Dear Emily,
I wish I could say I don’t know what happened. That I followed up like I promised. That my CRM was working in perfect harmony with my intentions. That I wasn’t drowning in a sea of business cards, post-event exhaustion, and an inbox full of “Just circling back…” emails.
But here we are.
Somewhere between the expo floor and my messy lead spreadsheet, you slipped through the cracks. Maybe it was a misplaced note. Maybe it was my overconfidence in “Oh, I’ll remember to follow up.” Maybe it was the chaotic whirlwind of post-event catch-up.
Either way, I failed you, Emily. And for that, I’m truly sorry.
You deserved better. You deserved a well-timed, hyper-personalized, impressively relevant follow-up email that made you say, “Wow, this person really gets me.” Instead, you got… silence.
But if, by some miracle, you’re still out there, still curious, still willing to give me another shot—I swear, I’ve changed. My follow-ups are automated now. My lead management is on point. My past mistakes haunt me, and I refuse to make them again.
Please, I can fix this. Just give me one more chance.
Trying to be better,
Mark