Why it works
There is a powerful social pressure to repay a kindness or a favor received from someone else. When you provide value for free, the recipient feels obligated to grant you a small request in return.
Example
I put together this list of five industry events for you, no strings attached.
An illustration of the mechanism, not a template. Copied verbatim it stops being persuasion and starts being the pattern everyone else is already sending.
Is your sequence pulling this one?
Paste it in and find out which levers are working, which are missing, and which single zero is capping the whole message.