Post-conference Follow-up Guide

Turn your post-INTA follow-up into a simple BD system

Download my short pdf guide to post conference follow-up, along with a tried and tested spreadsheet template designed to help for IP attorneys prioritize the right contacts, choose meaningful next steps, and keep conference conversations moving, without making follow-up feel like a heavy lift!

  • Feel clearer about which conference contacts are actually worth your time and attention.

  • Stop follow-up becoming a vague, guilt-inducing task that gets pushed behind client work.

  • Turn good conversations into practical next steps that keep relationships moving.

  • Build a simple system so you know who to contact, why it matters, and when to do it.

Conferences are brilliant for creating introductions. But let’s be honest: the bit after the conference is where most of start to fall down.

You come back with good intentions, a stack of names, a few genuinely promising conversations, and probably a nagging feeling that this year you're going to do something better with all of it.

Then the inbox hits. Client work takes over. The business cards sit there. You send a few “great to see you” emails. And unless there was an obvious live opportunity, a lot of the follow-up quietly fades away.

Unfortunately this has become all too normal. And it is a huge waste of the time, money, and energy you just spent.

This guide gives you a simple way to stop that happening. It is not a long theory document. It is a practical follow-up system for deciding who matters, what should happen next, and when you are actually going to do it.

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