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"5 REASONS YOU NEED TO USE VOICE MAIL!"
By Robert Blackman
Most small business owners today are using an answering machine, telephone, mail, answering service, receptionist -- or some combination of these -- to meet their communication needs. Each has its limitations. Here are just 5!
1) No more Answering Machines!
An answering machine doesn't conveniently save messages, offers little confidentiality, and gives callers a busy signal when the machine is in use. Messages can be garbled and the caller cannot reply, change, or delete the message being sent.
Moreover, an answering machine is often perceived by customers to mean "This is a small or part-time business," and they might wonder, "Can it really service my needs?" With our Voice Mail Network Voice Messaging, users follow easy, step-by-step voice prompts. Messages can be received, saved, and played at any time. Privacy is protected with pass codes. And you are assured that every call is answered, because our Message Boxes can handle multiple calls simultaneously. Callers benefit from this feature because they can leave a message on their first call.
2) Eliminate costly long distance phone bills!
Valuable time and money can be wasted with "non-business chatter" that sometimes occurs during a telephone conversation. Busy signals, "no answer" calls, and "phone tag" are also encountered when utilizing normal telephone service.
When using our Voice Mail Message Boxes, all incoming and outgoing messages get through, unnecessary conversation is discouraged, and the recipient doesn't need to be there to pick up the message. In addition, messages can be made, given, and answered all at the same time!!
3) Answering Service/receptionist.
With an answering service or receptionist, there is always the risk of a forgotten or inaccurate message, or that customers will not receive helpful, professional responses. With our Network Voice Messaging, messages are heard in the caller's own voice exactly as given.
4) Mail.
Creating mail is time-consuming for the writer; letters can get lost in paper shuffle and delayed in transit. And mail is not 100 percent confidential. With our Voice Mail, users can deliver local messages within seconds and remote (long distance) messages within hours. The message doesn't get lost, because it stays in our Voice Mail Message Box until played or discarded. In addition, users are assured of confidentiality, because only they know the pass code to access the message.
5) Returning multiple calls.
If you're in business for yourself you know how frustrating it can be to miss calls when your not in the office, or simply have three or four people call you while you are on the other line. And when you return their call they're not there! With our Voice Mail system you can now communicate with your customers or partners or downline who are also on our Voice Mail system with a push of a button.
Imagine, calling into your private Voice Mail Box, listening to your messages and returning their message at the same time! All with a simple push of a button!
Other Benefits of Voice Mail
- helps you practice efficient time management so you have more free time to build your business
- date and time stamp so you know when the message was received
- callers have the opportunity to review and edit their message to ensure their accuracy before hanging up.
- allows you the opportunity to send and retrieve information about your business without being tied down to your phone.
How To Use Fax-On-Demand & Voice Mail To Build Your Downline
Let's face it. Technology is changing the way you and I live. It is estimated that this year alone over 8,000 people a day started a business from their home -- technology played a BIG part in making this home based business expansion. How many times have you seen someone at a stop light using a cellular phone in their car? How about a lap-top in an airplane? Lately, the big craze has been over the Internet.
But, don't let all this "new" technology lead you astray. There are still two vital forms of "old" technology you must use today if you're planning on building a large and profitable MLM business -- Voice mail and Fax-On-Demand.
Why is Voice Mail so important in building your MLM business? Easy. You need to communicate effectively with your prospects, new recruits and established downline every month -- sometimes daily. With the "hustle bustle" of the 90's, where in most home both spouse work, the likelihood of talking "live" on the phone with anyone is a 25% chance at best. I chuckle now-a-days when I call someone back and the phone rings, and rings, and rings! They don't even have an answering machine! This tells me they don't know the importance of communicating in the 90's!
Just in case you're not aware of it, answering machines are passe'. Almost every Ma Bell network in the country has a computerized voice mail available for $7 to $20 a month. It's easy. When your phone rings 5 times and you don't pick up, it goes to the local Bell voice mail computer. Your voice pops up and your caller leaves a message. When you get home (or out of the shower) you simply pick up the phone and if it beeps at you twice or more, you have a call on voice mail.
This is simply and inexpensive for most small businesses to use. But, if you really want to build a large organization nationwide you need to be able to call a voice mail system, record your message, hit a button, and have that message sent to all of your downline at once!
