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The document outlines a step-by-step process for setting up a 12 Minute Affiliate system for generating affiliate commissions.

The process involves selecting a niche, creating affiliate accounts, setting up an autoresponder, activating affiliate funnels, and obtaining targeted traffic.

The main steps are: 1) Create affiliate accounts 2) Set up autoresponder 3) Activate funnels 4) Get targeted traffic

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12 Minute Affiliate System


Step-By-Step Written Setup Instructions

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Contents
Select A Niche If You Are A Basic Member ....................................................................................8
STEP #1 Create A Free Affiliate Account .....................................................................................10
PART #2: Creating your Clickbank Nickname (also referred to sometimes as your Clickbank
ID) ....................................................................................................................................................21
STEP #2 Get Your Auto-Responder ..............................................................................................25
STEP #3 Set Up Your Auto-Responder.........................................................................................36
Campaign Sharing Code ...............................................................................................................49
Image 3.9 above .......................................................................................................................49
STEP #4 Activate Your 12 Minute Affiliate Funnels ..................................................................... 71
(Optional) - Done-For-You Setup ..................................................................................................74
STEP #5 Get Targeted Traffic ........................................................................................................83

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*Steps 3 and 4 should be skipped if you are having 12MA


staff complete the setup for you.

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How To Use This Document


These step-by-step written setup instructions are intended to be referenced as
you go through the set-up process.
Detailed images have been provided so be sure to read the boxes and follow
the arrows within the images.
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Click here to return to the Table of Contents

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Select A Niche If You Are A Basic Member


Before creating your affiliate account at Clickbank, you will be prompted to
select a niche if you are a basic member (you cannot change niches after
you make your selection).
Basic Members will see a page as shown below.

Image A.1 above

Gold members can skip the above step, as they’ve got access to all
of the affiliate niche markets already.

Basic members, follow the instructions in the images in the steps


below.

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Image A.2 above

Image A.3 above

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Now, it’s time to create a free affiliate account at Clickbank.

STEP #1 Create A Free Affiliate Account


(2 Minutes)

Image 1.1 above

If you already have a Clickbank account and wish to use that account for 12
Minute Affiliate, follow the 3 steps in the image below.

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Image 1.2 above

Otherwise, go to the next image and begin creating your Clickbank account.

Image 1.3 above

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A few points to keep in mind as we begin this process:


Your Clickbank ID (also known as your “Nickname”) is chosen/created by
YOU as part of the process of you creating your Clickbank account.

You MUST have a Clickbank ID/Nickname to earn affiliate commissions.

Please note that your Clickbank ID/Nickname is NOT your email address.

Creating your Clickbank account is extremely easy and consists of 2 major


parts.

PART #1: Create your Clickbank Profile


PART #2: Create your Clickbank Nickname (also referred to sometimes as
your Clickbank ID)

PART #1: STEPS TO CREATING YOUR CLICKBANK PROFILE


(Note: If you know already have a Clickbank Profile, you may click here to skip
ahead to Part #2)

1. To create a new Clickbank account go to


https://accounts.clickbank.com/master/create-account

2. Fill in the boxes (see Image 1.4 below):


a. Choose your Country in the dropdown
b. Enter Your First Name
c. Enter your Last Name
d. Enter your Phone Number
e. Enter your Email Address
f. Create a Password that you’ll remember

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3. Once you have filled in the boxes above. You must click on “Continue to
Terms and Conditions”

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4. Review the Terms and Conditions and scroll down to bottom and click on
“Accept Terms and Conditions”

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5. Click on ‘Join Clickbank!’

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6. When you see the box labeled “Want a Head Start?” click on “No, I got
this on my own”

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7. Click on “Complete My Profile”

Image 1.9 above

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8. Fill out the form including your Street Address (this is where your checks
will get sent).

Image 1.10 above

9. Your Payee information (see Image 1.11 below)

- Your “Payee Name” should be the name on your bank account.


If you have a REGISTERED business (like an LLC or an S-Corp), this is
likely your
company name. If you don’t have a registered business, then your payee
name will
likely be your legal first and last name.

- Your Tax ID is one of the following


If you have a Registered Business, you should know your Tax ID number.
If you do NOT have a registered business, you’ll want to use your Social
Security
Number (if you live in the U.S.)

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- If you’re at all confused as to what to use, simply click on the “?” icon next to
each field.

Image 1.11 above

10. When you get to the section labeled “Let’s Optimize Your Performance”.
Select ‘Promote products as an affiliate’ from the dropdown menu.

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11. Select your Company's Annual Revenue.

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Image 1.13 above

12. Click “Save”

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13. Proceed to Part #2 below.

