{"id":3712,"date":"2018-06-21T20:59:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T03:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futuresharks.com\/?p=3712"},"modified":"2020-12-31T14:27:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T22:27:10","slug":"connecting-with-bloggers-in-your-industry-at-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futuresharks.com\/connecting-with-bloggers-in-your-industry-at-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting with Bloggers in your Industry at Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is about connecting ?<\/h1>\n

It’s nice to plug yourself into communities you and your business align with. Connecting with bloggers is a great way to reach established and engaged communities. These people are the reason you do what you do right? So you can spend time with vibrant people who you align with.<\/p>\n

Bloggers are community organizers, they provide value to a network of likeminded individuals through written content, videos, events, services, etc. Connecting with bloggers at scale can be a great way to find your community as an individual. It’s also a great way to connect with people who could benefit from your product or service and get earned media.<\/a><\/p>\n

This guide will show you methods you can use to increase your connection rate in four steps:<\/p>\n

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  1. Find blogs<\/li>\n
  2. Scrape Data<\/li>\n
  3. Get contact info<\/li>\n
  4. Turn them into buddies \u263a\ufe0f<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Some may tell you that using a method such as the one illustrated below is wrong. That you are spamming people. This is a valid argument that has merit, but Future Sharks has a different point of view. We love the communities we work in, and any chance we get to plug in to other likeminded communities we take.<\/p>\n

    Outside of hacking your way into lots of contact information relevant to your business, you are giving yourself the opportunity to connect with other like minded individuals and creators at an increased rate. This is about connecting not spamming!<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Step 1: Find blogs<\/h2>\n

    Feedspot is the best resource I have found for this that gives you blog names and domains in a list format. List formats are almost always easier to pull information from.
    \nThe easiest way to navigate the Feedspot blog (basically a database of RSS feeds) is through a google search. Feedspot is not the easiest to navigate on its own. \u00a0Typing something like this in google will search within Feedspot\u2019s blog database:<\/p>\n

    Site:blog.feedspot.com \u201ctarget key word\u201d<\/strong>
    \nLets use “TEA” as our keyword for an example. Type\u00a0Site:blog.feedspot.com \u201ctea\u201d into google and you will see these results.<\/p>\n

    We will use the first link: \u201cTop 100 Tea Blogs\u201d<\/p>\n

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    Step 2: Scrape Data<\/h2>\n

    This chrome extension<\/a>, will give you the ability to pull targeted information off the page. Lets walk through how to use it for Feedspot:<\/p>\n

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    1. Download the data miner chrome extension and create a free account.<\/li>\n
    2. Click on the extension while on the page you want to scrape and then click \u201ccreate new recipe\u201d<\/li>\n
    3. Select “Create new recipe”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Side note:<\/strong> You may have to watch a few tutorial videos to learn the script syntax. Luckily in this case all we need to grab is the website domain and Feedspot makes visible for us.<\/p>\n

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      Clean Data<\/h4>\n

      Once you get the data you will need to clean it up in excel or google sheets. We want all of them to look exactly like this: “website.com<\/a>”<\/p>\n

      No “www” or “https:\/\/” allowed. It will hurt the amount of emails we find.<\/p>\n

      You can do this with a excel\/google sheet function called \u201csplit text to columns\u201d found on the \u201cdata\u201d tab.<\/p>\n

      This function breaks up single columns into multiple using the syntax of your choice. You will need to play around with the characters you use for splitting text but here are two that cover 90% of websites:<\/p>\n