favors

If you can get a small favor from someone, they are more likely to grant you a bigger one.

We all need to ask for favors from time to time, and here are seven ways to make your request more likely to succeed.

When salespeople hope to close a deal, they may try doing favors for the client. In fact, scientists who study human behavior know that the opposite strategy can work: if you can get someone to do YOU a small favor, they are much more…

When someone thanks you for doing them a favor, there are any number of stock ways to respond. "No problem." "It was nothing." And, of course, "You're welcome." For some situations, though, there's a phrase that beats the common…