What do a retired USAF officer, a former mechanical engineer and a Texan, whose greatest dream come true would be hearing himself announced as the next batter in a World Series game, have in common?

At first glance it doesn’t seem like much.

But despite their varied backgrounds they do share a couple things. Each of these is not only a successful online marketer but a master list builder. Your email customer list is the most important asset you, as a marketer, own! And, building a responsive list is the absolute best skill you can develop.

Willie Crawford, Kevin Riley and Eric Louviere along with James Brown and Mark Hendricks, a couple more master list builders, can and will tell you how to do what they’ve done.

Yes, I said tell you.

All five of them are featured speakers on Warner Carter’s new audio series, “Proven Email Marketing Strategies”. This is a set of five 40 minute audio interviews in which Warner asks specific list building strategy questions and Riley, Crawford, Louviere, Hendricks and Brown answer–in great detail.

Over the past few years I’ve been privileged to participate in conference calls with Willie, Eric and Kevin. Willie and I have discussed collards, grits and marketing; Eric and I  have talked about copy writing (he’s a well respected, results getting, direct response copywriter). Kevin is one of my absolute best pals. We’ve spent way too much time talking about everything from home improvement to politics (someday I’ll get him straightened out ) to marketing– a lot of IM. Hendricks and Brown I know by reputation.

From listening to these interviews I’ve gotten confirmation on some of my thoughts and ideas and extremely worthwhile stuff I didn’t know.

Warner is a quick-on-the-uptake interviewer. While he starts with a set of pre-written questions when he hears something that needs elaboration he asks the specific question to get even better answers for us.

Another very useful benefit he’s added is to provide all of the interviews in convenient downloadable MP3 format. This is in addition to the web based audio. I particularly like MP3′s because I can load them into my MP3 player and listen while driving or any time I’m away from the web. Plus, if the website is down or you’re having local internet problems you still have the content available when you want it.

“Proven Email Marketing Strategies” are five of the best, if not the absolute best, interviews available on building your own profitable lists!

I highly recommend them and suggest you reserve yours now. You’ll be glad you did!

Talk with you later, I’m going back to listening to “Proven Email Marketing Strategies”,

Elmer Hurlstone

PS. To find out more about building effective, high converting, profitable lists simply click any of the “Proven Email Marketing Strategies” links.

Many people, newbies as well as established successful internet marketers use WordPress blogs to spread their message.

WordPress because of its ease of use and beyond belief flexibility is the ideal platform for affiliate marketers. Most marketing experts recommend beginning your marketing journey as an affiliate.

Given the above it makes sense to automate as much of the IM sales process as possible. Anything you can put on auto-pilot will increase your productivity and consequently your potential income.

As you probably know there are hundreds–if not thousands–of Plugins available to modify and automate many of the tasks connected with blogging. Some help with SEO, others with placing images on your blog and still others help you fight spam. These among others are of prime importance to all bloggers. Some plugins are essential to affiliate marketing. Quick aside: did you know some people call affiliate marketing, “bum marketing”? No it’s not derogatory, but more about that some other time.

A few days ago I bought a new WP Plugin called Easy WP Affiliate. I finally took the very few minutes required to install and test it.

I’m impressed!

First, from download to hitchless installation took but a very few minutes. Since I’m less than super technical that’s a wonderful thing.

This handy inexpensive (at this point–although the price may go up with the next version) plugin will turn your keywords into hyperlinks with your affiliate referral id included. People are used to seeing hyperlinks in your posts and many will click on them.

Here’s how Easy WP Affiliate works:

After installing EWPA go to the “Write” section of your blog; you’ll notice a new addition on the right side of the menu bar titled, “Easy WP Affiliate”, ignore it for now.

Write your post and save it. Decide which are the main keywords in the article. Click on the “EWPA” link and a new menu will open. Click “Add” and a window with three text entry boxes will open. Type a keyword into the first box. In the second box enter the number of times you wish it show in the post. In the third box enter your affiliate link. Hit the submit button.

Pretty easy, huh?

One thing I noticed: If you use keywords you previously manually hyper linked in an article you’ll have to manually unlink the originals for the tool to correctly display the link. It looks rather ugly if you don’t.

All in all EWPA is a very useful and time maximizing tool.

I Highly recommend EWPA!

Elmer Hurlstone

PS. have you clicked one of the links yet?