Great info in this thread, tried the email approach to 12 top people in my IM niche just for 1 tip of advice to include in a presentation I was putting together and wanted to include their photo and link to blog site but didn't work all that well, so a video blog post is next to send them traffic as someone else suggested above! Not going to give up but its very hard when you're new to the scene to try to get noticed as such!