Some voice mail systems have the capability to send your message to 1,000 other voice mail boxes with a push of a button! Now, if you have a important price change, recruiting tip, or ad deadline, you don't have to worry about mailing or calling your downline individually. Instead, get on your voice mail, make your 2 to 5 minute message, hit a button, and out goes your announcement!
MLM giants like Amway, Herbalife and others find this the most effective way to not only communicate from distributor to distributor, but from company officials to the top brass in the company. If you and your organization aren't on a voice mail system then you need to do so ASAP!
Why is a Fax-On-Demand service so important in building your MLM business? It saves you time and money. How? Imagine running your ad and having your prospects dial up RIGHT THEN and your 4 page sales letter and order form!
Just last Saturday night, I was thumbing through an issue of PC Computing magazine. I saw an item I was interested in and wanted to but it -- RIGHT THEN -- with my credit card. But, to the advertisers demise, there was not a Fax-On-Demand number on their ad. Four weeks later, I still haven't received their information -- although I've called them twice. Net result? I found the item I wanted in another catalog -- and they lost my business!
Unless you're ready to meet the demand of busy professionals like myself -- who shops at midnight on Saturday -- you aren't going to be getting the maximum amount from your advertising dollar.
In your MLM business, a Fax-On-Demand is an excellent tool in recruiting and training. Let's be realistic. How many times have you made a follow-up call to your prospect who you mailed information to and they claim "I never got it"?
I get at least 25% of those I talk to who say this. Instead of running down to the Post-Office again, I simply give them my Fax-On-Demand number and call them back in 10 minutes! Pretty neat, huh?
My top recruiters in my downline ALL use my 7 minute 24-hour voice presentation and Fax-On-Demand service to pre-qualify and screen their prospects -- and they do it with significant results!
One downline member of mine, recently told me that 7 out of 10 of the people who call our voice mail presentation and fax-on-demand call him back and ask him more questions! Brian lets "technology" do the screening and selling for him!
You'll also find that in order for your marketing materials to be to the point and full of hard-hitting sales copy, you won't be able to tell every detail about every single one of your products or service.
Instead of mailing every one of your prospects a 50-page photo-copied "book" of your opportunity, set up different Fax-On-Demand or Voice Mail boxes to describe individual products or services in DETAIL.
This way, when a prospects says to you, "Yea, I'm interested in your product, but before I buy it, I want to know EXACTLY what's in it first!." Instead of jabbering technical jargon over the phone, which you haven't a clue to what all these long words on the label mean anyway, let your Fax-On-Demand describe in 3 to 4 pages all your prospect wants to know!
You should be able to find an affordable Fax-On-Demand service for around $10 to $20 a month. Voice mail should also cost you around $10 to $20 a month. Your total cost should be around $30 to $50 a month.
When you consider the savings you get in printing, postage and long-distance charges, you'll find that a Voice-Mail and Fax-On-Demand service won't cost you $30 to $50 a month -- it will literally save you hundreds of dollars every month and 10 to 20 hours of your "irreplace-able time." The other benefit you'll receive is that you will look more organized when your prospects and downline members are able to get the information from you at a moments notice!
Remember, in order to maximize your efficiency of recruiting, training, education and motivating, both your prospects and your downline, you need to have both Voice Mail & Fax-On-Demand service. If you don't you'll find yourself playing "phone tag" and making "follow-up" mailings into the 21st century!
(By the way, the item I wanted to buy at Midnight on a Saturday was a $500 software package -- and the sad part is that the owner of that business doesn't even know how much a simple $30 monthly Fax-On-Demand service is costing him! If he lost my sale just imagine how many other sales he has lost! Don't make the same mistake this person did -- get your sales and training literature on a Fax-On-Demand today!!!)
Regardless of what anybody tells you, you need to have voice-mail & fax-on-demand service!
Robert Blackman is President of Diversified Enterprises Inc. A printing and Direct marketing company. He is also President of The Profit Network, a Voice Mail & Fax-On-Demand MLM company. Not only is Robert successfully making money in 7 different network marketing ventures, he also provides a discount printing, writing, designing and ad placement service to all his readers.
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