When Is It Okay To Ask for a Favor? | Quick Tip Tuesday - 642
Build Your Tribe | Grow Your Business with Social Media
Brock Johnson
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🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's up? Hey, welcome to Build Your Tribe. Thanks for joining me. Today we're going to talk about something that I think a lot of us |
| 0:07.5 | struggle with. When is it appropriate to ask for a favor? |
| 0:10.7 | You know professionally speaking and |
| 0:13.2 | How do you know if you should charge someone or just offer something to an acquaintance or someone in your network because |
| 0:21.5 | It could be good for you in the long run or just because you're a nice person. All those things and more in this quick tip |
| 0:28.5 | Tuesday. All right, let's get right to it. |
| 0:33.9 | All right, to be completely |
| 0:36.3 | Transparent the reason why I'm doing this episode is because I had a personal experience today that kind of rub me the wrong way |
| 0:43.7 | Two things number one first I had somebody reach out who has reached out to me on numerous occasions and |
| 0:51.8 | And asked for favors favors to help promote a product or a book or a launch something that they're doing you know business-wise and |
| 1:02.4 | This is somebody who I like and I have often said yes |
| 1:07.2 | But I thought to myself we're kind of on the same playing field. Do you know what I mean? Like we're at the same level so to speak and |
| 1:15.0 | I've done this person a lot of favors |
| 1:17.8 | And I've never asked them for one |
| 1:19.8 | But I've said yes every time they've asked me for favor and |
| 1:24.6 | Today it just kind of bugged me. I'm like, you know what? |
| 1:27.6 | This is someone who asks and asks and you should just be aware of the fact that you've asked several times and |
| 1:35.2 | You've never reciprocated now have I asked them for a favor? Nope. I have not |
| 1:40.0 | But that's the difference. I think in the way I don't know some people operate and some people don't you know |
| 1:46.5 | I don't say yes. I don't give somebody a favor or do something for someone because I expect something in return |
| 1:53.3 | At least that's what I tell myself but you know again today. I'm thinking about the fact of I've given them so many favors |
| 1:59.7 | Yeah, the first couple times I don't expect anything in return and it's not that I expect something in return |
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