# Influencer prospecting Human Guide

## What This Is For
Use when the user wants to find creators, influencers, affiliates, or social accounts in a niche for outreach, partnerships, sponsorships, UGC, seeding, or competitive research. It gives the agent a clearer input/output frame for influencer prospecting: what context to ask for, what decisions to make, and what usable artifact to return.

Use this as a human-readable version of the Influencer prospecting agent skill. It is meant for marketers, operators, founders, and other non-coders who want the workflow without reading agent-specific implementation instructions.

## When To Use This
- Use this when you need a repeatable process for influencer prospecting.
- Use this when the task needs judgment, examples, constraints, or a clear output format rather than a one-off prompt.
- Use this when you want to hand an AI assistant enough context to produce a usable marketing artifact.

## When Not To Use This
- Do not use this when you only need a quick factual answer.
- Do not use this when the work depends on private data you cannot share with the assistant.
- Do not use this as a replacement for legal, compliance, financial, or medical review.

## What You Need Before Starting
- The goal or business outcome you want.
- The audience, customer segment, or market context.
- Any source material the assistant should respect, such as notes, briefs, examples, URLs, or brand guidance.
- Constraints such as tone, length, channel, deadline, region, or approval requirements.
- A clear definition of what a good final answer should look like.

## Step-By-Step Workflow
1. State the job clearly: "Use the Influencer prospecting guide to help me with..."
2. Add context: audience, goal, offer, channel, source material, and constraints.
3. Ask the assistant to identify missing inputs before producing the final output.
4. Have the assistant follow the skill-specific guidance below.
5. Review the result against the final checklist and ask for revisions where needed.

## Skill-Specific Guidance
- find influencers or creators in a niche
- build a UGC, affiliate, sponsorship, or seeding list
- find micro-influencers with strong engagement
- identify creators who already talk about a product category
- TikTok search users, popular creators, profile, profile videos, audience demographics
- Instagram search profiles, profile, posts, reels
- YouTube search and channel details
- Link-in-bio services: Linktree, Komi, Pillar, Linkbio, Linkme
- Amazon Shop and TikTok Shop showcase where relevant
- **Niche fit** — content clearly matches the category
- **Audience fit** — country/language/platform fit when public data supports it
- **Reach** — followers/subscribers and recent views

## Decision Points And Nuance
The original skill emphasizes: Overview, When to Use, Useful Sources, Scoring Framework, Output Format, Best Fits, Outreach Angles, CSV, Common Pitfalls.

Use these questions to steer the work:
- What is the intended audience or buyer?
- What source material must be preserved?
- What should the assistant optimize for: clarity, persuasion, accuracy, speed, creativity, or conversion?
- What examples represent the desired quality bar?
- What should the assistant avoid?

## Common Mistakes
- Do not equate large follower count with good fit.
- Do not scrape or expose private contact data. Use public links only.
- Do not hide uncertainty when profiles have limited public data.

## Copy-And-Paste Prompt
```text
Use the Influencer prospecting human guide.

My goal:
[Describe the business outcome]

Audience:
[Describe who this is for]

Context and source material:
[Paste notes, examples, links, or existing copy]

Constraints:
[Tone, length, channel, timeline, must-include items, must-avoid items]

Before producing the final output, ask me for any missing information that would materially improve the result.
```

## Final Checklist
- [ ] The output matches the original goal.
- [ ] The audience and context are reflected in the answer.
- [ ] Important constraints and source material were preserved.
- [ ] The assistant made the relevant decisions explicit.
- [ ] The final artifact is ready to use, review, or hand to the next person.

## Source
This guide was generated from the scrapecreators/social-media-research-skills skill entry for `influencer-prospecting`.

## Source Skill Notes
These notes preserve the nuance from the original skill. Use them as supporting reference when the workflow above feels too generic.

# Influencer Prospecting

## Overview

Build practical creator prospect lists from public social data. The goal is to find accounts that fit the niche, have enough reach, and show evidence of relevant content or audience fit.

## When to Use

Use this skill when the user asks to:

- find influencers or creators in a niche
- build a UGC, affiliate, sponsorship, or seeding list
- find micro-influencers with strong engagement
- identify creators who already talk about a product category
- export prospects as CSV

## Useful Sources

- TikTok search users, popular creators, profile, profile videos, audience demographics
- Instagram search profiles, profile, posts, reels
- YouTube search and channel details
- Link-in-bio services: Linktree, Komi, Pillar, Linkbio, Linkme
- Amazon Shop and TikTok Shop showcase where relevant

## Scoring Framework

Score each prospect 1-5 on:

- **Niche fit** — content clearly matches the category
- **Audience fit** — country/language/platform fit when public data supports it
- **Reach** — followers/subscribers and recent views
- **Engagement quality** — comments look real and relevant
- **Brand safety** — obvious controversy or mismatch risk
- **Contactability** — public links/email/contact path available

## Output Format

```markdown
# Influencer Prospect List: {niche}

| Creator | Platform | Followers | Recent views | Fit | Contact path | Notes |
|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---|

## Best Fits
1. ...

## Outreach Angles
- ...

## CSV
```csv
creator,platform,profile_url,followers,recent_views,fit_score,contact_path,notes
```
```

## Common Pitfalls

- Do not equate large follower count with good fit.
- Do not scrape or expose private contact data. Use public links only.
- Do not hide uncertainty when profiles have limited public data.