Having launched a company with no voice conversations with developers, everything strictly over skype chat, can empathize. Voice conversations can be time consu

Having launched a company with no voice conversations with developers, everything strictly over skype chat, can empathize. Voice conversations can be time consuming and not properly indexed for future use like email and chat typically is. That being said, it's a tough challenge to want to change other people. Some strategy I typically go with: If I feel that the person can digest it and you am in drivers seat (ie. lawyers, vendors) I typically say: "if you think it's necessary we can jump on a phone call but don't want to waste time here, and am looking for your thoughts on x,y,z" If it's someone that I am wanting something from and they are a high profile individual will go with: "I know you are extremely busy and last thing I want to do is take to much of it, what I was simply hoping for was a,b,c..." Some people though, will never be able to break out of voice conversations and if you really want to work with them you will need to sacrifice. And in some situations voice will bring you additional results you never thought of and will be happy you did so.