What is proper business etiquette when leaving a voicemail message?
When I leave a voicemail message, I use business etiquette and I tell people what time I can be reached. For example, "I'll be in my office after four o'clock, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Please try and call me at that time. Any of those days, I look forward to hearing from you then." We have to tell people when leaving a voicemail message. If I may talk about technology etiquette in terms of leaving a voicemail message, you should avoid playing what is considerably called phone tag as it irritates everyone. So I'll leave my name at the top and bottom of the voicemail message. I give my name, then I leave my number and then I give a brief reason for my call and then I give my name again and my number at the end of the call, with a "I look forward to hearing from you". If you leave your name at the front and the end of a voicemail message, they can push 1 at the end of the message, and get it at the top of the message again if they didn't get it at the bottom. Telephone etiquette when leaving voicemail messages is very important, because if you don't give a very clear reason why you're calling, and give a time frame for a response, people wont get back to you. You have to create some sense of urgency in the call and a good time for people to reach you and then you will have a higher incident for people to return your calls rather than dismissing them.
