Why do people still leave voicemails

Mix up your communication methods; it increases your chances of making an impression. If you make dials a week which is over 10, a year! In my opinion, we all have 20 minutes throughout the day. Rep A makes 20 phone calls and leaves 20 voicemails. Rep B makes 20 calls and leaves zero voicemails. What can I absolutely guarantee tomorrow? One of the most common mistakes that reps make while leaving a voicemail is making them too long. There is no reason a voicemail needs to be longer than seconds.

What you CAN sell is time or a callback. Your voicemail needs to get their attention and then peak their interest with something that they can see value in as well as be relevant to them or their business.

Time is the most valuable asset any of us have. It means there is no reason for your call, so therefore there is no reason for me to listen or call you back. People instant message, text, and email all day, but most of us won't take the time to wade through a voice message.

Because voicemail doesn't integrate well with our average day, and things that don't integrate get neglected. This is part of the reason both Coca-Cola and JP Morgan have cut voicemail from their corporate offices. It didn't flow well with daily tasks, and no one used the service! Yet we do respond to hundreds of messages a day. We respond to emails and texts and social media IMs more times than we can count!

So if you're involved in a business that relies on communication with consumers, you need other ways of communicating with people than just calls and voicemail. I haven't missed listening to the messages at all. I never liked voicemail in the first place. You had to dial a passcode, wait for the beeps, and then repeat that process a dozen times per day until you wanted to drop your pone off of a cliff.

How was voicemail ever a good thing? It was never a productivity booster. Technology finally caught up to the concept, and voicemail crawled into a dark cave. I'm really happy about that. Top Stories. Top Videos. Getty Images. In the end, the entire concept of voicemail itself was inherently flawed. Sponsored Business Content. If you find yourself copied on a mass email, look over the list of recipients before you hastily reply all.

Does everyone on the chain need the information? If not, consider directing your response just to the sender. Thanks to smartphones, eager emailers have come to expect near-instantaneous responses.

If you need a quick answer, Turk suggests using a different medium, such as a call or Slack. If you have an aha moment at midnight and want to get it all down, Turk recommends writing the email and then scheduling it to send in the morning.