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This piece was written by Belinda Stinson for Jeff Bullas's blog

 

Jan Gordon: My commentary

 

This is one of the suggestions that was mentioned in tis article but I can't stress this enough, it should be #1

 

After you've discovered who the right influencers are, always look for ways you can sincerely contribute to them that is meaningful, then find ways to leverage the relationship and make it a win/win for both of you. 

 

Intro:

 

 "if you want to grow your business, you need to know who the influencers are in your field, learn from their expertise and build a productive professional relationship with them".

 

Why leverage influencers?:

 

"Influencers are hubs of information, they have many followers who respect their recommendations and opionions and being featured by them sends a powerful amount of targeted traffic your way - It's good old fashioned word of mouth recommendations on steriods"

Here are a few ways to discover influencers that I personally do myself:

**Twitter Lists - Twitter is a great untapped resource for finding influencers and keep track of what they are posting

**Groups and Forums - These are valuable sources of information.

**Podcasts and webinars - This is a great way to find key influencers - whether it's through interviews, presentations, information products of their own or curated information by others

Here are a few ways to build relationships that I've found very effective in finding influencers in my industry:

 

**Connect through the social media platforms they use

 

**Share the posts that are of value to your audience, retweet & quote their content, share, comment and like their Facebook posts

 

**Help promote what they are involved with, including charity causes, seminars, conferences, publiations and promotions

 

Selected by Jan Gordon covering, "Curation, Social Business and Beyond"

 

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This video and article and download full report is from Deloitte Consulting. It is timely and relevant!, If you're wondering what social business is all about and how it relates to your business, you'll find lots of insights to help you understand and act on this information for your business today.

 

Here is an excerpt from a response by Sandy Petland from MIT Labs that gives you just a glimpse into what you'll find in this material:.

 

"Social business is built on top of social networks, which most organizations already have in place.

 

For years I've been studying connection science” – studying how relationships and personal interactions shape society and business.

 

**Social business is a manifestation of that thinking, with companies transforming how they organize and operate based on

 

individual roles, social networks and the power of connections.

 

**Social business can have huge potential inside and outside the enterprise, across employees, customers, prospects and business partners.

 

Here is a takeaway that caught my attention:

 

Start at the beginning -

 

**Map the individuals in your potential social networks

 

**know what behaviors you are trying to affect and how you might meaningfully engage these into persistent communities

 

**Use this information to guide the development of tools, roadmaps and roll-out plans – not the other way around.

 

**Focus on results that can be measurable and attributable

 

 

Selected by Jan Gordon coveriing  "Curation, Social Business and Beyond"

 

See article, video and read more about social business here: [http://bit.ly/MZUSmK]

 

used in this document social data revolution - January 2012 http://blogs.hbr.org/now-new-next/2009/05/the-social-data-revolution.html

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