025: How to Connect with Influencers with John Cocoran from Smart Business Revolution

How to Connect with Influencers

Welcome to episode 25 of the Food Blogger Pro podcast! This week, Bjork talks with John Cocoran from Smart Business Revolution about connecting with influencers.

Growing your blog can be tough - aside from all the cooking, photographing, and writing, you also have to figure out how to get your name out there. John Cocoran argues that connecting with influencers and growing your relationships with them can be one of the best ways to get your name out there.

So how do you do it? Listen in as John shares his personal experiences with networking, his best tips to meet influencers, and why you should rank peoples' importance from a business standpoint.

In this grounding interview, John shares:

• What an influencer is and why they are important to your business
• How providing content for others helped him grow his business
• Why you should give more than you get to grow relationships
• How to identify the people you should be getting in contact with
• Why you should be using lists in Twitter to keep track of your
• How you can use interviews to get to know people
• How to connect with people at conferences

Resources:

• Smart Business Revolution
• How to create a list in Twitter
• smartbusinessrevolution.com/quick-introductions
• Contactually
• foodbloggerpro.com/one

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