What is advantage and disadvantage of voice mail?

Advantages -

Prospects struggle to tell people know directly but have no problem throwing away a mail piece.

Conversation rate of calls to sales, if using a good telesales script is about 7%.

See results instantly and if calls are monitored you can modify the script at parts where to telemarketer is losing the sale.

Disadvantages -

The only real disadvantages are,

1- if you don't have a chin for rejection you will hate telemarketing. Hire someone to do it for you.

2- Without a telesales script that systematically moves the prospect through a buying process you won't be very successful and may lose thousands of dollars.