An apology is a poor way to open a conversation or re-open a conversation, by the way, unless you clearly owe one. The high percentage response from a busy person who didn’t need an apology is either gracefully accepting it or not but either way moving to next email immediately.
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There’s a very real way where way where reciprocity works such that you have apologized, I have accepted, and great we’re even (and thus I don’t feel bad for ignoring the paragraph under the apology that you really cared about).
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You’ll note that almost nobody is so bad at professional conversations that they are memorable for this fact years later. Someone fitting that template exists in the world, certainly, but they almost certainly don’t worry about whether they stepped over a line in February 2015.
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But really: busy people are busy people. The overwhelmingly most common reason for non-response is not active disinterest or even passive disinterest; it is “didn’t organize affairs to have enough bandwidth to action the email.” Follow up more than feels comfortable. It works.
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Apparently someone taught sales reps that guilting people about non-response raises conversion rates to responses but hopefully you are better calibrated than to do that.
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I received an email like this once. It felt uncomfortably like "negging" so I didn't answer that email either.
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Maybe it’s also not a great way to start a conversation by accusing the other party to be annoyed :)
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