Want to hear a bad outgoing voicemail message?

So I was teaching a master class on increasing your professional image covering business cards, names, fonts, colors, logos as well as your physical and online presence and voice mails. I am not an expert on recording outgoing voice mails messages, but I do know what to avoid.

I had been away at conferences for a couple weeks and had just installed a new number. I am one of the lucky ones to acquire a google voice account. I left a test message, while my new number wasn’t public. And then when I did launch my number, I forgot about my outgoing voice mail message. When I returned, my sister mentioned something about my voice mail message, so I listened to it.

Take a listen, I laughed pretty hard. Do you hear anything strange or inappropriate? Bad outgoing message

Hop on the Meeting Maximizer. Did I really say that?

Sometimes using the examples of other people can be cumbersome; getting their permission and then trying to frame it positively and constructively. Lucky for me I have plenty of my own faults to draw from. This voicemail I recorded made me laugh, particularly if you know my background and values.

Recently, I re-branded from the Fun Specialist to the Meeting Maximizer. The Fun Specialist was both a name and a title which referred to me. The Meeting Maximizer is an entity, but not my title, but it could be referred to as the Meeting Maximizer. In my eyes, it is an entity. However, not everyone sees and hears the way I do.

If you listen to my innocent recording, someone could construe “hop on the Meeting Maximizer dot com” in poor form. I laugh as a write this. Please make sure to write out your message and then have two other detail-oriented people listen to it.

I am not sure how to get a more clear recording for use on google voice, but I will try again with my expensive condenser mic. Read other articles about your branding here.