Jan introduced you to PhoneTag (formerly Simulscribe). I’ve been testing it since that time. It changes the voicemail game. I’m on the phone constantly with managers, reps, and customers. I miss calls. I don’t like it to happen, but it does. Having to dial in to hear voicemails, sometimes long-winded ones, can be in itself rather time-consuming. Here’s how I solve it.
Sending out newsletters is a lot of fun. For the past week, I’ve been studying out of office and error messages that email systems generate when the newsletter cannot be delivered. Here’s one that really jumped out. “Thank you for your email. Please do not reply to this message. The person you are trying to
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the use of voicemail in our busy sales and business lives. And the verdict wasn’t all that positive. In short, I made the point that voicemail as we know it is more of a hindrance than a help when it comes to staying in touch and
The use of voicemail has become so pervasive these past few years that sometimes you wonder if you’ll ever talk to another human being again. Frustrating as it may be, over time you begin to accept it as the new norm. You expect to get voicemail and in a perverse sort of way may even
People under 25 rarely use email. it’s all about getting an immediate response and short, to the point communication. They find it in Instant Messaging on a PC or via SMS (“texting”) on their cellphone instead. But Instant Messaging (IM) is not just for kids and young adults. In fact, I think IM can be a pretty powerful tool for business to business sales professionals and small business owners as well. Here are the 10 reasons I love using Instant Messaging in Sales.
We previously introduced you to GrandCentral. For some of us, it’s become a great tool for consolidating incoming calls. But if you’re okay with putting up a few dollars each month, RingCentral takes things to a whole new level. This is a particularly powerful tool for small, local sales teams wanting to consolidate their calls
Many companies have an awful internal voicemail system. First, the system is standalone — meaning it’s not connected to your cellphone voicemail, which most outside salespeople check and rely on more than their office line. Secondly, several systems are very static — they don’t interrupt you to let you know you’ve got a new voicemail;
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