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• Leaving Good Voicemail Messages

  If I don't know you, leave more than your name and number. Leave me a brief indication of who you are and why I should call you back. Otherwise, I have to assume your reason for calling wasn't important enough to warrant a call back. Some tips, especially when there is no prior relationship: Let me know why you are calling and, if relevant, how you got my number. Let me know what action you expect from me (especially for us GTD folks). Are you going to call me back, or should I call you? Do you want me to reply to your e-mail? Leave your number at the beginning and end of the message. I shouldn't have to listen to the entire message to get the number to call you back. Keep it short. I got a 3+ minute voicemail recently about, I think, some opportunity a recruiter had. If he said I am a recruiter and I have a great opportunity in such-and-such you may be interested in, I may have called him back. Sometimes too much information is worse than not enough. These tips are especially important... Posted Jun 13 2006, 06:52 AM by Tim with | with no comments Filed under: Things that bother me, Productivity