Hello dear readers of my personal Web site (all 3 or 4 of you lovely, lovely people)! I have a problem. My voicemail greeting – you know, the thing you hear when you call my phone and I don’t pick up – needs to be updated. I’ve had the same greeting for over three years. Here is what it says today:
“Hey, you’ve reached Colin’s iPhone please leave a message.”
I had a few reasons for setting my greeting to the above three years ago. First, I had a brand new first-generation iPhone (that lasted all three years) and I thought it’d be cool to say iPhone in the greeting. Second, I’m not fond of long greetings and so I tried to keep it short. I also worked my name in there.
But now I want something different. Something fresh. Something that is still short and to the point but perhaps slightly more memorable. Oh, and I don’t think it should include the word iPhone anymore.
Suggestions? Sound off in the comments. If I use your idea I’ll tweet it out and link you up in this post (if you care about that sorta thing).
Suggestion from my mom, via Twitter: “Yo, you know what to do.” – My mom is always classy.
There are two I’ve always gone back and forth on:
and
How about, “Hi, this is Colin. If you pronounce my last name correctly during your message, I might actually listen to it.”?
Okay, just kidding about that one (you do have people mispronounce it a lot, right?). I’ve never been great at answering machine messages. I do like both of Pat’s suggestions, and I think your mom’s is pretty good too.
Hi. Now YOU say something.
Hello. I’m Colin’s answering machine. What are you?
“E’llo.” “My name is Inigo Montonya.” “You killed my father.” “Leave your name and number, and prepare to die.”