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BURLINGTON, Mass. & AACHEN, Germany, Aug 28, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Nuance Communications Inc. today announced that its successful Dragon Voicemail-to-Text platform has been chosen by leading network operator, Deutsche Telekom, to enrich its existing Mobilbox Pro service branded “Spracherkennung,” translated to “Speech Recognition” in English, for its subscribers in Germany. By transcribing voicemail messages into easily accessible text messages, clearly arranged within the platform’s...

6 Tips to Leave the Perfect Sales Voicemail By Jeff Hoffman, December 7, 2016, 8:30 AM Although a seller might get a higher response rate from an email or another type of message, responses to voicemails are generally richer and demonstrate a greater level of interest. Of course, you won’t get any responses at all -- high quality or otherwise -- if you don’t leave a carefully planned and thoughtful voicemail. Read Full Post >>

How to Leave Sales Voicemails People Actually Want to Respond To By Mark Roberge Think back to the last several sales voicemails you listened to. Were they valuable? Did you learn anything that helped you? Or were the voicemails a carbon copy of the company's elevator pitch? Read Full Post >>

Salespeople have a love-hate relationship with voicemail, tilted heavily toward the negative. While it is convenient to have a machine reliably answer incoming calls at any hour of the day, leaving your messages with a cold, computer-driven device can be daunting. Particularly since many people hide behind their voicemail systems or are simply too busy to return even the calls they meant to return. Even worse, many companies forget to eliminate voicemail accounts when an employee leaves, so...

In most cases I will leave a brief message if it's with an existing account. With net new I will not leave a message. However I will send an email right after the call with the subject line "sorry I missed you".

Everything is NN right now for me. I like that, thanks Art! How much detail are you going into with that follow up email?

Are we leaving a message with every cold call that goes to voicemail? Or is this a quick way to tip them off into not taking your call next time?

@Matt Hutcheson that all depends whether it's existing or net new. Existing will be very detailed at times. Net new I like to keep in short and sweet. Maybe sending a link or attaching a document that the client maybe interested in. Basically you are sharing knowledge with them that may help them in their business