7. Boosted Sales
Yes, you can boost sales when your relationship with an influencer is intact and strong. Influencers can link to your sales page and recommend what you sell on your blog. They can, of course, relate products on your blog to that on other influencers' blogs and, thus, recommend your product or service to their friends.
Along the line, the particular influencer you are connected with can link people to your product pages, recommend your product or service to his own followers, and even promote what you sell on his own successful blog.
8. SEO Enhancement
This is a very vital aspect of it all, though it's not the only thing to focus upon. As you know, SEO is important for your blog and connecting to an influencer can help you improve your SEO a lot.
As you continue building a solid relationship with influencers, you may ask them any time to help you review or assess a post for you by giving a link to that post. And they will do that for you in due time. You may later get a link from them back to your blog which will do your ranking a lot of good.
Google and other major search engines will improve your Page-Rank in search results when you receive links back to your blog from such authority bloggers. It gives search engines a lot of clues that your blog is offering high-quality content and is worth visiting for readers.
9. Professional advice and mentoring
As said earlier, building a strong bond with an influencer will certainly open a myriad of opportunities for you. That is very sure. Once you're doing it with generosity, helping and promoting top bloggers without expecting anything in return, you will successfully land in a mentoring relationship with them.
They will notice you and get to know you more and more. As you continue being generous and helpful to them, they may feature you on their blogs. Imagine getting featured on authority blogs! Imagine getting mentions in posts published by top bloggers!
Thus, be sure of this that reaching out to an influencer is worth the time and energy.