Excellent article, every internet marketing professional should read it.
I would like to ask you. How you find the blogs usually? I mean you are using blogs directory or anything else?

Thanks anyways for the great piece of content.

Hey John,

I’m glad you liked the post. I’ve tried different “lines” to open an email – quite unsuccessfully.

The one that worked best for me was quite stalker-ish. Something like “Hey X, I’ve read articles written by you on a,b,c,d,e,f sites. I’m following you on Twitter, I’ve subscribed to your updates on Facebook, so on and so forth.

Now that I’ve creeped you out, my name is Rehman and I would like to know what you think about…”

Please let me know how this works for you.

Great post, thats a fantastic framework for an outreach piece.

Personally, I have found taking a Psychological approach works. So looking at things like what particular words you use and how your reference things tends to have a major impact.

One of the major issues I have is how to open the email, do you have any tips?

Cheers,

John

Blogdash is quite popular as an outreach tool. Using it or not would depend upon your needs.

You’d use a tool like Blogdash for a product / service which appeals to a mass audience. If you’re looking at a specific niche (e.g. medical equipments), Blogdash wouldn’t work well.

Similarly, if you’re looking at an outreach that covers plenty of mediocre blogs (which can be good too), Blogdash would work.

If you’re looking at a high profile blog, I’d suggest getting your hands dirty and stalking the blogger yourself.

Hope this helps

Good post, thanks for sharing – hopefully more people pitching follow these steps!