When you log-in into your StumbleUpon account, the very first thing you would see is the StumbleUpon dashboard. From the dashboard, normally you will like click some articles or blog post appear at the What’s New section. This represent the most recent stumbles by the people whom you followed.
If you received some message sent to you, you will get notified from StumbleUpon toolbar. But this next tools, that exist as a StumbleUpon feature happen to the #1 mostly over looked featured. This tool if used properly can be used as precision tool to identify potential highly interested friends or profiles.
So what is the most important StumbleUpon feature that mostly overlooked.
Have you notice small blue box at the top right corner of StumbleUpon that display three button, message (envelope), most recent visitors to your profile (human icon) and StumbleUpon blog (newspaper).
In this example I would like to bring your attention to the human icon. From this snapshot, I have about 100 recent profile visitors to my StumbleUpon profile.
If you click at the human icon, you will be shown all the last visitors to your profile. From the last visitors to your profile, you’ll notice that:
- Some of them is your friends,
- Some of them is your subscribers, and
- Some of them is actually, a new visitors.
Although all are important but the most important one will be those who are actually a new visitors. For example in my cases, when I click the link (from the human icon), StumbleUpon display the latest visitor to my profile.
So what and how should you treat this new visitor to your profiles?
I had recently write a post about how should your treat your friend on StumbleUpon. The treatment for the first time visitors is no different than your existence friend.
- Send a thank you note. I once visited an interesting profile just for a channel surfing. Soon after that I received a message from the profile owner, a thank you note. By now, I already add her into my friend list.
- Stumble some of their stumbles. If you find some of their stumbles, stumble some of their stumble. It will add some stumbles to your existing stumbles for the very list.
- Give some review to their profile. Yes, generously give some review if you find their profiles in interesting and so does their stumbles.
- Visit their blog, put some comment and sent compliment message. If they have a blog, visit their blog and leave some comment. After you have done that, sent a compliment message.
- Add or accept them as friend. If they response positively to all of the above then it time to add them as your friend if they haven’t put a friend request yet.
So that is how you turn a channel surfer into your friend and potential customer using this mostly overlooked blue box.
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