{"id":24662,"date":"2012-12-30T00:03:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T14:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/?p=24662"},"modified":"2012-12-15T06:20:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:20:51","slug":"the-diamond-in-the-rough-system-for-gaining-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/the-diamond-in-the-rough-system-for-gaining-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diamond in the Rough System for Gaining Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"

This guest post is by Jonathan Goodman<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Content is still king, but influential relationships are queen. And we all know that women rule the world, so maybe we should start paying more attention to these queens.<\/p>\n

Bloggers should publish less and promote more. <\/p>\n

If you enjoy staying awake until 4am writing each night, and frantically trying to publish according to your over-zealous schedule, then continue doing what you\u2019re doing. My guess is that you\u2019re not paying enough attention to the queens though, and we all know how important it is to cherish, respect, and support the women in our lives.<\/p>\n

That said, there are a lot of queens in the world, and everybody seems to be trying to get attention from the same ones. So you send emails to industry influencers and tweet at top bloggers. One day you get a response back and feel like you\u2019ve made it to their inner circle.<\/p>\n

Then you hear crickets \u2026 followed by tumbleweed rolling by. (Which is odd because you don\u2019t live in the Wild West or in a cowboy movie. But I digress.)<\/p>\n

The Diamond in the Rough System of relationship-building<\/h2>\n

In every industry there are a select few who are in the spotlight. They receive hundreds of emails, tweets, Facebook messages and so on every day. Likely they don\u2019t answer their own mail and there isn\u2019t much you can offer them in terms of support.<\/p>\n

The Diamond in the Rough System is a way to get the influencers to want to approach you. It can be applied to any large social medium but I\u2019m going to stick to Twitter for this article.<\/p>\n

Twitter is a sea of shameless self-promotion. Much of it goes unnoticed. The feed is so cluttered and people are more interested in pumping their own information out than absorbing that of others. Add to that the unfortunate fact that what you\u2019re saying isn\u2019t unique\u2014there are probably people with bigger followings already saying it\u2014and you\u2019re facing an uphill battle.<\/p>\n

The Diamond in the Rough System will teach you how to find the Queens behind the scenes and court them. <\/p>\n

First, understand that there are a number of influential people in every industry:<\/p>\n