Developing a Habit of Following Up

You don’t have to spend every waking moment immediately responding to the chime of your email, but when you do allow time for this task, make sure you respond to everyone. If you don’t have time to give a long reply, then at least respond with a brief note telling your contacts that you received their messages and reviewed them and will get back to them soon. Then make sure you follow up.

In a startup, you’re building relationships with vendors, customers, investors, professionals and other entrepreneurs. That little bit of effort of responding to messages will go a long way in helping you build and maintain relationships.

(taken from http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/271335)