When I started my business a few years back, a few of my closest friends and relatives were incredibly kind and supportive of my business, but most of my friends were not supportive - whether that's purchasing something (I sell something that's easily accessible by everyone), sharing my posts, or just words of encouragement. I understand that not everyone will support your business, which is fine with me, and am still friends with these people.Now that's I've achieved some level of success, with myself and my company featured in some big press, I've had people coming out of the woodworks asking for my help. I have friends who are messaging me asking to chat about starting their own business and wanting my advice. What they may not realize is that 1. this is a cost to me because it's a cost to my time 2. it's one sided in terms of benefits because I won't be getting much out of these conversations and 3. they've never done anything to support me. Again, they could have very easily supported my business by purchasing (it's super affordable and something everyone uses) or something as simple as messaging me with a positive note or sharing my business, but they didn't. It's tough when your supposed friend won't even do the bare minimum to support your business, but then in turn expects you to take the time to help them.My inner voice wants to just ask them if they've ever supported me in any way, and if not, why would I help them? Obviously, I want to handle this in a mature way that leaves us on a good note. I don't think ill of these friends, but simply don't have the time and patience for these conversations considering that they've never done anything to help me out.What's a good way to respond to these friends asking for help?tl;dr: friends that didn't previously support my business coming out of the woodwork asking for my advice now that I'm successful. Need a simple way of kindly communicating to them that I'm not interested without damaging the friendship. see hubwealthy.com/wealthy
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