Dr. Ralph F. Wilson, Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Ralph F. Wilson is widely recognized as one of the top international authorities in the area of Internet marketing. Business Week called his popular WilsonWeb.com website: "bar none the best e-commerce resource out there." Business 2.0 profiled him as one of the savvy dot-com survivors. The New York Times named Dr. Wilson "among the best-known Internet Marketing publishers and consultants who preach the responsible use of e-mail for marketing."

He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Web Marketing Today^®, the grandfather of the Internet marketing e-zines, published continuously since 1995. Currently it is sent to 101,000+ confirmed opt-in subscribers .

He is a winner of the Tenagra Award for Internet Marketing Excellence and the author of hundreds of articles and numerous books, including Planning Your Internet Marketing Strategy (John Wiley & Sons, 2002), The E-Mail Marketing Handbook (Second Edition, 2005), and The Shopping Cart Report (Second Edition, 2004).

Dr. Wilson speaks widely in the US and abroad as a professional speaker on Internet marketing and e-commerce. His one-day seminars, such as the Internet Marketing Best Practices Briefings (2001-2006), have been held on university campuses all over the US. An ordained minister, he serves as pastor of First Baptist Church of Nevada City and maintains an extensive Internet Bible study and Christian writing ministry.

He plays the guitar and autoharp and sings, and admires bluegrass and Celtic fiddlers. He tries to play disc golf once or twice a week. When there's time he enjoys woodworking, reading Civil War history, and walking in the woods. Dr. Wilson holds three earned academic degrees and lives with his wife on ten acres he calls "Wildwood" in Loomis, California, about 20 miles northeast of Sacramento.

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