{"id":3401,"date":"2015-10-09T12:04:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T19:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2015-10-09T12:04:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T19:04:52","slug":"should-voicemail-be-eliminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/should-voicemail-be-eliminated\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Voicemail be Eliminated?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oct 9 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I much prefer that my business contacts e-mail me rather than leave a voicemail. That way I can scan their messages more quickly. In fact, if I call someone and get their voicemail, I rarely leave one; I usually jump into e-mail and send them a message.<\/p>\n<p>I am not alone. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3645710\/no-more-voicemail\">this article<\/a>, some companies are even turning off voicemail. The article goes on to list reasons not to use it.<\/p>\n<p>Now, all that said, I do approve of Unified voicemail, where the voicemail at least goes into your e-mail Inbox as a recorded attachment. That way once I listen and get a gist of the request, I can convert it to a task in my <a href=\"http:\/\/michaellinenberger.com\/1MTDvsMYN.html\">1MTD or MYN system<\/a> and prioritize my action on it, and easily re-listen later when I need to take action.<\/p>\n<p>And I feel there are times it is just quicker to use a voicemail to describe some complex issues, and to express my tone of voice better.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Let me know in comments.<\/p>\n<p>Michael<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 9 2015 I much prefer that my business contacts e-mail me rather than leave a voicemail. That way I can scan their messages more quickly. In fact, if I call someone and get their voicemail, I rarely leave one; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/should-voicemail-be-eliminated\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3404,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions\/3404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaellinenberger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}