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Remember the people you actually meet.
Guides and essays on networking events, following up, and keeping track of who you met, where, and why it was worth talking.
How to ask for someone's contact without it being awkward.
How to ask for someone's number, email or LinkedIn at an event without it feeling awkward: give a reason, let them pick the channel, and ask near the end.
Popl vs Blinq vs HiHello vs Dap.
Popl, Blinq and HiHello compared with Dap: which digital business card fits teams, NFC hardware or a free plan, and when the real problem is remembering people.
How to exchange contact info at a networking event.
Five ways to exchange contact info at an event, from typing a number to tapping phones, what each one loses, and how to choose by what you need back.
What is the Dap app?
Dap is a networking app for in-person events: tap phones to swap profiles, and each connection is saved under the event where you met. Here's what it does today.
You met them. You won't remember them.
A name in your phone is not the conversation. After a networking event, what you needed was who they were, where you met, and why it mattered.
How to follow up after a networking event.
What to write after a networking event, with follow-up message examples. Speed matters less than one specific detail from the conversation.
A handle is not an introduction.
An Instagram handle, a QR code, or a digital card stores a username. It does not store the introduction you just had.
NFC, QR codes, or digital business cards?
NFC business cards vs QR codes vs digital business card apps, compared in a real room. What each does well, where each fails, and what matters more.
The tap is the easy part.
Tapping phones is the small part of meeting someone. The useful part is keeping that meeting attached to the event, and to the reason you talked.
How to network at a conference.
Conference networking tips that skip the elevator pitch: pick three people, stand where conversations start, leave well, and sort the day before you sleep.
The follow-up that gives you away.
Great to meet you is what you send when the specific thing from the night is already gone. The other person can tell.
Networking tips for introverts.
Introverts aren't worse at networking, just at volume. Arrive early, ask one good question, have an exit line, and win on the follow-up.
Remembering a name is the wrong skill.
You can get someone's name right and still lose them. The name was never the part that disappeared.
How to keep track of people you meet.
A simple system for keeping track of people you meet at events: three fields, saved the same night, filed under where you met.
The room is the folder.
You met them in a room, not in the abstract. A contact list files them under a letter and throws the room away.
What belongs on the page.
The page you hand someone should be dull: your name, what you do, and the links you mean. Not a pitch.
Don't log it in the room.
Opening the notes app mid-conversation means you've already left. The record should not require a second job.
Contacts is a junk drawer.
Your address book stores how to reach someone. It does not store why you would. The dentist and Tuesday should not share a list.
One page to hand someone.
Your name, what you do, and the links you mean. The app that swaps it with a tap is still on the way. The page is live now.