It’s helpful to become familiar with a

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It’s helpful to become familiar with a contributor’s style, tone, and accomplishments before you send them a message. It’s also important to make sure that you have similar viewpoints to confirm that your values appear to align. This will give you fuel to think about how you can be helpful to them.

Here are some questions to ask yourself when researching contributors:

What commonalities do you share with the contributor?
What work have you done in the past that’s similar to their interest areas?
Do you personally like their writing or the topics they cover?
Would you be excited to work with them?
Would you feel comfortable associating your name with theirs?
These are by no means the only questions to ask yourself when azerbaijan phone number library a contributor, but they’re a starting point for collecting relevant information that’ll help make your outreach as genuine as possible.

Reach Out to a Small Handful of Contributors
Once you’ve learned enough about a few contributors you’d like to try connecting with, the next step is to… well… contact them!

Contacting Contributors and Forming Relationships (Stock Image)
The main message you want to get across is that you can provide real value to them.

Showing contributors how you can first help them is vastly more appealing than people reaching out to them for help—and sets the best possible tone for the relationship.

If you can provide value in your first outreach attempt (rather than asking for something immediately in return), you're much more likely to form a relationship with a contributor.
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One important consideration in all of this is to be genuine and sincere. As a recipient of dozens of outreach emails every day myself, I truly can’t stress this point enough. A (busy) contributor to your dream publication likely has many competing priorities, so taking time out of their day to reply to your email is something to be appreciated greatly.