Haveo · How to follow up after meeting someone at a networking event
Subject lines for a follow-up email
Put the event in the subject line. "Good to meet you at the Leeds meetup" beats anything clever, because the only job of the subject is to stop them deleting an email from a name they half recognize.
Ten you can use
- Good to meet you at [event]
- Following up from [event]
- [Event] — the thing about [topic]
- From [event] on Thursday
- Nice to meet you — [your name] from [event]
- You mentioned [thing] at [event]
- Quick follow-up from [event]
- [Your name], we spoke at [event]
- About [specific thing] from Thursday
- Hello from the [event] coffee queue
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Why clever ones do worse
A subject line that hides what the email is makes the reader decide whether to spend attention on a mystery from an unfamiliar name.
Recognition is the whole job here. You are not competing for attention in a crowded inbox, you are answering "do I know this person?"
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Put your name in it if the address is unfamiliar
A personal email address with no name attached reads as a stranger. "[Your name], we spoke at [event]" solves it in the subject.
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Keep it under about eight words
Phones cut the rest, and the cut usually lands mid-phrase. The event name should survive the truncation, so put it early.
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Rehearse it before you walk in.
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