tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542082112943474965.post495229269920558339..comments2014-08-19T00:27:02.486-05:00Comments on springboard 501: Say Thank You or Lose an Important Contactkevin fullertonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16643279406108099428noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542082112943474965.post-6712677504964742702008-07-08T20:17:00.000-05:002008-07-08T20:17:00.000-05:00Hi Kevin,I've had similar experiences...and it mak...Hi Kevin,<BR/>I've had similar experiences...and it makes me furious. <BR/>I may never forget the young woman who sent me a business proposal for a magazine. It was an ambitious plan. But the truth was that it was too ambitious. She had set her sights too high. Her projected costs were outrageous.<BR/>So I spent NEARLY AN ENTIRE WORKING DAY redoing her numbers, getting her some contacts for services, etc.<BR/>I did this for free because she was a college kid about to graduate and borrow money for her launch.<BR/>And she never sent me so much as a simple thank you. (As you would guess, with such a lack of business or social skills, she never did get that magazine started.)<BR/>But as crazy as that made me, the worst has to be when I agree to help someone (again, usually a college kid) meet one of my business contacts. I make the introductions, grease the skids a bit, and then sit back. But at least a half-dozen times in the past few years I've made the follow-up call to one of those contacts to ask "What did you think of that kid?" only to find that the kid had never bothered to call.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07278569290198583553noreply@blogger.com