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What to do when it’s hard to get in touch with people during the holidays.

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Voicemail Hell during the holidays.

Hi, I’m Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Let’s talk about voicemail hell, of what is voicemail?

Hell, well, I am talking about trying to reach people during the holiday season.

It’s really, really tough people tend to turn off, sometime after Thanksgiving before New Years a huge portion of the population, even in their business, they turn off.

You can’t find them, you can’t track them down. Here’s my recommendation on how to go about handling that. The best way to handle that is just to realize it’s the truth and don’t get frustrated with it, you’re going to have to talk probably call more people, you’re going to have to talk to more people to get in touch with someone that can actually help you move ahead and business.

Whatever you’re trying to get accomplished. You just have to double up because you can’t do anything about that. I know I’m in and out, as I talked about before the brain fog that happens during the holidays is heavy.

You just have to be patient, work your way through it. Keep going and realize that it’s a factor, but it’s a temporary factor.

It’s a temporary factor that will come to an end sometime after New Years, people start waking up and then that’s when all the great explosions happen. All of my best business explosions happened during very specific times of the year.

And one of the times it’s right after New Year’s, that’s when people start saying yeah, yeah, yeah, let’s talk, let’s talk What’s that they got no more excuses, really, people. People get this far.

They’re like, just get me after the first sometime, you know, it’s a reality. You just have to deal with it.

When you do get someone on the phone, though, just say, Hey, thanks for your time. I know we’re in the middle of the holidays and everything. Sometimes you got to give them an out.

If you think that if it starts to feel like they’re not tracking with you say, Hey, how about I give you a call after the season sometime in early January.

We’ll touch base on this, I just wanted to just want to call on wish you happy holidays and hope you have a good one. And then just leave it, set it up for later set up meetings for later. If you’re getting voicemail, come up with a clever message to leave forum that’s easygoing and nice.

But just a way to touch base with people. Sometimes it’s just all you need to do is just touch base. Just toss it out there and say hi. And leave the rest behind.

Don’t worry about it. This is just how it happens.

It’s just a little pep talk not just for you, but for me. So I had to kind of say it, I have to hear it from myself so that I can keep going and keep. If you’re not making phone calls during this time of year, it’s a good thing to do.

It’s a good way to get in touch with people. Yeah, a lot of people still send holiday cards and Christmas cards and all the rest. And you can do that.

But having that personal touch that you actually took time to do makes a big difference, especially if they’re those people, either business-wise or otherwise, that you just haven’t talked to in a really long time.

This is a perfect excuse to contact them say hey, just saying hi and Merry Christmas and all that jazz. So hopefully that helps. It’s just a simple idea for tonight.

Go check out my book, 9 Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business. You can get a free copy for at least for now over at AmazonProofBook.com.

That’s all I’ve got for tonight, you have a good one.

Continue your fabulous holiday season and we’ll see you tomorrow night. In the meantime, get out there and let the magic happen.