When I first started working for myself, networking was my stumbling block. I hated meeting and talking to strangers. By nature and nurture, I was a self-declared introvert. (I tend to take after my dad, who famously declared on a hiking trip in Denali National Park, “There are too many people here,” and stomped away.
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If you’re at an event—a conference, a seminar, a networking event, a cocktail hour, whatever—you’re hopefully meeting people you’ll want to stay in touch with, because they’re interesting, they’re potential business associates, clients, mentors, friends. In short they can help you or you can help them. And the way to stay in contact is by
At a networking event this week, a colleague thanked me for responding to his email. He added that he was glad that I hadn’t been too embarrassed to answer his email after a delay of several weeks—maybe even a month.
I repeated the wisdom someone else had given me: “It’s never too late to follow up.”
“Really?”
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