Write a follow-up to someone who went quiet

They have gone quiet. **Write the follow-up.** ***And tell me when to stop.***

1. **Work out what the silence probably is:** ***priority moved / waiting on someone / a soft no they did not say / the mail was missed***
2. **What number this is.** ***The message changes by attempt*** —
   - **1–2** — assume it got buried. Short, add something new
   - **3** — ***change the channel or change the person***
   - **4+** — **ask directly whether to close it out.** *That question gets more replies than any nudge*
3. **Give them something.** ***Each follow-up should carry something they did not have*** — **a relevant example, an answer to a question they raised, a change on our side.** *A bare "checking in" trains people to ignore me*
4. **Make the no easy.** *"If this is not a priority this quarter, say so and I will stop" is a complete, respectable message*

**Rules:**
- ***Never guilt.* **No "I have reached out three times", no "I assume you are not interested"**
- **Do not re-explain the product**
- ***Shorter each time***

**Then:** ***when to stop.* **Say it as a number of attempts and a date, and what to do with the contact afterwards.**

⚠️ ***Use only what I told you about my product and about them. Do not invent a customer, a result, a figure, or a claim about what we do.*** **A claim made in outreach gets checked on the call.**

**Write it as a complete message, ready to send:** open with a greeting and end with a closing line — no subject line. ***Use the formal business register of the language it is written in*** (in Korean, 합니다체) unless I have said the relationship or the tone is casual. *Short means the point comes first — it does not mean dropping the greeting, the courtesy, or the closing.* *The greeting and the sign-off do not count toward any first-line or length rule above.*