Second Cup: How to ask for help
Before Breakfast
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🗓️ 24 December 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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People respond best to personal, specific requests
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Shannon Doherty, host of the new podcast, Let's Be Clear, with Shannon Doherty. |
| 0:06.2 | So in this podcast, I'm going to be talking about marriage, divorce, my family, my career. I'm also going to be talking a lot about cancer. The ups and the downs, |
| 0:19.1 | everything that I have learned from it. It's going to be a wild ride. So listen to Let's Be Clear with |
| 0:24.8 | Shannon Doherty on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you listen to |
| 0:29.4 | podcasts. |
| 0:31.4 | Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:37.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:40.0 | This is Laura. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Good morning. This is Laura. |
| 0:44.7 | Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. |
| 0:50.3 | Today's tip is how to ask for help in a way that people are more likely to say yes. |
| 0:54.0 | We all need people to help us out from time to time. Maybe you want a neighbor to water your plants while you're on vacation, |
| 0:58.0 | or you'd like a colleague to make an introduction. |
| 1:01.0 | Every time I have a book come out, I hope that the various other authors and influencers I know will |
| 1:06.3 | share my work with their audiences. |
| 1:09.1 | Of course, I get requests from other authors to share news of their books too. |
| 1:13.0 | And over time, I started to notice something. |
| 1:16.0 | Some of these requests were far more effective than others. |
| 1:20.0 | Some people clearly sent the same email to everyone. |
| 1:24.0 | And sometimes this mass emailing would even be acknowledged as such in the first sentence. |
| 1:29.0 | Sorry I don't have time to write you all individually, |
| 1:32.0 | but would you do this for me? |
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