Comments on: Using StumbleUpon To Connect With People In Your Niche

By: Fruitfulvine2

Fruitfulvine2 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:30:38 +0000

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By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:22:51 +0000

Hi Caroline - I've come in here from your StumbleRush course - incredibly useful stuff! Thanks! Robins last blog post..How A Lot Of Wind Changed My Plans

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By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:17:53 +0000

@Dominic, this is nothing – wait until my Stumble Upon course comes out! You can check it out at http://www.stumblerush.com

By: Dominic

Dominic — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:38:17 +0000

Caroline, thanks for this great guide. It must be one of the most useful I have read on getting to grips with SU.

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By: Warren Whitlock

Warren Whitlock — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:01:52 +0000

I’ve beem using SU for years, and just got back to it.

The best thing now is that the stumbler are very much from real people and a real community.

So many gurus write on “how to game” a system.. it’s obvious that you have provided a much better users guide

thanks

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By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:31:58 +0000

@Jimmy, that’s really a question for the StumbleUpon staff…

By: jimmy

jimmy — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:14:51 +0000

hiii
im new in SU and i need ur help… im trying to contact someone.. i tried to send her a message but it keeps on telling me that i dont have the permission to message this user!!!! y is that? and how can i send a msg to a stumbler in my area?
thx

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By: Internet Junkie

Internet Junkie — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:33:35 +0000

Thank you, this is just the information I was looking for! I have joined several social bookmarking websites but I don’t have a clue about how to use them. I think I really should spend my whole week-ends on them (I might just start with SU)

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By: deborah

deborah — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:15:55 +0000

Hi, Caroline,

I have a lot of admiration for you and your writing. Thank you for the enlightenment on SU. With so much to do, it would have taken me quite some time to figure all of that out on my own.

One question…I searched a channel using a niche phrase such as sausage making. I went to the profile of the person who suggested one of the websites that showed up. “Sausage making” was not in their tag cloud. Did I miss something?

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By: Mandy

Mandy — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:17:51 +0000

Thanks for this post Caroline,

I am fairly new to Stumble and hadn’t really worked it out yet so this was very helpful!

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By: jozzua

jozzua — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:49:55 +0000

Is this as much fun as the blogrush widget? I ’stumbled’ on this blog from blogrush. Now, if I rush to StumbleUpon, will I see new interesting blogs?

I’ve a feeling I just might. :)

By: Mark Dykeman

Mark Dykeman — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:09:57 +0000

Just found this StumbleUpon post – very cool and I’ve bookmarked it.

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:13:40 +0000

@turtie, yes I have written another post about this very topic:

http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com/blog/effective-networking-7-ways-to-connect-with-people-in-your-niche/

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By: Neena

Neena — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:54:57 +0000

Caroline,
Thank you for putting StumbleUpon into plain words that everyone can understand. And I had no idea about keyword based stumbling – what a useful tool.

By: turtie

turtie — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:12:14 +0000

this is a great article for new bloggers like myself!!! I always wondered what some good ways were to connect with people similar to myself, and now I have a great tool. Do you know of other methods that you’re willing to share?

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By: Desty

Desty — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:05:01 +0000

Excellent article. I’ve been looking for a “user’s guide” to stumble upon for networking, and this is the best one I’ve seen yet. Keep up the great work!

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By: LaurenMarie - Creative Curio

LaurenMarie - Creative Curio — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:34:33 +0000

Hi Caroline! “Stumbled” over here from ChrisG’s blog (when he mentioned your Twitter Guide). This is a great piece on how to use SU! I receive quite a bit of SU traffic and I haven’t really learned to make the most of it. Well you just made it clear to me. Thank you!

I really like the conversational way you write and with all this super informative content, I’m surprised you don’t have more readers! Well, consider 1 more subscribed to your feed. Looking forward to more awesome content!

By: lova of blogadollar

lova of blogadollar — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:56:46 +0000

Thanks for sharing SU tips with us. People everywhere say that they receive 1000s of visitors from SU. And you must not be far from the right way of using SU. Your post is well detailed and we can feel that you’ve been there and done that. Thanks for sharing your experience. You’re well on your way to gain more fans for your Blogging presence.

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By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:10:49 +0000

@Aaron, Glad you found it useful!

@Husker, I have never heard of husker before. Some niches are more active in Social media than others. I found the methods that I talk about here work very well for Internet marketing but when I tried the same thing for another niche I didn’t find many people at all. I guess they are simply not Stumble fans.

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Husker Football — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:35:50 +0000

Yup, these are great tips Caroline! My niche is pretty small, now I need to figure out how to get the right people to my website.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:46:22 +0000

Thanks for the help. I spent about a half hour going through your post to better acquaint myself with StubbleUpon. talk to you later.

Aaron

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By: Brice

Brice — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:42:48 +0000

Great tips Caro!

I often msg people with interesting stumbles too. It’s great to network.

Brice

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:13:11 +0000

@Tim, yes that’s right. Often I try to thank people for a stumble but I can’t as I do not have permission to send them a message. I’m not entirely sure why there is a 200 person friend restriction, it’s a little annoying really.

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:13:07 +0000

Sadly you use to be able to block messages from users (including send to’s) but I just checked my preferences and now the best you can do is untick the “Anyone can send you a message” option. With this option ticked any one who has “befriended” can send you send-to messages while unticked only people you befriended can send you such messages.

I guess as you said you only have 200 friends pick them carefully.

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:09:22 +0000

@Bridget, Thanks for the support, always nice to hear :-)

@Mitchell, Wow a new subscriber from BlogRush! Welcome to my blog, glad you found me!

@Scott, Yeah it took me a while too.

@Anvilius, You’re welcome.

@Nancy, Really, SU should put out some better documentation. But then, us bloggers wouldn’t have such good opportunities to write about it hehe.