NEW YORK -- Imagine having William Shatner supply your outgoing voicemail message. Or maybe you'd prefer Morgan Freeman coolly telling callers to wait for the beep. Or perhaps having Betty White joke ...

SPRINGFIELD, N.H. (AP) — Jessie Levine smiles and shakes her head when she hears the outgoing voicemail message on her iPhone. "I sound young! And fast!" she marvels. "That person never, ever expected ...

"I was a little different." Ryan Seacrest reflects on riding his bike around the neighborhood growing up pretending to be an officer on "CHiPs," and hustling his neighbors for money by offering to ...

Want some rules for making your voicemails more effective? Here they are. Forget them at your own risk. If you would like to leave a long, rambling message with no apparent point, please hang up now.

Everyone is entitled to a vacation, but the timing of your summer holiday may be less than ideal for some of your clients and colleagues. Keep their needs in mind when preparing your out-of-office ...