Charles HudsonFounder and Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures

Are you doing enough to stay top of mind?

16 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube talk (Charles Hudson) about being memorable in professional and personal relationships. Hudson contrasts being forgotten versus being intentionally excluded, advises proactively staying "top of mind," and warns that waiting for a trigger (network signals) is often too late. He references tools like LinkedIn Sales Navigator as reactive tracking mechanisms.

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And I think the question is always, did the person forget about me, or did the person make the active decision not to include me? And I have found the number of people, on average, who will actively consider you and ignore you is fairly low. And when that happens, usually you shouldn't be surprised, because it's usually because something that happened in a previous working or personal relationship. I find oftentimes people just forget about you. And so every time this happens after that, like, momentary ooh, that hurt, I always think, what could I have done better to stay top of mind for that person? And it's interesting. We live in a world of harmonic inspector and LinkedIn sales navigator and all of these ways to track people, but if you wait for the trigger or the signal, you're probably too late.