Mon 24 Dec 2007
How To Stalk A Guru: Blog About Them - They May Be Watching
Posted by Antone Roundy under Brent Coppieters , Guru Stalking , Rich Schefren , Russell Brunson , Shawn Casey
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It only took me four days after I created this website and started “stalking” Russell Brunson to get a comment posted here by someone close to him. On day three, in my befriend their friends post, I mentioned Russell’s affiliate manager Brent Coppieters, and the next day, he posted a comment.
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Another example: I once noticed that Shawn Casey’s emails were getting flagged as spam by GMail. I took a look at them, figured out why, and tried to contact him through his help desk. When it appeared that my message was getting stopped by a gatekeeper, I posted about it in my blog instead. A few days later, I got an email from Shawn saying “you’re the man” and noting that they’d known they had a deliverability problem, but they hadn’t been able to figure out why it was happening.
Every smart business person these days is subscribed to a blog search through any of a number of search engines (Google blog search, Technorati, … I could list a million) for their company name, their name, their product names, etc. …or at least they do it as soon as they find out that such a thing is possible.
It’s easy, by the way — just get an RSS feed reader like NetNewsWire or FeedReader, go to your favorite blog search site and do your search, and find the subscribe button to subscribe to it. Then whenever someone posts something about you, good or bad, you’ll know about it, and will be able to respond quickly when necessary.
If you have a blog…is this even a question?…make sure it’s set up to ping all…or at least a bunch of…the services that track new blog posts. That will ensure that the blog search engines find out about your posts. I also make a point of subscribing to my own feeds in Google Reader to make sure that Google’s blog search knows about my feeds.
I don’t know whether Brent is watching for his own name or Russell’s (or both)…or whether somebody else let him know about this site (I’m guessing he’s watching himself, but you never know) — but the point is that that blog post brought me to the attention of a VIP very close to my primary target. And unless you’ve been hiding under a rock somewhere, you’ve heard by now about how important Rich Schefren says attention is these days.
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:33 pm
You are absolutely right about the guru’s watching. I’ve gotten several posts from some of the big boys simply by posting about them as well. I’ve found this to be a good way to boost the traffic numbers a bit since the guru’s will sometimes even link to your blog post from their site. Keep up the good work stalker.
March 22nd, 2008 at 8:49 pm
I’ve had a similar experience. It’s gotten me onto the playing field of some “Guru’s”.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:58 am
This is virally interesting in its own right. By talking stalking you might just find a guru in your stocking come Christmas.
But anyway, yeah, of recent note it has finally occurred to me that there is something to be said about who you hang out with on the Net marketing sector of cyberspace. Does that make any sense or is it just plain redundant? And maybe that should be “whom”?