“Please call me.”
One of the great advantages of email and voicemail is that the sender can leave a short message with the reason for the call. Yet I seem to receive at least a half dozen email or voicemail messages every week with nothing more than “please call me” from both potential clients and other lawyers.
No matter who you are calling or writing to, respect their time. Give them a short message (a sentence will do) so they can assess the importance of the message and determine the best way to respond. Or hey, just call them, if the conversation should happen over the phone.
As for me, “please call me” messages go the absolute bottom of my to-do list (potential clients excepted, of course). I figure if it is important, the sender will try again with more information.
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Sam Glover has been writing about law practice technology, management, marketing, and other stuff on Lawyerist since 2007. He consults on appeals and motion practice in his solo practice. When he isn't blogging or lawyering, Sam drinks espresso and plays with fountain pens.
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My thoughts exactly. Or even worse, the ones that listen to the outgoing message, and the beep, and then hangup.
I don’t mind those so much anymore. Since I use PhoneTag to transcribe my voicemail, I can easily delete those. (Although it looks like Google Voice will shortly do the same thing for free.)