Why it works
Small requests feel less threatening and require very little mental effort to answer. By starting with something easy, you lower the barrier to entry for a more significant future commitment.
Example
Would you be open to a quick, one-minute chat about your current goals for Q4?
An illustration of the mechanism, not a template. Copied verbatim it stops being persuasion and starts being the pattern everyone else is already sending.
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Paste it in and find out which levers are working, which are missing, and which single zero is capping the whole message.