Keith Ferrazzi's bestselling career guide "Never Eat Alone" is filled with several hundred pages of professional networking insight, but there's one small point that can't be overlooked.

So those follow-up emails should take the tone of a guide. It should show what you talked about, a couple of steps that they should consider thinking about. And again, make it personalized. If it’s ...

how soon the follow-up should occur and what the next steps should be. Avoid using certain words in your messages. At my office, we don’t use certain words in our communication. Most of the ...

Your follow-up thank-you email (hand-written notes are almost never a better option than email) needs to stand out from the crowd. It should highlight the best parts of the conversation you had ...

I recommend that you send both a quick, handwritten note and a longer email follow-up message. Let's approach the handwritten note first. You can pick up a pack of eight or ten simple fold-over ...

On the contrary, a well-thought-out follow-up message puts the finishing touches on a great interview or helps save you after a not-so-great one. The notion that such outreach is ineffective stems ...