The reason so many of us blog and are on social media is to make contacts for our business. Yet so many of us have trouble following up after an initial contact. A colleague may tell us to connect with a person, and so we friend them or connect on LinkedIn, but then forget about the important part — following up with this person.
There are many reasons people don’t follow up:
Don’t have time
Don’t recognize the opportunity
Simply forgot
Don’t think it’s worth the time
Here are some ways follow-up can really help:
It keeps you in the forefront of your customer and potential customers’ minds.…
Writing a blog is both incredibly rewarding and extremely exhausting. The need to constantly produce content that adds value to a website is no easy feat. When you write a post that you know will resonate, and potentially blow people’s minds, it’s a great high. But when you are on your couch at 11:45pm trying to get a post out before you fall asleep sitting up, it’s a low low.
Moonshine
Two nights ago, I was woken up at 1:30am and again at 5:30am. The culprit? Water was leaking into my apartment, setting off my carbon monoxide detector and potentially taking years off my life with that horrible noise. Is there anything worse than an alarm going off in the middle of the night? Yes, there are millions of things, I’m aware. I do read the newspaper. But somehow, in the moment, an alarm going off in the middle of the night really rates with the worse possible thing to happen in a long time.