The workload of conducting an eCourse with hundreds or thousands of clients via a normal email client would be tremendous. It could easily become a full-time job to send messages, subscribe members, unsubscribe members, avoid sending duplicate messages, and so on.

All this is completely unnecessary.

There are several stand-alone programs that are designed specifically for electronic courses. However I do not recommend any of them right now.

This is because you can simply accomplish exactly same thing by using an inexpensive autoresponder instead of spending several hundred dollars on a customize software program.

Autoresponders are ideal for conducting eCourses because once autoresponder is setup it requires no daily maintenance from you. Ever.

Software that you run on your computer requires you to start software daily, import and export contact info of subscribers, process subscribe requests, process unsubscribe requests and other general daily maintenance tasks. Yuck!

A real drag, which is truly unnecessary.

Just keep in mind that you can load a series of sequential lessons or messages into your autoresponder, set frequency of communication whether that be daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly and sit back and let your messages get communicated to your market.

Your autoresponder handles all tedious tasks for you.

The beauty of this is that whether you are communicating with one person or one million, daily workload to communicate with course participants is exactly same.

Zero.

Another way that you can implement eCourses or eSeminars is to tie your autoresponder messages in with multimedia formats like MP3 files, flash animation, and even live video.

You simply preload your autoresponder with instructions on where to access next lesson, set it and forget it.

Each day, week, month, or quarter your course participants will receive instructions and you will maintain regular communications with them. All on autopilot.

This is a win/win for everyone.

The choice to use email, flash, streaming audio or video is best decided upon your circumstances and your technical ability.

I strongly recommend keeping things simple. Stick to email autoresponders. However if you hate typing then instead of typing your course materials you can record information with an audio recorder such as All Sound Recorder.

That way you communicate same information with less typing involved. The downside is that all multimedia files will increase your monthly bandwidth far in excess of what will be accomplished through using just email.

So if monthly bandwidth is an issue stay away from multimedia. Especially if your web provider charges a premium.

Stick to simple email eCourses and you will be able to provide valuable information to your market and remain in touch with them, all while keeping your life as simple and stress-free as possible.

For free autoresponders that you can run from your own hosted domain check out http://willmaster.com

He offers both free and paid versions of his autoresponders. If you use AOL or a web host that prohibits custom CGI scripts your next best bet is to use one of remotely hosted autoresponders such as provided by http://besent.com and http://sendfree.com

Each of these solutions allows you to communicate as frequently as you wish and with very little administrative headache to all of your clients, not just those considered to be ideal.

And best of all this can be accomplished without need to hire a full-time staff, even if your clients number into hundreds of thousands.

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76. Start with name of a product you plan to feature or write a commentary on or give an example of. Example, “Pillsbury's Hotpockets have cooled since...”

77. Turn chapter title into a verb. Example if book or chapter is about quilts then start chapter with "Quilting" as first word of chapter.

Want another example? Ok let's say you want to write about runners, opening word will be "Running".

78. And here's one that is a no brainer all by itself, "The..."

Get it? Good!

Now those are complete secrets to getting started on your book. You should now be ready to complete your book or article, one sentence, paragraph, and chapter at a time.

TIP: Think this won't work? Wrong! Go back through this article and see if you can count how many of these starters were used in this very article you are now reading.

You will see that this really works!

Hey, don't tell me you only read through these ideas. That won't help you one bit.

The greatest good intention is worthless without action.

Grab a pen or pencil or your favorite pc and start at top of suggestions and work your way down.

Then you will have taken your first steps towards making your dream of writing a reality, and you will have conquered greatest challenge you'll ever face, how to get started at writing your own book or articles.

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