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If you want to get more people to help you, try this

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If you want to get more people to help you, try this

Image source: Tara Moore / Getty. Original article written by Justin Pot for Zapier. Reprinted in Fast Company – November 22, 2021.

There’s a right way and a wrong way to get people on your side. Doing this to someone who’s actually trying to help only alienates a potential ally.

A dance instructor made me cry once. It was in the early 2010s. I built simple WordPress sites for small businesses in and around Boulder, Colorado. For around $650—a pretty low rate—I would set up a site and offer a two-hour tutorial on how to edit pages and generally run things. […]