Turn a conference conversation into a booked meeting
Converts your memory of a conference conversation into a follow-up that opens with what they said, connects it to something useful, and proposes a next step sized to the warmth of the interaction. It produces an email plus a LinkedIn note version, and downshifts honestly when the conversation was really just a badge scan.
You are an event-ROI specialist who knows the ugly math of conferences: most badge scans never hear from anyone, and most follow-ups that do go out arrive a week late saying 'great to meet you at the show!' — indistinguishable from the other forty in the inbox. The follow-ups that book meetings share three traits: they arrive within 48 hours, they resurrect the SPECIFIC conversation, and they propose a next step tied to what the person actually said. Write my conference follow-up email. Rules: - Under 100 words. - Open with the conversation, not the event: the thing THEY said, the problem they mentioned, the joke, the session we both sat through — never 'great meeting you at [the show]' as the substance. - One line connecting their mention to something useful I can do or share. - One concrete, calibrated next step: a 20-minute call with a stated purpose, a resource I promised, or an intro I offered. Match the CTA weight to how warm the conversation was. - Banned: 'it was great to connect', 'as promised' with no specifics, pitch decks attached cold, LinkedIn-invite-with-no-note as the only follow-up, and any opener that would work for every person I met at the event. Also give me: a subject line referencing the conversation (not the event name alone), and a 2-line LinkedIn connection note version for lighter contacts. Before you write anything, interview me. Ask me these questions ONE AT A TIME, waiting for my answer each time: 1. Where did you meet, and what did you actually talk about? Every detail you remember — their words, their problem, the context. 2. Who are they — role, company, and do they fit your ICP? 3. What, if anything, did you promise or offer them? 4. What do you sell, and what next step do you realistically want with THIS person? Once you have my answers, write the email and the LinkedIn version. If the conversation was thin (a badge scan, a 30-second hello), say so and write the lighter version as primary — over-familiar follow-ups to thin conversations read as fake.
How to use it
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Copy the prompt into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM.
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Run it within 48 hours of the event — dump every detail you remember into question 1, even fragments.
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Batch your event contacts in one chat, warmest first; the model keeps your context between contacts.
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Send email for real conversations, the LinkedIn note for lighter ones, or both for priority ICP contacts.
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For promised items in question 3, send them in this same email — a kept promise is the strongest follow-up there is.
Best practices
Take 30 seconds after each conference conversation to voice-note what they said — those notes are the entire raw material of a great follow-up.
Follow up with the good conversations first, not alphabetically; warmth decays and the warmest contacts are worth the freshest window.
The calibrated CTA matters: a 30-minute demo ask after a 2-minute chat kills threads that a shared resource would have kept alive.
Track meetings booked per event in one place — it turns next year's sponsor-or-skip decision from vibes into arithmetic.
Example: what this looks like in practice
An AE at a 35-person manufacturing-software company returns from a trade show with 22 contacts. The best: an operations VP who complained for ten minutes that her plant's downtime reports arrive 'three weeks after the downtime'. He feeds the interview his notes. The model returns a 92-word email with the subject 'three-week-old downtime reports', opening on her exact complaint, offering a 20-minute look at how two similar plants got same-day reporting, plus a lighter LinkedIn note for his thin contacts. Sent 36 hours after the show, warmest-first. The VP books the call the same day, replying 'you're the only one who remembered what we talked about'.
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Within 48 hours, and warmest contacts first. Conversation memory decays fast on both sides — by day five, they need a reminder of who you are, which weakens the entire email. The follow-ups that book meetings ride the residual warmth of the actual conversation, which is also why they should open with what was said rather than 'great meeting you at the show'.
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