Welcome to the sixth day of “7 Days to StumbleUpon Supremacy”

Today is about how to Deepen Relationships With Your New Friends

You’re well on your way to becoming a StumbleUpon specialist.

Maybe you already got a traffic surge. Or built up an impressive network. Or made contact with an A-list blogger. Good for you.

And no doubt your work on this challenge has already brought some added visibility to the ‘Congenital Heart Defects Awareness’ effort - you are helping improve the life of a child with heart defects. Thank you for your support.

Today, we’ll begin taking your SU success to a higher level - by strengthening the relationship with members of your network, while expanding it further.

Here are a few things you can do to deeper your connection with SU friends:

- Introduce yourself with a personal note. Ask if you can help in any way. Offer your services and assistance with something. Reach out to them and make first contact. Your approach will pay rich dividends in a short while.

- Stumble their content. Visit their blogs and websites. If you find something you like, stumble it - and then write a review. They’ll be sure to thank you for the flood of traffic you unleash.

- Rate and review their picks. You can do this by visiting their blog and browsing through the links they’ve stumbled. How does this help? SU ranks users possibly based on their utility to the service. A stumbler who picks great websites that many other users enjoy should therefore rank higher. By giving your friend’s pick a ‘thumbs up’, you are boosting your friend’s authority within SU.

- Send them your top content to stumble. As a StumbleUpon user, you can send pages to specific friends, or even all of them. When you write or create something that you think all your friends will love, and stumble as their own discovery, send it to them. You’re helping them, while helping yourself indirectly.

Key tip: NEVER explicitly ask an SU user to vote up or stumble your content. It is considered bad form, and reflects poorly on you.

Over time, this kind of behavior will impress your friends - and they will begin to reciprocate. It won’t happen overnight, but gradually you will gain influence and recognition within SU, and this will translate into massive traffic from the network.

The “CHD Social Media Challenge” is a project to spread Congenital Heart Defects awareness. There are 4 mini-tutorials and 1 firesale making up the ‘challenge’. You can join in and help too - click here to see how.