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How does StumbleUpon help me?

StumleUponUnlike other social media/networking sites such as Digg, I do get traffic from users clicking on links to my content at StumbleUpon.
Muhammad Saleem at Pronet Advertsing may have explained why.

Both Digg and Netscape send almost zero traffic until you get promoted to the sites’ homepages……On the contrary, you only need 3-4 thumbs of approval from Stumblers before a decent number of visitors start coming in to your site. The more ‘likes’ (thumbs up, or votes) you get, the more traffic you will get.

People often discount StumbleUpon because the traffic spikes aren’t as sudden and as huge as those resulting from Digg. While it’s true that the spikes aren’t as huge, if you look at the total traffic trends over longer stretches (i.e. a week or two) you will see that the visitor count equals out.

But I’m stupid. I can’t really figure out how I would use StumbleUpon to network with members who would cite my content and me theirs. The people who cite my posts on the blogosphere, in effect promoting me by word of mouth, are lawyers, marketing & PR professionals, journalists, students, and the like.

Would it be possible to network with folks like this at StumbleUpon? If so, please tell me what I am missing. If I am missing how StumbleUpon works, let me know that as well.

I’d like to know and so would the lawyers and legal marketing professionals that I advise.

  • http://www.cerebralpalsylawblog.com Dave Austin

    I don’t use Stumbleupon for any networking, but I do use it to find new material to possibly blog about. I do just stumble a few times a week to see what comes up. I find it can be somewhat random, but still useful.

  • http://www.ipadrblog.com Vickie Pynchon

    Heaven forbid that “Stumble Upon” should ever become a marketplace for any of us to promote ourselves.
    What can Stumble Upon do for YOU, Kevin?
    As we used to say in college — “check THIS OUT, man” — http://www.wefeelfine.org/.
    What THAT does for me when I’m in the middle of writing the ‘about us’ text for the new IP ADR Website (booorrrrrrr-innnnnnggggggggggggggg):
    1. It astounds me in a way I haven’t been astonished for awhile in or out of an ordinary business day.
    2. It gives me hope for mankind that we still occasionally turn our creative and intellectual powers over to creating something profound and beautiful pretty much for its own sake — here, by creating a web site that takes the world’s “feeling” pulse minute by minute.
    3. It connects me in this weird virtual reality way to three hundred million people who are RIGHT NOW sitting at their computers telling the world they are feeling lonely, happy, sad, “much better,” angry, ashamed, culpable, inadequate, etc., etc., etc.
    4. It creates another window in my office that I can gaze out of when I’m stuck for a word or phrase or even a bare idea — this window giving way to a world populated by multi-colored dots of feeling and wavering mountains of data (really, it’s a visually stunning site while maintaining its playful feel).
    5. It makes me think that I may have already unknowingly achieved that which I believed heaven would be when I was ten or eleven years old — a place where all questions were answered and everything was understood.
    6. It makes me feel GUILTY THAT I’M NOT GETTING THE “ABOUT US” WORDING WRITTEN.
    All work and no play, Kevin . . . etc. etc. etc.
    Back to work.
    Cheers,
    Vickie