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Your business voicemail recording is a great opportunity to extend your marketing to current and potential customers. Make sure you are maximizing your marketing reach with these 5 tips to optimize your voicemail recording.
Take the time to listen to calls, call back if necessary, use your cell phone when you’re out of town, and take care of anything actionable listed in the messages instead of watching your mailbox fill in. This kind of attention to detail can go a long way towards building a good reputation and image for the business. Good luck!
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The bottom line is that a business’s situation is likely to change often and rapidly, each of which need a unique and applicable voicemail greeting to cover the circumstances and timeline. For example, callers shouldn’t reach a business-as-usual voicemail, and therefore expect a return call within the business day, if the subject they’re calling is out on vacation for two weeks. Such a lack of communication is a recipe to lose that caller’s trust and tarnish the brand’s reputation.
Voicemail greetings should be professional, but the structure can vary depending on the situation. Here's a sample voicemail greeting script: " …
After all, a professional voicemail recording boosts your credibility, makes you seem more competent, and encourages whoever's listening to it to continue the relationship.
Are you creating a voicemail greeting for your entire company or team? These business voicemail greetings will do the trick.
Smiling while you record your voicemail message can actually be heard on the other end of the line. People speak differently when they’re smiling and callers can tell if you’re unhappy. When you greet someone in person, it is usually done with a smile so your voicemail greeting should be no different.
Here are some great examples to help you compose your own professional voicemail message:
Hello, you’ve reached the customer support department at Sugar Sweets. We’re very sorry, but we can’t get to the phone right now. We may be able to answer your query within the FAQs section of our website at www.sugarsweets.com.
If you have a main business phone number that’s shared with the customers or publicly listed, you’ll want to make sure it has a professional voicemail message to greet callers. Here are sample greetings you can use to help you craft your own.
5.) Chers clients, notre bureau sera fermé du 24 décembre au 2 janvier. Vous pouvez nous contacter comme d’habitude le lundi 5 janvier. Nous vous souhaitons à vous et votre famille un joyeux noël et une nouvelle année réussie…
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7.) Benvenuti all’ufficio legale John Doe. Ci scusiamo, ma al momento non possiamo rispondere personalmente alla vostra chiamata, perché state chiamando durante le nostre vacanze annuali. Non esitate a inviarci una e-mail a: info@lawoffice-johndoe.de – Vi contatteremo al più presto possibile al nostro ritorno. Per casi urgenti, vi preghiamo di contattare i nostri responsabili d’ufficio. Potete trovarli sul nostro sito web: www.lawoffice-johndoe.de. Grazie per la vostra chiamata – Arrivederci.
Enhance your unified communications solution by incorporating any of our live telephone answering services. For example, if you are unavailable, your Solaxis system will route calls to one of our courteous and professional live answering service agents. Your business voicemail system doesn’t stop with voicemail – it begins with Sound Telecom.