To ask a rich friend a simple question. You are not trying to sell them something. Now, most poor people would find any number of reasons for not doing the above Exercise as it looks like work - and it could jeopardise their Welfare Payment. Others would say they would not like to impose on their friends. It certainly is not easy - otherwise there would not be so many adverts in the papers asking for Professional Telemarketers.
Friends are people who like to see their friends doing well.
If asked for advice on your approach to them, they might respond in any different way depending on their attitude. Then tell us if you want to be in a Small Family Business. Whereas the poor have already been defeated in Spirit. Wealthy simply means that one has a lot of money, assets etc and could exist for a certain period of time at the same socio-economic level if something went wrong.