It can be easy to use your cell phone for business calls\u2014after all, it\u2019s right there in your pocket! However, there are a number of reasons you might want to reconsider that decision. Here are five practical reasons why you might want to stop using your personal cell phone for business calls.<\/p>\n
1. Screening Your Calls? You Might Miss Out on Opportunities 2. Your Voicemail Might Get Too Crowded And speaking of voicemail\u2026<\/p>\n 3. Your Personal Voicemail Message is Likely to be Different From Your Business One 4. It\u2019s Important to Know Who You\u2019re Talking To When You Answer 5. On Your Personal Phone You Can\u2019t Share Responsibility for the Line How do you make the most of the telephone at your personalized print business? We would love to see you join the conversation in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It can be easy to use your cell phone for business calls\u2014after all, it\u2019s right there in your pocket! However, there are a number of reasons you might want to reconsider that decision. Here are five practical reasons why you might want to stop using your personal cell phone for business calls. 1. Screening Your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-print-education","category-marketing","category-misc","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navitor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navitor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navitor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navitor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navitor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.navitor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14014,"href":"https:\/\/www.navitor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12587\/revisions\/14014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navitor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navitor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navitor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>If your cell phone is anything like ours, you probably get a lot of robocalls, and screening your calls can be a great way to avoid having to talk to a telemarketer. However, if your personal phone doubles as your business phone it also means that you\u2019re likely to miss a call from a customer. That runs the risk of losing sales or damaging customer relationships.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Another disadvantage to using your personal cell phone for personal and business calls is that your voicemail can get overcrowded. From telemarketer calls you haven\u2019t erased yet to messages from your kids, there are a wide variety of messages you might receive and keep for personal use. However, that overstuffed voicemail could also make it harder to answer messages from customers in a timely fashion.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Your voicemail message is a great chance to promote products, let customers know about upcoming holiday hours, and more. However, you could be missing out on that promotional opportunity if you\u2019re using your personal phone.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Think about the many different ways you can answer the phone. If you get a phone call from an unknown number, you might assume the person on the other end of the line is a telemarketer and your tone might reflect that. If that phone call is, instead, from a customer using a different phone than usual, that tone could start that conversation on the wrong foot.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>When your call volume gets heavy or when you\u2019re unable to take a call, it\u2019s nice to have another person take a call. However, when your customers use your personal phone number, it\u2019s much harder to hand the phone off if you\u2019re unable to take the call.<\/p>\n