AEE 315: 5 Steps to Leaving the Perfect Voicemail in English

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Do you know how to leave a great voicemail in English? Today you’ll get the 5 steps that you need to follow to leave a great voicemail. Listen to the sample role plays in today’s episode to hear what your message should sound like. Here are the steps: 1) Greeting: “Hi it’s Lindsay” or “Hey it’s Michelle” 2) Why are you calling: “I just wanted to talk with you about tomorrow’s meeting” or “I’m calling to catch up.” 3) What they should do next: “Would you get back to me when you can” or “Give me a call whenever you’re free” 4) Your phone number: “My number is 359-284-9856″ or “You can reach me at 617-593-0952 5) Say goodbye: “Hope you’re having a good day” or “Take care” or “Have a great one” Here are a few other tips: 1) Make sure they know how to get back to you 2) Don't ramble, don't go on and on, don't leave a long message, make it concise and tight and to the point 3) Do leave a message- don't call and hang up, it's better to leave a message with some grammar mistakes than it is to not leave a message and not connect with the person Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is an All-Ears English podcast episode 315, five steps to leaving the perfect
0:07.1	voicemail in English.
0:10.0	Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast where you'll finally get real native English
0:17.1	conversation and fluency for business and life. We believe in connection not perfection when it comes to learning English.
0:27.0	Now here are your hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl coming to you
0:36.7	from Boston and New York City, USA. In today's episode we will show you the exact steps that you need to follow to
0:50.2	record an awesome voicemail to connect with someone on the phone.
0:56.0	Hey Lindsay. Hey Michelle, how you doing today? I'm good. How are you doing today?
1:06.4	I'm good. How are you?
1:08.4	Glad to hear it. Very good, very good. Yeah, I'm loving the weather. I know we talk about that all the time but don't
1:13.9	people always when the weather is nice. I guess so and the weather's nice they do and
1:18.7	the weather effects are mood very much so it's a good topic but um but let's talk about a more interesting
1:24.3	topic today what are we talking about today Michelle okay a little more
1:29.2	interesting well I wanted to bring up something that we actually spoke about last week, and I kind of wanted to do a follow-up.
1:39.0	Good idea.
1:40.0	Yes.
1:41.0	What did we talk about last week?
1:42.0	So last week on episode 3 12, we actually spoke about how to record your voicemail message on your phone, right?
1:50.0	That's what people are going to hear when they call you and you're not there?
1:53.6	Yeah, we gave some really good kind of instructions on what to say, how to do that, and how to set that up.
1:58.9	Yeah, exactly. So I thought that today we could talk about leaving a voicemail because that's just as important, right?
2:07.0	Yeah, and it's really funny. I mean, I receive a lot of calls, you know, for some of my work, my businesses and it's funny because a lot of
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