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, billing information and customer support. It is somtimes required that you check your ‘junk’ or ’spam’ folder for the first message and indentify ’support @ dotstartup.com’ as a legitimate sender. You don’t want support or billing info getting junked then deleted by your mail program. We send you a welcome email with all the important stuff in it to the email address you specify, so make sure that it is correct.

The ClickBank nickname is your connection to thousands of ClickBank vendors and will appear in each link and ad that points to these vendors. Without a ClickBank nickname you will not be able to setup a Mega Mall. The nice thing is a ClickBank nickname is free and easy to apply for. If you have a ClickBank nickname already, there is only one last requirement; a valid credit card to purchase the Mega Mall system.

When you go through the order process you will be taken to ClickBank for a single-page payment then returned to us to complete the setup. 

We do not store payment or credit card info on our servers.

After payment, there is one last setup page. You are asked to create a Name for your Mega Mall and choose a username and domain that will become the address of your site. Let’s look at these setup options in detail and learn how we can make the most of them.

Name

The Name of your Mega Mall can be anything you like and you can change this later in your Dashboard by clicking the Account button. A good Name is the thing that becomes your Mega Mall brand if you will.

Your Name should reflect your primary topic as we looked at in the Ideas page. For a niche mall you should always try to include your topic in your name. This improves visibility in search engines. It also tells people what your pages offer. So if your topic is ‘brick and tile making’ then use those words in the Name.

Username

Next in the process is choosing a Username.  Your username has two important functions. Firstly is becomes the sub-domain or part of your Mega Mall address. Here is an example…

If choose the Username hobby-stop’ then your Mega Mall address will have that username in it. So your address may be http://hobby-stop.kewlhut.com. The username you choose has value in a marketing way too. The word ’hobby’ is included and this adds that strength to your address when someone is searching for ‘hobby’ on a search engine. 

Tip: Always think of your topic when choosing your Username.

Password

The last thing you need to enter in the setup process is a password. Passwords must be more than 4 characters and ideally they should contain numbers and letters. Passwords are not allowed to contain any punctuation marks or spaces.

Now you’re done and the next page will send your welcome email and let you access your new Mega Mall.

Best Wishes,

 DotStartUp

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 mission control center for your publishing business. First lets look at logging in to your Dashboard.

Login

When you signed up you created a Username and a Password. You should have also received a welcome email. Click the My Dashboard link from the email, or go to the bottom of any of your Mega Mall pages and click the Admin link. You will be taken to the Login page that looks something like this…

Enter your Username and Password and click the Login button.

After a successful login you will be taken to your Dashboard.  In every Dashboard there is a menu bar along the top that assists you in navigating around and getting your work done.

Your Home Page 

When you first start up, you have only one main page linked in your Mega Mall (and hundreds of sub pages). This is your HOME page. When someone visits your new web site, they see this HOME page first.  (More advanced users may want to change which page appears as their home page and you can do this later on if you like.)

Probably the most important thing about your home page is this:

Your home page is used to make copies for your new pages you create.

This means that you want to have something unique appearing on your home page right off the bat. So follow these steps to get some unique content on your home page:

1.) Click on the Pages button. This is where you work on pages.

2.) In the Mega Mall Page List click the Edit link for the Home page.

3. Edit the content in the Body Content editor.

You can type in as much as you want into this body area. The things you put here will appear in your home page as soon as you hit Save, so make sure to check over your work before saving. The nice thing is that it can easily be changed later.

Header Setup

The Header is the top part of your page. Some things in the header are visible to us humans while other things are hidden and seen by search engines. We have a special section called Header Section that lets us change this info to better match our topic.

Select the Header Section from the drop down selector at the top right of the page.

You will see the home page’s header items ready for editing. We have changed these to match our topic of the hobby store.

Once you have this basic information in your boxes, be sure to update the by clicking the Update Header Section button.

So now you have unique home page and have had a little experience with the Content Editor you are ready to create more pages and add more Affiliate Programs to your system. We’ll look closely at making a new page in the next step.

 Best wishes,

 DotStartUp