Internet Business Marketing Ideas for Small Businesses

Everyone has voicemail. Most people have a voicemail message that contains contact info, hours of operation and instructions to leave a message.

Not a very convincing marketing message. For me, many times I want to talk to someone when I call. If I don’t get anyone, I won’t call back…ever.

Sometimes you will have calls from people around the world who are getting to work when you are locking the doors. Sometimes they will be people like me who are too busy during the day to remember to call someone until I get home at 6:00 pm.

No matter what the circumstances are, you need to grab these people with your voicemail marketing message.

Here are a couple sample ideas to use for your voicemail and make people more interested than they were before they called you.

For example, “Thank you for calling XYZ Clothing. We have a new pair of shoes that will revolutionize the shoe industry. These shoes are scheduled to debut January 2007. For more information about these shoes, or any other XYZ clothing product, please leave a message or call between the hours of 8 am and 5 pm.”

For example, “Thank you for calling XYZ Car Parts. Unfortunately we are not able to come to the phone right now, but to show you how sorry we are for not being able to answer the phone, we will give you 10% off your next purchase. Please come by and let us know you got our answering machine and we’ll give you 10% off instantly. Valid one time per customer. You can also leave us a message and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can.”

For example, “We are sorry you called XYZ Computer Company. Unfortunately we need sleep sometimes. Since we don’t allow our employees to go home, ever, they sleep in cots behind the store. Obviously they are all asleep and you’ll need to leave a message.“