Friday, April 15, 2005

His Voicemail is SO Good, People Call Every Day Just To Hear It

7:56 AM 3 comments


Last weekend I gave a presentation to the First Impressions team at a Cincinnati Church. We began talking about creative voicemail techniques when Rick, one of the team members, offered his own outgoing message as an example:

"Every single day I change my voicemail by putting a new quotation in the message. I've been doing it for years now and some people even call every day just to hear my new quotation! It's my way of spreading some positive words and having fun at the same time."

Wow, mobile approachability at its finest. People call Rick every day, just to hear his message! That's incredible. Now, it may take Rick a few extra minutes in the morning to record his message. But isn't it worth it to make an otherwise mundane encounter a little more personable?

LET ME ASK YA THIS...

How could you make your outgoing messages more personable?

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Scott Ginsberg
Author/Speaker/That guy with a nametag
www.hellomynameisscott.com

3 comments:

While at university I was an active member of the Gospel choir. As part of my private rehearsal I would often record a segment of song onto my my answering machine and play it back. One day, just for fun I decided to sing my voicemail greeting with the sole intention of deleting it. Somehow I forgot to delete it.

Later on that day I returned to my room to find my voicemail box was full. I had 12 messages, the first from a friend and all he said was "Oh man I've got to hear that again". He called back and then spread the word to the rest of his friends who called until they could call no-more.

This was my first year at university and I made very many friends from that simple recording.

Have you guys checked out youmail.com?
it's a free cell phone voicemail service that lets you create different greetings for different callers. you can also check voicemails online and even block specific callers from being able to leave voicemails using the Ditchmail feature.
it's VERY cool

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