Well, introverts, you did it. But there’s one last thing you need to do.
When you get home, or first thing the next day, send everyone you met a message. It’s a very simple message:
“Hi _, it was nice to meet you tonight. Hope you have a great rest of the week.”
That can be it. Literally.
However, if you had talked about something specific, you mention it here. Or, if you had talked about getting together in the future, or about providing information, or answering a question, etc, mention it here.
“Hi Bob, it was nice to meet you tonight. Hope you have a great rest of the week. I promised to send you that article I found about the security leak, so here it is. I’d love to get your perspective on how you would handle it. Could we have a call next week?”
Just keeping conversations going. That’s all you’re doing.
You can do this networking thing. It’s daunting, yes. It’s easy to convince yourself it’s not important. It’s easy to convince yourself it’s dumb. It’s easy to convince yourself there are better ways to spend your time.
But deep down, you know better. Also, you can do it.