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PART #2: Creating your Clickbank Nickname (also referred to sometimes as your Clickbank
ID)

1. To create a Clickbank ID (AFTER you’ve completed your Clickbank


profile):

a. Make sure you’re logged into to your Clickbank Account


(Log in using your Email address)
https://accounts.clickbank.com/login.htm

b. Click on the ‘Accounts’ Link on the left side

c. Click on the ‘Create Account’ button (see below)

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d. Under Account Type, select ‘Affiliate (Promote products)’

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e. Click the box labeled ‘Nickname’ (see Image 1.17 below)


From here you get to CREATE the Clickbank Nickname you
want.
Often, people will select the same Nickname/User ID for their
12MA account and their Clickbank account, but this is up to
you.

Type your Clickbank Nickname (also known as a User ID)


into the field provided.

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Image 1.17 above

f. Click the ‘Create Account’ Button

Image 1.18 above

Once you’ve clicked “Create Account” you should be good to go, and you

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should see your Clickbank Nickname inside your Clickbank Account.

Now, copy your Clickbank Nickname to your clipboard.

Then paste your Clickbank nickname into the box in Quickstart Step #1. Please
make sure you do not accidentally copy a “space” before or after your
Clickbank Nickname when copying/pasting in your Clickbank nickname.

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Then you will see this:

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Click here to return to the Table of Contents

STEP #2 Get Your Auto-Responder


(2 Minutes)
Note: If you already are a client of Aweber, you can skip this step and proceed
to the next step to set up the autoresponder (and your list).

To create a new account at Aweber, click here and then enter your first and
last name along with your email address (for Aweber billing purposes) as
shown in the form below.

Once this information has been entered, click the big green “Start your 30-day
free trial today” button. Note that Aweber no longer offers a free trial. They will
cover more on this on the following page.

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Next, you will be prompted to enter some additional.

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Go ahead and re-enter your name and email address.


Then click Sign Up.
Note that Aweber does not offer a free trial any longer.

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Now go to your email account and open the message Aweber has just sent
you.

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This is the email you will receive. In it, you will find your Aweber login name
(mine is blurred out) and a button to click to verify your email address.
Go ahead and click the Get Started button.

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Next, enter the email address you’ve just used to create the AW account (See
image below).

Now, create a password – be sure to incorporate the criteria shown below the
password box.

Image 2.5 above

MAKE SURE YOU WRITE DOWN YOUR AWEBER USERNAME AND


PASSWORD!! KEEP THESE IN A SAFE PLACE.

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When you’ve finished, click Save Password

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Now, select a plan.

You NEED the Pro version.

Do NOT get the free version. The free version will not work for your 12ma
business.

You can choose between a yearly payment (or even a quarterly payment)
billed up front, or a monthly payment.

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Enter your billing information, then click Upgrade.

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Great! Your AW account has now been created!

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Go back to the “GET YOUR AUTO-RESPONDER ACCOUNT”


window.

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This completes the section on creating your Aweber account.


The next section will cover setting up your autoresponder.
But, if you want our staff to set up your autoresponder for you and
load all the campaign messages, create your lists and take care of all
the settings, and then test everything to make sure it all works
properly, You can skip the next two steps and go on to the Optional
Done-For-You Setup item on the Quickstart Checklist. Just make

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sure you have your Aweber and Clickbank information if you want us
to set everything up for you.
Click here to return to the Table of Contents
STEP #3 Set Up Your Auto-Responder
(Step-By-Step Instructions)
NOTE: If you would rather have the 12MA staff set up your
autoresponder for you, skip this step and the next one, and go to the
(Optional) step on your Quickstart checklist. Just make sure you
have your Aweber and Clickbank information if you want us to set
everything up for you.

Watch the second video to help in setting up Aweber.

Image 3.1 above

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Log into your Aweber account and follow the steps in the video above to set up
your autoresponder.
For a step-by-step walkthrough on setting up your autoresponder once you
have created your Aweber account, you can follow the instructions below.
From the Quickstart checklist…

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If you are continuing from Step #2 of the Quickstart Checklist, you may see a
page like the one below. Don’t worry about subscribers right now. Click the
“List Options” tab.

Image 3.1c above

If you are a CURRENT Aweber client, or if you are creating your second or
third 12 minute affiliate lists, go to Manage Lists, click the green “Create A
List” button, and proceed.
NOTE: Aweber’s page appearance (especially in the navigation tabs) may be
different from the images shown below. Aweber has recently made some
updates and this guide has not yet captured all of Aweber’s changes.

Image 3.2 above

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This page asks for information used in setting up your list.

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Then click Next Step.

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Now, describe your list.

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Just go on down to the green button and click Approve Message & Create List.

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Now, you are taken to the Account Dashboard. Note the new layout in Aweber
for the navigation links.

Image 3.4b above

Always note and confirm that you are in the desired list and that it shows as the
Active List.

Image 3.4c above

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Now, hover your mouse on List Options and click on List Settings.

Image 3.4d above

Copy this Unique List ID. Paste it into a Notepad document. You will need this
in a few minutes.

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If you are in more than one niche, you will need to create one list for each
niche. You wouldn’t want to email your home business list an offer pertaining to
fitness. This could cause people to unsubscribe from your list.

