Soiboi

Account Executive, EIAS/Compliance

Here's the thing I hate about Voicemails...

Is it just me when my favorite voicemail that I crafted last week sounds so great.... until I start cold calling & prospecting and then it's doo-doo.... Time to re-draft and refine it lol.

Is this just me, what do you think?

Am I crazy?

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SleuthstarSDR

Opinionated

Sales operations for SaaS Corp

Shorter VMs are always the best and sometimes sounding conversational works too so I would say don’t try to sound scripted sooo sometimes you gotta throw out the scripted VM

Soiboi

Politicker

Account Executive, EIAS/Compliance

I feel like I've always done conversational and tied it into the overall campaign messaging to loop it back in and in reverse, and for that reason I end up with the above hah... I think i'll try the short route for a while.

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Arsonist

Account Executive

Voicemails have to be specific to your prospect and that specific outreach in the moment, providing relevance - ensuring that if the prospect listens, there will be a good chance they call back. Bottom line is that you can't craft the perfect VM draft because it just simply doesn't exist. Leave a voicemail that is relevant in the moment, not templated, otherwise there won't be much success in the long term if you maintain that habit.

Soiboi

Politicker

Account Executive, EIAS/Compliance

Yeah, I agree 100%. Gotta feel it out and say what matters in that moment.

Smithy

Politicker

Director of Sales

Voicemails are a fickle thing and I think the key is to point them in the direction of something.

Good, relevant message and end with "as i didn't get you, I'll try you at X time tomorrow" or "as I didn't get you, I am going to drop you an email to get the conversation started"

CuriousFox

WR Officer

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I don't think you're crazy. I mean we all are a little since we ARE sales folks, but I digress.

I always greet with a strong value point, then end with I will also follow up via email. So they will also have my message in writing.

Blackwargreymon

Politicker

MDR

Voicemails have to be specific to your prospect and that specific outreach in the moment, providing relevance

Clashingsoulsspell

Politicker

ISR

Shorter VMs are always the best and sometimes sounding conversational works too so I would say don’t try to sound scripted sooo sometimes you gotta throw out the scripted VM

antiASKHOLE

Tycoon

Bravado's Resident Asshole

short VMs for the win

GetAHobby

Arsonist

RVP Sales

Has anyone had real success leaving a VM of any kind? I just always thought of them as talk time boosters.

Soiboi

Politicker

Account Executive, EIAS/Compliance

I think of them as a reminder to refer back to touchpoints in the past or in the future, like a call at X tomorrow. That being said, I've had some call backs in the last few weeks that went well from a VM.

Balloons4baboons

Opinionated

Account Executive

I was researching the company and read a blog post on their webpage. The content actually resonated with me and I mentioned that in my voicemail. They called back because they appreciated the fact I had read it and we had a good talk around that. Nothing came of it though.

So if by real you mean they called me back out of courtesy to tell me they weren't interested then yes.

wHaTyAgOtCoOkInG

Catalyst

Solution Consultant

lol my VM never changes, at the end of the day its a touch point in the sequence

Beasthouse

Opinionated

Corporate trainer

i noticed i have used "sorry hope i didn't reach you on a quarantined line" for too long now hahaha not getting as many gigles anymore

MR.StretchISR

Politicker

ISR

Shorter VMs are always the best and sometimes sounding conversational works too so I would say don’t try to sound scripted sooo sometimes you gotta throw out the scripted VM

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Soiboi

Here's the thing I hate about Voicemails...

Am I crazy?

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