3. Giving up after the first email or message.
How many emails, texts, phone calls, Facebook messages, etc. do you receive each day? If you are anything like me, you are inundated with communication with people on a daily basis, and it can be overwhelming. I usually have 20 texts, 40 Facebook messages and 200 emails unread and unanswered at any given time. It’s not that I don’t care about the people who are contacting me, it’s just that I have this crazy thing called “life” pulling me from a million directions. Most of us would never get a single thing done, our children would go unfed, and we would never shower if we stopped to answer every message we received when our phone gave us the alert. Don’t assume that an unanswered message means that someone doesn’t want to meet for coffee or discuss the project you talked about when you met. More than likely it just means the message got buried in the black hole of communications. You don’t have to be a pest, but sending a follow-up message (or 10), when done respectfully, is key.
