Preparing Voice Mail Messages:

Compose scripts (make up missing information, be creative) for the following three situations for which you would leave a voice mail message:

1. Upon returning from a meeting, you have a message on your phone from your real estate agent that says your bid on a house you wish to buy was rejected by the seller. When you call your agent to tell her you want to raise your initial offer by $2,000, you get her voice mail. What will you say in your voice mail message to her?

2. As an outside salesperson for industrial cleaning supplies, you call a client to see if you can come by his business to show him some new products. You had called him earlier in the week but did not hear back from him. You get the clients voice mail that indicates he is away from his desk. You are in the clients neighborhood now and would prefer to call on him today rather than some other time when you would have to drive back to his area. What will you say in your voice message?

3. . As human resources manager, you call a job applicant to tell her she has been selected to fill a job position as sales associate. You get a voice mail message saying that she is not at home right now. What will you say in your voice mail message?