How To Leave An Effective Business Voice Mail

How do I leave an effective business voice-mail?

When moving business communication to phone compared e-mail, the difference there is that the phone business communication is going to be picked up by voicemail most of the time. Seventy percent of the time we pick up the phone and we're going to get voicemail. Most of us pick up the phone and think we're going to get a person, but in reality we get voicemail. So again, voicemail suffers from very similar things business e-mail does, such as starting off with "Hi, Ben, this is Tim... I'm not... I'm going to be late... " You sort of ramble, and then you realize what you're going to talk about so you get to the end, but at that point you're speaking really fast and you leave your phone number really quickly, and that's how most business communications via voicemails take place. Knowing when you pick up the phone that you're going to get voicemail, you should leave your telephone number first, speak slower in the beginning and convey a short, concise business message with the action up front, and then finish with the close.