I’ve added a little spice to the Guru-Stalker website this morning in honor of Russell Brunson. Watch the title bar of your browser…

Just about anyone who’s done big JVs will tell you that offline events (seminars/conferences) are the place to develop contacts with gurus, or even other internet marketers who haven’t achieved guru status. I imagine there are various reasons for this:

The personal contact enables:

…you to make more of an impression.
…you to develop a more concrete relationship.
…them [...]

In what I hope will be the first of a number of special offers I’ll make for people purchasing Russell Brunson’s products, I’m offering a free copy of List Mailer GT Pro with purchase of Russell Brunson’s “12 Month Internet Millionaire”. Click the link for more details on both List Mailer GT Pro and “12MIM”.

When the guru you’re stalking runs a contest (for example, when they launch a new product and the top performing JV partners get prizes), that’s a moment of opportunity. Pull out all the stops…or at least all the stops you can pull out ethically (don’t start spamming or anything), and do your best to win [...]

You may not be able to contact a guru directly if they’ve never heard of you. As discussed previously, one way to get them to hear of you is to be one of their top affiliates. Another, if they hang out in forums or other online communities, is to find out where they hang out [...]

A few days ago I mentioned that promoting a guru’s products can help you get in contact with them — and that’s particularly true if they start sending you big commission checks. Using their products can also help, partially because it’s easier to promote products that you use. But there are other reasons. Here are [...]

If you want to get in with a guru, you’ve got to be the kind of person they’d like to be in contact with.
There are at least a few gurus out there who are interested in helping others succeed, and will help without needing to profit from the deal themselves. But even with them, you [...]

That’s right — here in opposite world, you stalk a guru by not stalking them! Whee!
Okay, seriously. If you want to build a relationship, you don’t do it by being a creep. Don’t spend your two weeks vacation peeking through their windows and following 25 feet behind wherever they go. Don’t try to inject yourself [...]

When you’re trying to establish contact with a big name “guru”, sometimes it’s too big a leap to contact them directly. In such cases, your best strategy might be to develop contacts with people they know. Part of my strategy in stalking Russell Brunson will be to establish contact with his affiliate manager, Brent Coppieters.
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My first lesson in guru-stalking came from my target guru Russell Brunson’s own affiliate manager who taught that if you want to get in with Russell, one thing to do is promote his products. People who make a lot of sales for him are more likely to get his attention. I’m sure the same goes [...]