Bad Karma – Or, Why Thank-Yous Matter
In the last few months, I’ve been having all kinds of trouble securing interviews — and when I do land interviews, about half the time the person isn’t there at the appointed time. As I was thinking (read: ranting) about this, I realized that my troubles started about the same time that I stopped sending thank-you notes to my sources. I went through a particularly busy period and didn’t have the time to write out and send dozens of notes, and when things slowed down I didn’t bother picking the habit back up.
So: Are my difficulties with sources the result of bad thank-you card juju? All I know is that I’m picking up the thank-you habit again starting with my current articles. [lf]
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Apr 22, 2008 Personal yammerings, Sources
Bad juju? I always send a thank you email. I guess people could be out of joint if the one you want next time didn’t get a note last time…But still, I am skeptical of some big woo-woo universal chaos theory deal here. Sources can just be dopey, let’s face it. We think they should love the publicity and jump on the line, and they have a different agenda or think we are so lucky to get them or something.