It's useless to ask "how can I help you" unless they already know how you could help them. They can learn that if you first introduce yourself, tell about your

It's useless to ask "how can I help you" unless they already know how you could help them. They can learn that if you first introduce yourself, tell about your life and your business, etc. From Christoph's post: > After about an hour of covering topics ranging from places to see around the area to consulting gigs to building a SaaS application, I asked him one very simple question: "How can I help you?" The question works because before he made it to his interlocutor, he had already told his history. The interlocutor had enough information about him to know what to answer when he made the question.