After being amazed for the last time to see otherwise very-intelligent people finish sentences as if they had collapsed and died on their keyboard's full-stop ('period', for the Yanks) button, as well as being shocked by a recommendation in a book about writing headlines that said "Use dots!", I would like to point out, for those who don't alredy know, that the "dots" are called ellipses and there are only 3 of them (with no spaces)!

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With all the great marketing products floating about, it's easy to forget the "old ways".

Despite writing it over 7 years ago, I never thought to produce a small free report to promote a bad breath product that I sell on Clickbank until early last year.

When I finally "got round to it" (my favourite excuse), I produced a tiny (1 page) article and a wee screenshot of my salespage at the end, all compiled into a PDF.

I only put it in the...

I used to wonder how people got those at the top of their fields to endorse their publications and now I've found out.

It turns out there is no 'Old Boys Network' that slap each others back... nor do you have to sell your first-born.

Here's what I did:

"Hello XXX, my name is Tommy. I wrote the Bad Breath Report. It's about stopping bad breath. Here's a copy. What do you think?"

And I got back a wealth of comments, recommendations,...

If you want to offer a higher affiliate percentage to a potential super-affiliate, while still taking advantage of the sheer convenience of the Clickbank affiliate system, and you don't want to go through the learning curve with a piece of software or a script designed to do this... just get another Clickbank account!

You can set the affiliate rate at whatever you want. And you can tell them (your potential super-affiliate) that you have created an "exclusive account just for...

Some years ago, I used a template in an e-book that I can't remember to create an e-mail that is automatically sent to customers at the time of purchase (in addition to offering the download directly from the download page).

It eliminated almost all of the queries and complaints I used to get about download problems from people who aren't very computer savvy. (Although, obviously, it doesn't work for those who's ISP blocked the e-mail - or those who just don't read things - but they...