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Cold Hard Fact #2: Networking works fastest when you connect with extremely well connected / well known players.

Your Big “Uh-Oh”: These people get tons of email every day and business proposals out the wazoo … so it’s &^$# hard to get their attention.

How To Fix This Profit-Sucking Problem

Do what smart fishermen/women/(people? c’mon!) do, and fish where the fish are hungriest … their blog.

As any blogger will tell you, comments are like sweet, sweet life blood for a blog. They build community, which builds subscribers, which builds traffic, which ends up in hart-stoppingly satisfying hell-yes-pass-GO-and-collect-$200-style profits.

And you can’t fake comments (nor should you). So bloggers depend on the kindness conversation of strangers.

So, when you’ve found the crazy cool blog of the person you’re trying to connect with, check in often and build some real conversations on their blog posts. They may not respond to an email from you, Mr./Ms. Unknown Quantity, but they will get the comment notification - and that gets their attention.

Making good conversation on their blogs = validating them as people = making them receptive.

Soon you’re not Mr./Ms. Unknown Quantity anymore … you’re Dr. You Make My Blog Awesome-r, and you’ve done some giving first, without asking for anything in return.

So when you do connect with El Honcho Blogo, (s)he will be hella receptive to what you want to say.

And the traffic you get from your comments won’t hurt, either.

(P.S. - Earn some points right now and comment below, you sexy reader, you.)