{"id":1547,"date":"2015-03-12T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2019-04-03T09:03:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T13:03:20","slug":"thoughtful-thursdays-voicemail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/thoughtful-thursdays-voicemail\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughtful Thursdays &#8211; Voicemail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s thought is concise and to the point.<\/p>\n<p>If a sales call is important enough to make in the first place, then it is important enough to leave a voice message.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, if you feel it is not worth leaving a message, ask yourself why are you making the call.<\/p>\n<p>If you make the call, be prepared to leave your message. Be concise and be sure leave a call to action, whether it is your action to call back or theirs to return your call.<\/p>\n<p>Not leaving a voicemail is an opportunity lost&nbsp;to make contact.<\/p>\n<p>Good selling,<br \/>\nRichard<\/p>\n<p>Have a question about sales? <a title=\"Contact Sakanashi and Associates Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sakanashiandassociates.com\/contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact me <\/a>and I will respond.<\/p>\n<p>Please share Thoughtful Thursdays posts with people you feel may find the topic interesting and helpful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s thought is concise and to the point. If a sales call is important enough to make in the first place, then it is important enough to leave a voice message. In other words, if&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/thoughtful-thursdays-voicemail\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5,8,3],"tags":[60,35,47,73],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales","category-sales-tips","category-selling-skills","category-thoughtful-thursdays","tag-sales-2","tag-sales-tips-2","tag-selling-skills-2","tag-thoughtful-thursdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3599,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/3599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sakanashiandassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}