on the manufacturer. There are high quality picture frames and small, less expensive ones that probably don’t have a lot of memory or ways to protect what’s been recorded. I would start with the manufacturer to see if they have any ideas. If they can’t help, try one of the recording suggestions we made in the post to see if they might be able to help. Even some Walgreens and Walmart have recording services, that preserve recordings, so they might also be able to help.
Open your phone’s voicemail app, then tap (or in some cases, tap and hold) the message you want to save. You should be presented with …
Open the Google Voice app .At the top left, tap Menu. Settings.In the Voicemail section, tap Voicemail greeting.Tap Record a greeting.Tap Record .Record your greeting and when you’re done, tap Stop .Choose what you want to do with the recording:
As a bonus, here is an example of our own holiday voicemail greeting here at OpenPhone:
While recording a message, make sure that you don’t yell into the phone and make sure you record in a quiet place. Setting this up in a restaurant will make your iPhone voicemail greeting sound like you are actually picking up the phone.
AT&T: If you’re an AT&T customer, you have the option of creating your own basic voicemail. You’ll need to press and hold the 1 key down while you’re on your phone. AT&T will then ask you to set up your greeting via voice prompts.
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The script is relatively similar, but the doctor is including a good reason for not being available, so patients don’t feel like they’re being ignored. He’s also left another avenue for patients to get in touch if they need some urgent help.
Hello, you have reached the dental office of Dr. X. We are busy assisting a patient now, but will call you back as soon as possible. Please leave your name, reason for calling, and your number. If this is an urgent enquiry, please call 911. In this case, the dentist is giving a reason for not being available and they’re providing a way to prioritize the patients who need the most help. They’re also leaving an emergency number for the most severe of situations.
If you use voice mail or an answering machine to answer calls when you can't, make sure that you have a professional message recorded, that does the same thing as tip #3, and gives callers any other pertinent information before it records their messages. Update your voice mail message as needed.
When I record my new voice message I do not have the stop option button and it keeps the existing voice message!! I have an iphone5 and I need to change my voicemail message!! Please help
Besides creating an audio file in the right format (Adaptive Multi-Rate), you also need to trick the iPhone to upload your new greeting to the AT&T servers:
We recommend including your name and a short message, especially if you use this phone for business purposes.
Fixing these kinds of problems is a process of elimination. There is no single fix for all voicemail problems so trial and error is the theme of the day: try one of the solutions below and then retest. If it works, great. If it doesn’t, move on to the next possible solution.