Posted by:
Clayton Makepeace
August 31, 2010
Issue #1000
Dear Business-Builder,
Well, here it is – our 1,000th issue. So today, we’re going to celebrate this milestone by giving you a quintuple shot of TTP.
See, we generally publish five kinds of issues here:
First, we deliver precisely what we’ve promised you since Day One: Our stock-in-trade is and will always be proven direct response strategies and tactics that have the power to help you produce bigger winners, more often.
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Posted by:
Clayton Makepeace
August 30, 2010
Issue #999
Dear Business-Builder,
If, in the summer of 2005, you’d told me that some day, I would one day publish the 1,000th issue of what was then my brand-new semi-monthly e-zine, I’d have figured you for some kind of nutbag.
After all; even a high-school dropout like me knows that, at two issues per month, it would take 38 years and six months to get to 1,000 issues. No way was I going to publish this rag until I was 91!
But it’s actually happening: Tomorrow we publish issue #1,000 – and after only about five years, too!
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Posted by:
Clayton Makepeace
August 27, 2010
Issue #998
My Secret Weapon:
The “unfair advantage” that has helped me
beat the competition into submission since 1995:
How you can have it, too …
Dear Business-Builder,
They say the ultimate in “chutzpah” is killing your parents, then asking the judge for mercy because you’re an orphan.
I know – gross. But you gotta admire people who know what they want and who’ll go to just about any lengths to get it.
Like the guy I knew who landed an airplane, unannounced at a KGB listening post at the Arctic Circle and bribed a Soviet Colonel to lend him a helicopter – just so his son could make it into The Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest person ever to visit the North Pole.
Or the infamous mercenary and publisher of Soldier of Fortune magazine I spent a day and a raucous evening with in 1980 who got himself invited to tag along on the Bay of Pigs Invasion just for grins.
Or the guy I met just last week, who sold Castro a boatload of coffee for $1.8 million – cash in advance – then told the Cuban authorities his boat had sunk on its way to Havana.
I don’t care who you are; this stuff is priceless.
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Posted by:
Clayton Makepeace
August 23, 2010
Issue #994
A Candid Conversation
with Web Genius DANIEL LEVIS
Dear Business-Builder,
As you know, my mission is a very simple one: To make you money.
For the last four years, we’ve done that by bringing you truly amazing volumes of free information and advice in THE TOTAL PACKAGE – and by overdelivering mind-blowing income-boosting content at our Power Marketing Summit, our teleconferences and in our other products.
Not very long ago, Daniel and I spent some time talking about web marketing and what he had to say could go a long way to rocketing the response to your web promotions through the roof …
If you do any web marketing at all, you are NOT going to want to miss this interview!
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Posted by:
Clayton Makepeace
August 16, 2010
Issue #989
- Why 90% of today’s ad campaigns are a total waste of money …
- How Madison Avenue sleight of hand turns savvy business people into drooling morons …
- The four things every ad MUST accomplish to be successful …
- A great opportunity for copywriters – in a place you’d never even THINK of looking …
- Much more!
Dear Business-Builder,
Sometimes I wish I had gone into advertising instead of direct response marketing.
I can see myself nestled in a posh Madison Avenue corner office, hauling down six figures a year, creating beer-swilling frogs, taco-eating Chihuahuas and other madcap characters …
… And of course, personally casting ads in which scantily clad babes with legs up to here and bushels of bouncing booty and boobage cavort in soapy slow motion!
I can see myself being worshipped as an "advertising genius" for this "brilliant" work … getting huge bonuses and promotions … winning armfuls of creative awards … and getting my smiling face plastered all over the cover of Ad Age.
The best part? Knowing that nobody will ever ask the question, "… But do his ads work?"
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