Making Money With VoiceMail

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Although this money-making is continuously being marketed as "a
way to make money with your answering machine", new technology
has actually rendered this idea obsolete.

With the proliferation of voice mail, fax-back service, and very
inexpensive computerized voice processing systems, the answering
machine, with its limited one-call-at-a-time capacity, is no
longer ideal for making money.

With advent of these new technology, the concept has also
expanded to a variety of processes which you can use to make
money.

PEOPLE MUST CALL

With answering machines, the only way you can make money is when
people call you up. Since an answering machine is hooked up to a
specific phone number, and since it does not advertise on its
own, you will have to establish ways to attract people to call
your phone number so that people can listen to the message
recorded on your answering machine.

THE MESSAGE IS THE KEY

The message recorded on your answering machine is the key to your
ability to make money.

The message can instruct people to send money for information
about any subject matter, or instruct callers to leave their name
and address so you can send them a sales brochure.

The information you have recorded on your machine should be
encouraging and convincing enough to motivate the caller to do
what you have instructed.

THE 1-MINUTE SPIEL

Think of your recording as a radio commercial. Since callers
have short attention span, used to hearing radio and TV spots
that are not more than 1 minute long, it it advisable that you
limit the length of your message to about 1 minute, 2 minutes
tops!

GETTING THE CALL & COLLECTING PAYMENT

Whatever it is you are selling, and by which you are using your
answering machine, your primary challenge will be in two areas:
(1) How you can advertise and make your telephone number known to
as many people as possible, and (2) How you are going to collect
payment for whatever it is you are selling.

SELLING THE INFO

One of the most popular topics sold on "answering machine
schemes" is information about how people can make money with
their answering machine.

This is a worn out and very unimaginative. More than likely,
your caller will feel insulted and not order whatever literature,
report or booklet you want them to order.

Remember, if you want to have a recorded sales message over the
telephone, use a voice mail service, which may cost you around $8
a month.