http://blog.dotstartup.com Innovations in Affiliate Revenue Portals Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:43:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Welcome to the DotStartUp Mega Mall Blog!  We are going to be walking through the process of setting up your online publishing business from scratch here. Stay informed and inspired as we go step-by-step and invistigate many scenarios and possibilities that you are free to use in making your online business.  This ... http://blog.dotstartup.com/2008/02/05/hello-world/ Creating a Business Idea Henry Ford once said, "Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right!" He was a man that knew about creating and using ideas. What we want to get started today is a stream if ideas. The stream starts to flow and with a little pratice ... http://blog.dotstartup.com/2008/02/05/a-business-is-about-ideas/ Sounds Too Good To Be True? We've all heard this expression before... "If it sounds too good to be true. It probably is!" Before we continue, let's bust some myths about affiliate marketing.  Here is a tagline from a hugely hyped program: Amazing Profit Generator earns 17 year old over 15 million a year! ... http://blog.dotstartup.com/2008/02/06/affiliate-marketing-mythbusters/ Setup Requirements There aren't a lot of requirements for getting your Mega Mall setup. You need an email address, a ClickBank nickname and a credit card. Although these requirements may seem obvious, we should go over a few things first. Your email is an important connection to DoStartUp for critical ordering information, ... http://blog.dotstartup.com/2008/02/07/getting-your-mega-mall-account-setup/ Day 1 at Your New Business Congratulations! You are taking steps towards success. The first day at anything new can be a bit disorienting, so we've brought all the important 'Day 1' stuff into this one post.  Most of your day-to-day work is done in your Dashboard. The Dashboard is a kind of ... http://blog.dotstartup.com/2008/02/08/login-and-setup/ Let the Pages Roll The great thing about your DotStartUp Mega Mall system is that it lets you make as many pages as you want! More pages means more content and content gives you search engine exposure. Creating a new page is pretty straight forward, but may be confusing for the first ... http://blog.dotstartup.com/2008/02/09/creating-your-first-new-page/ Getting Everything Ready to Publish Right now your latest page is in Draft mode. Which means it is not linked to in your Mega Mall and it is not available to search engines to index.  The last step is to publish your page. This will do three things: 1.) Enable search engines ... http://blog.dotstartup.com/2008/02/10/before-you-click-publish/ Different Sidebars for Different Pages? A lot of publshing platforms have set sidebars that are the same for every page. This is not the case with your Mega Mall system. Although your sidebars are copied from your home page when you create a new page, you can change them and tailor them to ... http://blog.dotstartup.com/2008/02/11/changing-your-sidebars/ Adding Images from Image Hosts There are dozens of free image hosting services available on the Web these days.  In this demonstration we'll use Google's Picasaweb service and link an image from there to a page in our hobby Mega Mall. We first locate the image in our online gallery we want ... http://blog.dotstartup.com/2008/02/12/adding-images/ Adding Hyperlinks to your Mega Mall pages One of the fundamental things that glues the Internet together is the hyperlink or sometimes just called link. Every one of your Mega Mall pages can have many custom links that you create yourself or copy and paste from somewhere else. In the next few posts are ... http://blog.dotstartup.com/2008/02/13/adding-a-text-link/