3 Ways To Connect With People In Your Niche
Getting connections with people is an important part of the independent publisher’s day-to-day work. Before to connect with other people out there, is very important to reflect which are your brand and the niche you are collocated.
Blogging is a great way to do this, because give you the opportunities to choose your niche(marketing, technology, insurance, and so on), then to connect to other bloggers and share your content with them.
Thus, the following 3 ways are primarily about finding those people and connect with them.
1. Join To Facebook Group - Facebook allows you to find directly the people interested in your niche. The groups are so numerous that a way to find members in your niche is to check the wall posts and the discussion boards. Look at most active groups, check out the profile of each member, then add them as a friend. Why not, you can join to my Facebook Group at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=56335891527
2. Blog community - If you want to find particular blogs on a particular subject, then Blog Communities are ideal. In brief, they are web directories that archive thousand of blog.
By using their search box become easy to find other blogs in the same niche. Also, each blog has a community where the members are interest for that niche. There are different way to find blogs on any niche, here are three services to check:
- SEOmoz
- Problogger
- Metafilter
- Freelance Writing Jobs
- Blog Catalog
- Technorati
- Google Blog Search
3. Comment on blog - If you want to starting to connect with other blog, you can simply let a comment on other blog. Focusing on those blogs with more traffic and try to be the first few to leave a comment. Make your comment relevant and you’re likely to receive some visitors from others who visit the same niche. This method can bring to positive things: first you increase the traffic to your blog, second you can start a relationship with the blog author.
