This is the 21st blog post in a series taken from my book ‘Networking tips for busy female professionals’. Each week, we will take a tip from the book and publish it in a blog post.
After you have met someone, use their business card to jot down some notes about them.
For example, you may want to write down if they are happy to receive any e-mail marketing from you, or whether they are on LinkedIn and happy to connect with you.
After a networking event, where you may have met up to 30 people, it’s very hard to recall every single person or conversation that you had a week later.
Some ideas for what you can write down about them:
- What they were wearing (if particularly memorable)
- Personal details about them, children? hobbies? mutual connections?
- Details about their company
Action Point:
- Next time you are out networking write some details about each person you meet on their business card. Remember to capture these details on your relationship management system.
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One Comment
I can see a slight difficulty with this – so many business cards are now printed on both sides that there’s not much room for writing extra information. I’m also noticing a lot more businesses using black as the background colour for their cards…
I would suggest using the small notebook and pen as suggested in Tip 1 for making notes.