How Amazon and Laundry Almost Made Me Ghost You

Recently I received a nice email from someone who’s selling something. 
We’ve been in touch over LinkedIn.
It’s a SAAS product I’ve (sort of) expressed interest in.

He’s following up.
I read his email, he wants to arrange a video call.
I click on ‘reply’. 

Suddenly the door bell rings.
I go answer.
It’s Amazon delivery.
Yay. Nice. 

Ok, back at the desk.
I’m thirsty.
I get a glass of water.

Back at the desk.
Oops, the washing is still in the machine.
Take care of it.

I return to the desk.
There’s an email from a client that needs to be answered ASAP.
Then my kid walks in because he needs help with his math homework.
All’s good. 

Another day over.
Off to bed.

5 days later, I’m decluttering my inbox.
There’s a draft open.

It’s to that guy in Product Sales.
Oh shucks.
I’ve been meaning to get back to him.
Today, I did.
(In the meantime he checked up on me, and I’d missed that in the daily email flood as well).

There’s a lesson here for jobseekers and sales people:
Not everyone is ghosting you.
They’re just very, very distracted.

The fortune is in the follow up.

So, follow up.
Do it.