Expert article syndicators, just a few questions...

...surely you know who you are!

I'm seeking your sage advice on a few nagging questions I have about the process. Feel free to answer one or all, in as much or as little detail as you please. Newbies experiencing success with this method (I presume you also know who you are), feel free to chime in.

1. Do you make use of/would you advise using Creative Commons licenses in order to invite potential publishers to syndicate your article? Is there a real, substantial advantage in licensing your syndication-ready articles through Creative Commons?

2. Do you make use of/would you advise using RSS feeds as a means of distributing your articles? I imagine that posting the full-length article, rather than just summaries, in my feed will be most effective--or am I wrong? Besides that, how else would you use RSS feeds?

3. In building your network of publishers, do you ask them to opt-in to your private publishers' network in the first introduction email or in the second email after, presumably, they've accepted your first article offering? I've been worried, perhaps needlessly, that asking publishers to take this "extra step" would be too much of a bother for them, or that it would go ignored in many cases (especially with high-profile websites).

4. I want to start out using pen names, of course, for a few niches. However, what if I want to offer article syndication services--for example, to businesses and other internet marketers--in the future? I presume I'd have to do this under my real name, but publishers will only know me under my pen name. How might I maintain authentic relationships with publishers from the start, so they'll know the "real me" if I want to syndicate other people's articles in the future?

5. For anyone starting out in IM, I'm quite convinced that thoughtful syndication of high-quality articles might yield the best long-term results, and that few other methods are as powerful. But, for a newbie who's under pressure and seeking the fastest results--in terms of traffic to your landing page or getting opt-ins--would you advise using other marketing methods such as social media, forum marketing, blog commenting, etc. in conjunction with article syndication? Or, is one's time best leveraged by using article syndication alone, in your opinion? (I believe in building a "real business," of course, and syndication is my favorite marketing method at the moment. But do you think one could start seeing measurable success, in terms of sales, within a month of doing this every day?)

6. In one of my niches, pretty much all the top spots in Google are taken up by authority websites that want only exclusive content from their "guest bloggers." How much, in your experience, have you had to "educate" potential publishers about article syndication, the "duplicate content" myth, etc.? (I imagine not much, because you'd simply ignore those who make demands of exclusivity--and I'm willing to do the harder work to find publishers that do see the benefits of syndication--but just wondering what you would do if you were focusing on web-based publishers in a certain niche and found yourself lost in a sea of exclusive-content-demanding websites and blogs.)

7. One last thing: I'm having trouble finding some of the excellent advice I once read here on how to best frame your article resource boxes. Can someone here point me to the relevant thread(s) if they're on hand, or if it's easier, just describe how you write them for the best results? How do you use the "two links" that EzineArticles allows you?

I'm an avid reader of WF threads dealing with the topic of syndication, so please forgive me if any of these questions have been answered in depth before; it's not for lack of my effort in trying to find those answers. In addition, to let you know "where I'm coming from," I've purchased both "Turn Words Into Traffic" by Jim Edwards and a lifetime membership to the Directory of Ezines. I imagine that with those two resources, combined with the wealth of information here in the Warrior Forum, I don't need to shell out any more cash at the moment (although I may pick up some other informative guides in the future)--I just need to get started already

Thanks a lot!