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What happens when I capture my first lead?

The answer, first

You tap the microphone, describe who you just met in ordinary sentences, and optionally photograph their card or the two of you. The fields fill themselves in, a follow-up is drafted from what you said, and a short review line flags anything that looks wrong. About sixty seconds end to end. Do the first one before the show, not at it.

Watch: How do I edit and send the follow-up in MeetDrop? (0:58)

What to say out loud

Talk the way you would to a colleague afterwards. "Met Sarah Chen, she runs operations at Redline Logistics, they are opening a second warehouse in March and their current system cannot handle two sites. Said to send her the pricing."

Full sentences work better than a list of keywords, and they are easier at a noisy booth. Say the email address out loud if you have it and no card — then photograph the card anyway, because the card wins on spelling.

What comes back, and what to check

1
The fields — name, company, email, role, interests — all editable. Check the email address. It is the one field that silently makes a lead worthless.
2
The draft email. Read the first one properly. If it does not sound like you, that is a wording setting, not something you have to live with.
3
The review line. It flags a mistyped domain, a promise you may not be able to keep, details that contradict each other. An empty list is the normal case.
4
Your decision. Send it, or leave it as a draft in Leads — see which settings control that.

Why the rehearsal matters

The first capture is the only cheap one. Everything you learn from it — that your pitch line is too long, that the goal you set produces an awkward ask, that you say your own company name differently out loud — costs nothing to fix before the show and is a show's worth of emails afterwards.

Describe an imaginary person. It works exactly the same.

Try it on yourself first. Describe yourself out loud on the demo and the follow-up is emailed to you.

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Last reviewed 20 September 2026 by the MeetDrop team.