Dave Sherwin
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Online Network Marketing Expert
Dave Sherwin Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- online marketing, online network marketing, social marketing
- Best Sellers
- Lighthouse Marketing E-book, and Twitterpated, The Savvy Marketers Guide To Twitter
- Career Focus
- Entrepreneurialism
- Affiliation
- Escape The Matrix LLC
I have the Google #1 ranked blog in the "online network marketing" genre.
http://escapethematrix.net/blog
I am also the founder of:
http://socialmarketingblackbox.com
An online marketing service that provides the "virtual team" that every online marketer needs now to have success.
I enjoy online marketing, triathlon, personal development, reading, and golf.
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5 Forum Marketing Tips
Forum marketing is a great, but abused method of marketing a site, especially for a home business person or small business entrepreneur. Unfortunately, many people that think they are doing effective "Forum Marketing" are really just being glorified spammers. So this article is not designed to be a comprehensive training on Forum Marketing, as there is already a ton of great content out there about that, but rather a collection of Forum Marketing Tips and ideas.
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How To Handle Twitter Direct Messages
In your Twitter marketing, you may be wondering how to handle Twitter Direct Messages, or "DM's" Well, DM can also stand for the following: Delete Me! Dumb Message! Dismiss Me! Deceptive Mirage...? OK, now it's getting silly. But you get the idea. Direct Messages, at least for marketers who are aggressively using Twitter, are a waste of time. Remember, 90% of them are automatically generated, and those that aren't are rarely replied to anyway. So what's the best way to handle Direct Messages? Delete!
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Twitter Marketing VS. List Building
Twitter Marketing is cool, it's hot, but is it effective? For example, list building has been a primary activity for online marketers for years, but now newbies are getting confused. How does Twitter marketing help in list building? Can your followers be considered a list? If so, how effective is a Twitter list compared to an e-mail list? Before web 2.0, there was only one kind of list. An e-mail list. Home marketers spent all their time trying to build their list, then market to that list with e-mail blasts and auto-responders.
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How People Screw Up "The Secret"
I can't help notice how many "Secret" fans are still broke. They're probably a happier broke, but still broke. And I can't help thinking that they just don't get it. Here's an example: recently I was talking to a die hard "The Secret" fan about a challenge in our business. His advice was to sit and visualize the problem gone, and feeling happy and fulfilled. He gave me a passionate lecture about it. But he didn't like my response. I told him to image being in a room with a smelly pair of shoes in the middle.
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Serious Lessons from Recent MLM Failures
Sometimes we learn more from failure than success. Let's take the recent MLM failure of three companies. Efusjon, Buzzirk Mobile, and iJango. And let me make it clear that when I say "mlm failure," I'm not saying the companies have gone under, but have simply had massive public image "crash and burn" experiences. First of all, Efusjon. Efusjon launched with a ton of hype, a unique story, and guns blazing. You may have heard of the Facebook application growth strategy that is the reps primary pitch. Unfortunately, the truth is there is NO Facebook connection.
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How to Avoid the Twitter Slap
Have you heard of the "Twitter Slap?" Recently hundreds of thousands of Twitter users had their accounts shut down. And the Twitter Slap is expected to be an on going process, as Twitter aggressively monitors it's users to weed out spammers and abusers. Twitter marketing is an outstanding method of increasing your business reach and influence, but if you abuse it, Twitter will shut you down. Are you at risk of a Twitter slap? You could be if: 1. You follow too many people too quickly.
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The "2 Month" Rule Of Blog Success
People ask me all the time how I got my blog in the top 100,000 on Alexa. And as much as I'd love to say it's because of great content, or some special skill, I have to admit that the biggest reason is simply time and consistency. And after coaching hundreds of clients in blogging and social marketing, I have noticed something interesting. No matter what their niche, how good a writer they are, or how pretty looking their blog is, blog success always seems to come to those who post often, and for long enough. The challenge seems to be that first eight weeks.
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Twitter Marketing with TweetDeck
One of my favorite Twitter marketing tools is TweetDeck. (http://tweetdeck.com/beta/) It's a better way to use Twitter tha Twitter itself! If you are using Twitter in your marketing, TweetDeck allows you to view all your relevant info in one simple console. It's a free download, and currently ...
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7 Killer Blog Mistakes
There are definitely more than 7 blog mistakes people make, but having coached a lot of people in blogging, and owning a high traffic blog myself, I have identified these as some of the worst offenders. It's estimated that there's 115 Million blogs online, and let's face it, most of them suck. ...
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10 Amazing Business Habits
In my 16 year stint as an Entrepreneur, I've learned, forgotten, and learned again a lot of great ideas and business habits for Entrepreneurs. Recently I decided to re-commit to some of the best ideas I've discovered. Here are my top ten best habits I'm striving to implement: 1. Have a clear, ...
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4 Laws Of Marketing
While there's many laws of marketing, these four laws particularly apply to the home based market. And while they are very simple, I think the reason for failure among the home based market crowd is often a misunderstanding of one or all of these laws: Law 1. It’s a numbers game. Whoever ...
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How to Build a Powerful Web Presence
How good is your personal Web Presence? By "web presence," I mean your over-all exposure on the internet. One way to find out is to ask yourself these questions: 1. Google your name. Are you on the front page? Second page? Or are you M.I.A. (Missing In Action!) 2. Do you have a Facebook ...
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