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Join a group therapy support group. Your specialist may refer you to such a group that puts you in contact with others who are going through the same process. By listening to their stories and sharing your own you will understand that you are not alone.

I read about 8 pages of his sales pitch (or 'copy as it is known in the trade - sounds like I know what I'm talking about), with substantial discounts and "one-time-only" offers. All scientifically proven by a series of testimonials! Great spin but where was the substance. Ahh! If only I supply my details I get the secrets to his success. God I'm a sucker and there goes my Email again! Anyway what harm can it do?

I can't really think of too many disadvantages. I guess some customers may not like them because if they want to go back to just one section to review it then it's not as easy as with an ebook. You can solve this, in part, by breaking your Konsultan audio product down into shorter time chunks.

All goes well for a while, then low and behold, within minutes of his the second video, you get the first glitch - the website he shows has a different interface as it is an updated version. I go to bed dejected!

Now don't get me wrong, I am definitely not complaining about either of these systems as they, in themselves are great, but I saw myself getting trapped (or my wife did when she found the credit card statement!) between the actual time spent learning how to set up the business and the fact that there is always something new to learn, so you spend more time etc.

specialist audio If you can't do anything else, do this - take other products you have, and bundle them together with your current product as a bonus. Or offer additional support Let's say once a month, you'll do a teleseminar answering the five most common questions that are asked.

If you already work in a studio or have a home studio setup, you probably already have high quality microphones and a mixing console. In this scenario you would mic up or direct input your instrument into the mixing console and have a separate microphone connected to talk through. You can then adjust the mix volume of your voice and instrument accordingly. You could then output the mix to your computers audio 'line in' input and use that as your microphone source in the instant messaging tool.