Do you know how to use Influence Marketing to drive traffic to your blog, and increase your social ranking? Do you even know how to find your market leaders? Partnering with industry leaders has long been a successful marketing strategy - big brands have been marketing with sports figures and celebrities for decades. As online social influence continues to grow, so too does Influence Marketing. Search engine like Google factor social influence into your pagerank, and customers look to those they trust for product recommendation. The cool thing about Influence Marketing is that even as the smallest of small businesses, you can use it to gain reach and increase trust of your company. You just need to know how. In part one of this three part series on Influence Marketing, I’ll give you the top 3 methods of finding your market influencers.