Steveer Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

When you make a request, you want the person you're asking to say yes.

Of course, you have to ask in the first place.

But some ways of asking work better than others.

My pal Bernice asked me to review the business book she's writing.

It's called From Mulch to Multinational.

It's about her plant store's phenomenal success.

She sent me a one-line email saying,

Stever, I love you. You're my BFF forever.

Now, please help me promote my book.

Sweet, but utterly ineffective.

Remember my episode on how to say an honest no?

No, well, that's honest.

Go check it out now.

There is a link in this episode's transcript.

I used my own lesson, and I told Bernice that I just didn't have time.

So she called in the big guns.

Europa, our former pop star turned secret economic overlord of the Eastern Block, put her assistant

Caitlin on the task. As everyone knows, it's the assistants who actually get things done.

Caitlin recent Bernice's request, and I said yes before I knew what hit me. When my head cleared, I rushed to

Caitlin and I asked her, how do you make a request that works so unbelievably well? Here is what she

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