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Since you are looking to connect with new people and new work, you might want to include your contact info in your public HN profile. You can crank the Medium

by tacon 10y ago

Since you are looking to connect with new people and new work, you might want to include your contact info in your public HN profile. You can crank the Medium post or Youtube video strategy to the max by targeting the people you want to meet. First make a list of all the most prominent and connected people in your field of interest, say "reverse engineering". FollowerWonk is one place to start that list, e.g.: https://moz.com/followerwonk/bio/?q=reverse%20engineering&q_type=all&frmin=0&frmax=0&flmin=0&flmax=0&stctmin=0&stctmax=0 https://moz.com/followerwonk/bio/?q=reverse%20engineering&q_... Now start a blog, or maybe a Youtube channel, where you post about reverse engineering topics. Approach a target for an interview about reverse engineering today, and how they and their company are approaching the issues, because you are passionate to learn everything about reverse engineering. Make the post all about them, with their picture, their bio, etc. Almost no one turns down such an offer. Your interview post becomes a line item on their resume, and they share the link to all their friends. Do ten of these. Ten leaders in reverse engineering now know your name and return your phone calls. Let it be known you are open to new opportunities, and they may direct you to their friends who are hiring, etc., etc. You end up with some of the top search results for current topics and issues in reverse engineering.

patrickgordon 10y ago
Not OP, but, interesting post, thanks for writing it out. Have you used these tactics yourself?
- tacon 10y ago
  Not yet, but the basic idea is laid out in the ebook by Robert Graham about cold calling for customer development. Here is his blog post about it: http://blog.asmartbear.com/cold-calling.html http://blog.asmartbear.com/cold-calling.html A careful listening to Mixergy interviews shows two or three of his guests have used the same strategy to get started. It is a very general technique, but it also has a significant level of effort, so you can't really do it in multiple niches at once. Thus, any one person won't have valid statistics about it. Someone should really write an entire book about this general approach. I think it would still work even if your targets knew what your goal was.

by tacon 10y ago

patrickgordon 10y ago

Not OP, but, interesting post, thanks for writing it out. Have you used these tactics yourself?

tacon 10y ago
Not yet, but the basic idea is laid out in the ebook by Robert Graham about cold calling for customer development. Here is his blog post about it: http://blog.asmartbear.com/cold-calling.html http://blog.asmartbear.com/cold-calling.html A careful listening to Mixergy interviews shows two or three of his guests have used the same strategy to get started. It is a very general technique, but it also has a significant level of effort, so you can't really do it in multiple niches at once. Thus, any one person won't have valid statistics about it. Someone should really write an entire book about this general approach. I think it would still work even if your targets knew what your goal was.