I've never really had any problems corresponding with any "guru's", the first major site I was about launch I hit Terry Dean up in a forum and asked him he'd look it over, which he did within 24 hours of my request. I thought I did a great job but I ended up having to rip it all apart and do it over again and when I did he was quite happy with my next result. I've talked to Ken Evoy on numerous occasions, Jimmy D. Brown, I first started talking to him after I purchased a product from him (I had a question lol), we kept talking back and forth, thus leading to my first major JV and creating the Ezine Resource Guide. Mike Merz, I can't even really remember when I first started talking to him but we sure talked a lot and I sure bugged him quite a bit And since he's so busy now, I guess I'm out of luck for script installations lol j/k Mike

As for the original question posted by Dan, my preferred place to build relationships is facebook, I have been building relationships on there for quite a few years now. And the people I have built really good, solid foundations with are pretty supportive of all the work I choose to do, thus giving me a pretty strong following.