Comments on: I really want to call you back.

By: Jake McKee

Jake McKee — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 15:11:34 +0000

Yes! This is one of my biggest biz pet peeves. I try to speak slowly, and have found when I sound (in my own head) like I’m so slow it sounds like I’ve actually forgotten my own number, that’s probably just about the right speed for my voicemail listeners.

I swear, there are too many people that seem to be competing for the fastest time to completion for the sharing of the phone number. When I lived on the east coast, I swear it was a bigger underground sport than dog fighting.

Thanks for letting me share my irritations Sometimes it’s good to step away from the “insightful” and have a little fun.

By: Scott White

Scott White — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:03:41 +0000

Well we would never bash anyone on another companies blog (it’s unprofessional). We save that for our blog. But one thing I’ve learned in my decades of doing this is people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:08:29 +0000

I never claimed to love Huey Lewis. I just said we believe in him.

And thank you so much for your well-wishes. I can almost smell your sincerity.

By: Branding Agency

Branding Agency — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:46:37 +0000

Ah, Billy you’re a former employee of Brains on Fire. Now I get why you’re being so hostile. Well at least you have guts going out on your own. It’s not easy but it’s very rewarding.

Brand Identity Guru wishes you much success!

p.s. If you love Huey Lewis how can you not like Disco?

By: Branding Agency

Branding Agency — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:13:51 +0000

Wow, so mean spirited. Actually I’m semi retired so I have lots of free time. The fact that you don’t like the design of our website means nothing. You can’t please everyone that’s for sure.

I like to read other agency blogs, it’s fun and you can learn a few things but how I choose to use my time is really up to me.

p.s. the stick figures aren’t break dancing. That’s called Disco Dancing. And we like it.

But thanks for the comments. Now go be mean to someone else….

By: Billy

Billy — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:28:19 +0000

Aren’t you the owner of your own “branding agency,” Scott? Perhaps you should find less trivial things to do with YOUR time.

Certainly there are more insightful, meaningful and “disruptive” things you could be doing besides waiting patiently by your laptop for somebody else to say or write or post something “less trivial.”

You have never… ever (or at least in the past 2.5 years) said, written or posted anything insightful or meaningful or otherwise beneficial on this blog, and your own site — by the way — looks like the Purple freakin’ Cow crawled in, laid a big patty and then exploded on it. And breakdancing stick figures? Really? Operation? Really? Who’s being trivial?

I PROMISE that there are better things you could be doing with your time besides waiting patiently for somebody else to do something “less trivial.”

I tried reading your blog to see if maybe I have rushed to judgment on you, but that chick won’t shut the hell up long enough for me to be “enlightened” by your “me-me-me-bullcrap.”

Believe me, you have plenty of things you should be doing besides waiting patiently by you laptop.

By: JB

JB — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:08:44 +0000

Whoa, man. That guy who called about the job, but didn’t bother to leave a number- he doesn’t really want the job. His mom put him up to it.

By: Branding Agency

Branding Agency — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:17:34 +0000

Is this really a worthwhile post from the owner? Seems a little trivial to me. I was hoping for something insightful or disruptive…

I’ll wait patiently by my laptop.

By: Adam Landrum

Adam Landrum — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:03:38 +0000

My favorite message is the “call me back” message. No reason. No purpose. Just “call me back.” Why do you want me to call you back? Maybe I can take care of it before I call you back, or better yet, if I call you back and I get your voice mail, then I know what message to leave you and close the call loop. With out the reason of the call, the loop indefinitely remains open.

Great podcast on the subject: http://www.43folders.com/2005/11/09/43f-podcast-how-to-leave-a-voice-mail-message

By: Nobrainer

Nobrainer — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:23:46 +0000

I have to agree: always give your phone number twice. It’s rare that I manage to write down an entire number when I only hear it once.

It’s even better if you give it at both the beginning and start of the message.