I’ve been doing LOTS of trainings in the previous couple of months. And getting numerous the identical kinds of questions.
They often sound like:
“How do I do know when a proper time to ask so-and-so?”
“How do I do know if that asking quantity is an excessive amount of?”
“That is what occurred through the ask. I haven’t heard again in weeks. Do you suppose I offended her?”
Maybe you may have requested a few of these your self.
They’re good questions. They usually’re motivated by a need to do proper.
However all of them have a typical denominator: solely the donor is aware of the reply.
So ASK!
“Ask With out Worry” isn’t nearly cash
The one manner you’ll actually know the solutions to those questions is to ask the opposite individual.
- For the timing query, I might not ask if it’s the fitting time. I’d simply ask for the appointment.
- For the quantity query in face-to-face asks (in-person or on Zoom), I at all times encourage individuals to contemplate asking politely larger than they’d anticipated. (There are methods to do that with out being a jerk. And please, don’t be a jerk.)
- For the “did I offend her” query, ask. Apply the wording that makes essentially the most sense to you. Take a look at out totally different phrases till you discover a couple that work.
Folks will let you know when you ask them
Considering and praying and strategizing are essential. However you may’t learn donors’ minds any greater than you may learn your greatest good friend’s thoughts. The excellent news is, these questions could be answered – and these relationships strengthened – by straight, politely asking.
Who do that you must ask this week?
