Create a Personal FAQ for Friends Who Want Your Advice

If you're good at something and your friends know it, it can get boring—and time consuming—to answer the same question over and over again. Blogger Brett Kelly suggests creating a web page that answers the questions you get asked most.

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We think that's a pretty ingenious approach to helping people out with a minimum of impact on your valuable time. Of course, there will always be times when you'll want to help someone directly instead of pushing them off to a web site, but building a personal FAQ is still a smart idea. Your friends and family will probably appreciate it, too, since they might feel weird about bothering you during the dinner hour to help them solve a problem. This way, they don't have to.

How do you handle it when people come to you for advice? Do you have a personal FAQ, or some other clever way to help them out efficiently? Share your ideas and tips in the comments.