Panel

Curtis McHale (twitter github blog)
Eric Davis (twitter github blog)
Reuven Lerner (twitter github blog)
Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up)

Discussion
 01:41 - Subscribers
 04:02 - Email Lists vs Blog Content

Freelance Funnel

11:39 - Content

Updates

16:31 - Layout, Servers, Services & Personalization

MailChimp
Aweber
CSS Support in Email
Eric Davis: My simple HTML email template

34:02 - Launching Products

Nathan Barry: How To Launch Anything
Soft Sale/Hard Sale
Email Frequency

40:17 - Email Courses

Rails Security
Controller Refactoring Course

Picks

Aweber (Eric)
MailChimp (Eric)
premailer (Eric)
Logitech C920 (Curtis)
Zotero (Reuven)
Unsubscribing (Reuven)
Patience (Chuck)
Twitter Bootstrap (Chuck)

Book Club
 Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling ! He will join us for an episode to discuss the book on September 24th. The episode will air on October 3rd.
 Next Week
 SEO with Mike Brooks and Stephen Gardner
 Transcript
 CHUCK: When I speak robot, I sound like R2-D2.

[Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at bluebox.net.]

[You're fantastic at code, but do you have an action plan to take it to the next level? The upcoming book, Next Level Freelance, will help you optimize your freelance business for happiness. The book is packed with actionable steps to make more money, case studies, tips to find more clients, and exercises for you to establish your desired lifestyle. Extras include: 9 interviews with freelancers who make great money while enjoying great work-life balance, videos on strategies to find quality subcontractors, and videos on making more free time by outsourcing your daily tasks. Check it out today at nextlevelfreelance.com!]

CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 74 of The Freelancers' Show! This week on our panel, we have Curtis MacHale.

CURTIS: Good day!

CHUCK: Eric Davis.

ERIC: Hello!

CHUCK: Reuven Lerner.

REUVEN: Hi everyone!

CHUCK: I'm Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv. This week, we're going to be talking about "Email Lists". One thing I want to say before we get started, one of the reasons I do this show is to help me kind of get business. It looks like I'm going to have a slight low, so if you need help with your Ruby programming, let me know. Alright --

ERIC: Hey, wait! Chuck, I need help with my Ruby programming, can I let you know?

CHUCK: Do you have money?

[Laughter]

ERIC: Oh...

REUVEN: This is not a typical interaction they help.

[Laughter]

CHUCK: Anyway, let's talk about email lists. I'm sure you guys, or at least some of you guys, have email lists that you manage, or email lists that you don't manage.

CURTIS: Yeah, it's the both.

CHUCK: [Laughs] Yeah, that's much more my case. I'm a little bit curious, do any of you have more than a few hundred subscribers in any of your lists?

ERIC: I have a little less than 700 on my main list right now; I have the dashboard in front of me.

CHUCK: Awesome!

REUVEN: I don't run a list for my work, but I run a community list that is about 2700 people on it.

CHUCK: Well, if you're talking about something like Ruby Rogues Parley, then I have one.

[Laughter]

CHUCK: I don't really think of it that way. I don't go and -- I participate in as opposed to send out updates or however you want to talk about --

ERIC: Yeah, the exclusive person on it.

REUVEN: Right.

CHUCK: Yeah. And maybe we can talk about those lists, too. But I was thinking more along the lines of the newsletter lists or the marketing lists or whatever you want to call them.

CURTIS: My main one up until real recently was from my first book that I wrote about becoming a WordPress development professional. I've sent out a few emails on that,