Something Better Than "Let Me Know If You Have Any Questions" for Coaches

Look, I forget and also use that throw-away line too. But here are five WAY better things we can all ask instead (especially when we talk to prospects)

We had to answer questions as kids in class, and at the same time we weren’t very good at having the guts to ask questions of someone, either. I’m not sure we’ve gotten better at either, to be honest.

It happened to me this weekend while I was with my wife in a store.

“Can I help you with anything?” asked the employee who approached me.

“No thanks, we’re just looking.”

“O.K., just let me know if you have any questions.”

*eye roll*

I’m thinking, ‘of course I’m going to let you know if I have a question…in what world would someone with a question not ask that question to someone who could answer it?…like I’m going to wrestle with a question in a store, but decide to not get an answer?…even if you didn’t come up to me and announce that I could ask a question of you as an employee of the store, OF COURSE I’m going to still ask you a question!’

That’s what it’s like to be in my mind, most days. It’s not pretty. I’m very Larry David in some of my thoughts and observations about people (which, if I’m being honest, probably isn’t always a good thing).

Anyway…

I thought of all the edits and feedback we give to coaches who are clients we work with, or who are Honey Badger Recruiting subscribers, and a lot of them have to do with weak endings or unspecific calls to action. And I get it, those can be tough…you don’t want to sound bossy as you end a message, but on the other hand you get frustrated as a coach when there is no response, or - in the case of allowing yourself to give them more information about you, your program and your campus, they fail to ask a question.

To help with that, I’m giving you five waaaay better phrases to use at the end of your emails, letters, text messages and DM’s instead of saying, “let me know if you have any questions.”

Try these, and let me know what difference in responses you see from your recruits, Coach: