Take 1, Take 2, Take 3 Until You Get It Right

Final important voice mail tip many voice mail systems allow you to listen to it and redo it if you’re not happy.

Very few people ever follow up on that but do it now.

You don’t want to spend 10 hours listening and redoing.

A simple message to your boss every day will eat up too much time.

But if it is someone who doesn’t know you where there’s not a strong pre-existing relationship a client prospect maybe a brand new client and you’re not sure.

Maybe you had a bunch of US arms.

Hit the button that allows you to listen to the message and then hit the buttons as if you’re not happy.

Hit this button and rerecord it keep recording it and listening to it until you’re comfortable with it.

This alone should take some of the stress off a lot of times people get nervous and that’s when the ums come out.

If you know in advance it is voice mail then it takes all the pressure off you can just read do it until you’re happy with it.

Also I should have mentioned this earlier but it’s critical.

So often these days we’re just assuming it’s going to be voice mail we can’t actually get a human being that we’re often shocked to have an actual human being pick up.

That’s the best of all possible worlds.

Don’t say oh I was hoping to get your voicemail.

Use the opportunity.

Be ready for the opportunity to say exactly what you wanted to say.

Don’t make them hang up so you leave a voicemail.

That’s awkward and frankly weird.

Don’t do that.

Okay here’s your homework.

I need you to leave a voicemail on someone’s phone and then call them up ask them to tell you what they think of your voicemail.

Get some feedback get it critique from someone else ideally in your place of business of what they think of the message you leave on your voicemail.

Please do that now.