Comments on: Do You Run Screaming (or Do You Make Money) When Someone Asks “Can I Pick Your Brain?” https://nicoleonthenet.com/50484/pick-your-brain/ Nicole Dean educates and empowers entrepreneurs to create kick ass businesses so they can live life with no regrets. Fri, 21 Sep 2018 18:31:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Nicole https://nicoleonthenet.com/50484/pick-your-brain/#comment-8295 Fri, 21 Sep 2018 18:31:48 +0000 https://nicoleonthenet.com/?p=50484#comment-8295 In reply to Steve.

Excellent point, Steve. All of the awesome people in this post do offer tons and tons of free value through their content. So step one is to refer people to that.

Beyond that, the “Can we have coffee every week while I pepper you with questions?” is the issue.

]]> By: Steve https://nicoleonthenet.com/50484/pick-your-brain/#comment-8291 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 22:24:50 +0000 https://nicoleonthenet.com/?p=50484#comment-8291 I guess I have a little different approach: give everyone a little bit of my time. I want to build a relationship with anyone who goes to the effort of reaching out to me. I don’t want to give the impression that I will only help those that pay me. In order to help everyone, I have quite a selection of short reports (mostly pdf) that I give away on the subjects of the person’s question. These have links in them to my (or others) products so some sales can be generated this way. When I don’t have a report that directly or closely addresses their question (doesn’t happen very often), I tell the person I’m working on that one – then I go create the report, send it to them with a personal “thank you” and add it to my arsenal. In my opinion, there’s nothing wrong with saying “I can’t answer your question right now, but I will email you my thoughts tomorrow” (or Wednesday, or whatever – it will be no longer than a couple of days). I want the person to know and feel they aren’t being brushed off. In addition, I can always refer them to one of my blog posts (which I’ve carefully categorized so they’re easy to find) where I try to focus on answering questions I’ve received over the years. I feel like you need to show people you care about them by giving them some time and attention – not by asking them to pay you first. But that’s just me.

]]> By: Kelly https://nicoleonthenet.com/50484/pick-your-brain/#comment-8252 Fri, 14 Sep 2018 23:06:15 +0000 https://nicoleonthenet.com/?p=50484#comment-8252 I spot the curve in so many stories. When new, people seem really open and interested in having those ‘pick your brain’ chats. As time goes by and expertise grows, the demand gets high and you have to start creating boundaries.

I love the different perspectives shared!

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