Monday, February 04, 2008  Leaving Voice Messages
Conversationware makes a great point today about leaving
voicemail. Matt makes the point that if you think about it
before hand, write a few notes down, you can leave a message
that has some real impact. He follows up by saying "I hate it
when people leave a message that just says, Call me". Exactly,
it says "hey guess what, my time is more valuable than yours, so
why don't you waste more of your time ringing me back, trying to
find me, and then finding out what I wanted to talk to you about
in the first place. So, I have to agree with you there Matt.
Here are a few rules I picked up a while ago about leaving good
voicemail: - Start by saying who you are (no, I don't recognise
your voice!) - Tell me what the message is in relation to (need
to organise a meeting time) - Tell me what I am expected to do
(decide, ring someone, suggest) One of the things VoiceSage does
really well is to automatically detect whether you are about to
leave a message with a live per