Quick Tips To Help Your Voicemails Make You Money

Quick Tips To Help Your Voicemails Make You Money

We All Know This Feeling...

You feel a rush of excitement as your appointment reminder on your outlook tells you it is time to call your biggest prospect. You quickly review in your mind what you want to say. You envision their positive response. You get in your last "cheerleader" words of encouragement and you finally dial! As you wait to hear the ring your heart rate increases even more, you can hear the "Hello" on the other end. One ring...two rings...three rings...then voicemail.

As you disappointedly listen to the recording you go from discouragement to frenzy in a millisecond as you realize you need to leave a message since they were expecting your call. Your mind races in a thousand directions as to what you want to say. Before you can gather your opening line, you hear it..."BEEP."

A Neglected Art

Most of us have a love/hate relationship with voicemail. Sometimes, we secretly want it. It allows us to avoid people or hard conversations. It can save time. Some circumstances force us to use it. Maybe you can't reach somebody after endless calls, or you committed to calling someone at a specific time.

Regardless of why we are leaving a voice message, it is a tool we frequently use, and there are specific strategies you can employ now to make your messages stand out and be remembered.

Despite the common act of leaving voicemail, the skill of "message leaving" still hasn't received much attention, even though the messages you leave ARE a part of your selling process. Your messages DO either contribute or take away from what you are trying to accomplish. Think about this way, leaving a voice mail is basically like having a one-sided conversation. You are talking to them, and they are not able to answer. But there is a sender and a receiver so it is classified as a conversation. All that to say, your voice messages do have an impact on your sales success and the client's perception of you, so try the ten quick and easy tips now and make your messages give you the results you desire.

Over the next couple of weeks we will evaluate 10 quick tips to help your voicemails make you money!