She hand-wrote him a thank you note after their meeting, expressing her gratitude for his time. Graef tells CNBC Make It that he was taken by the gesture, noting that "nobody ever does this anymore." ...

She earned between $150 to $200 per post, about once or twice a month, she says, for a few years after college. Sending a handwritten thank you note is "a lost art," Graef says, but she was taught ...