If you have watched the video for setting up your Aweber list and have been referred
to a Campaign Import Code, please scroll down to approximately Page 49 as the
page numbers of this document have changed during an update from the original
version. Look for Image 3.9 or Click Here

Next, hover your mouse over the “Messages” tab near the top of the page.

Image 3.6 above

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This dropdown menu appears.

Image 3.6a above

In the Messages dropdown, click on “Campaigns.”

Image 3.6b above

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As shown in the next image, the Campaigns page now opens. Since this is a
new list, there are no campaigns on the list yet.

Image 3.6c above

Click the Create a Campaign button.

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Image 3.7 above

Here you will enter the Campaign Sharing Code for your chosen niche. See
Image 3.9 for a list of codes.

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Image 3.8 above

Campaign Sharing Code

For the image above, copy and paste to ensure accuracy:

CAMPAIGN SHARING CODES:

Home Business/ Make Money Online awlist5172368-b70f8-$F

Fitness Niche awlist5179811-4c45a-$F

Personal Development awlist5184594-40015-$F

Image 3.9 above

Once you have entered your campaign code, look closely at it and make sure it
is the correct campaign code and that there are no spaces before or after the

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code. In the example shown below, a portion of the code has been blurred out.
You should obtain the correct code for your niche from Image 3.9.

Then click Import.

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By default, the name of the campaign will have this name, beginning with,
“Copy of”.

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Give your campaign a new name. In this example, I named it homebusiness1.

Image 3.10b above

Next, click Create.

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The campaign is now being imported.

Image 3.10d above

When the campaign messages have completed the upload process, you can
see the list of messages on the Campaigns page, a portion of which is shown
in the image below. BUT you’re NOT done yet!

Image 3.11 above

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NOTICE this campaign is currently in DRAFT status and is not yet active. It is
NOT ready to use. We will fix that in just a moment.

Image 3.12 above

Here are your campaign messages (at the top of the list of messages). Do
NOT make any changes to these messages or the entire campaign may not
work properly, if at all.

Image 3.13 above

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This shows the last few messages of your campaign (the bottom of the list of
messages). Again, do NOT make any changes to these messages or the entire
campaign may not work properly, if at all.

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Click Save & Exit

Image 3.15 above

Then you will see this page.

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Click on the Draft button.

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Click on the Activate Campaign button.

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Your campaign is now Active.

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Once the campaign has been imported and activated, hover your mouse over
List Options and the click on List Settings…(see Image 3.20 below).

Image 3.20 above

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Click the “Personalize Your List” link.

Image 3.21 above

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From the “Personalize Your List” tab in the left sidebar…

Enter your name or your company name in the field labeled, “Company Name.”

In the “Email Signature” box, type in a closing and your name, followed by the
FTC (Federal Trade Commission) notice. An example is provided in Image
3.23.

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See the example below for the signature that includes a notice to your
subscribers that you may earn a commission if they buy something through
your link.

EXAMPLE:

Warmest Regards,

<Your Name>

You received this message because you opted in on one of my web pages. If
you should follow a link in this email and make a purchase, I may earn a
small commission. If you wish to no longer hear from me (and miss out on
cool, new developments in the field), you may click the link in this email to
unsubscribe.

Image 3.24 above

NOTE: You can substitute similar language in the email signature to that
shown above. I am not an attorney and cannot provide legal advice so I can
only show you what I often use in my own emails.

Scroll to the bottom and click the “Save settings” button. Then click on the
“Confirmation Message” link. See image below.

See image below.

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Image 3.25 above

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While on the “Confirmation Message” page

Scroll down to the “Confirmation messages settings” section.

There SHOULD be two buttons. The first one will appear Green, the second
will already be Red. You want to be sure BOTH of these boxes are RED
(OFF).

Image 3.26 above

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NOTE: In some cases, you may find this section does not have the two
buttons. The missing button will be the button you need to turn off the double
opt in (also referred to as Confirmed Optin) This is the TOP button in the image
above.

In the rare event this option is not there for you, contact Aweber Support and
ask them to make this option available for you. Or, you can contact
12minuteaffiliate Support for assistance.

Scroll to the bottom and click the “Save settings” button as shown in Image
3.26 above.

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While on the “Personalize Your List” page…

Image 3.27 above

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Click on the Edit button.

Image 3.28 above

**Important Note – The 12min id is the user id you created when you set up
your 12 Minute Affiliate account

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If you copy and paste the information, make sure you have not accidentally
pasted in any spaces before or after the information.

Once you have entered this information in Steps #1 and #2 of Image 3.29,
scroll down and be sure to click “Save settings” (Step #3 in the image above).

Next, enter your 12minaff ID in the box. The example below is blurred out. The
click the Save button.

Image 3.29 above

If you are going to be setting up more than just one niche (Gold
Members), go back to the beginning of Step #3 and repeat these steps to
set up the additional lists in Aweber.

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Once you have set up all your lists, or just the one for Basic Members,
you can log out of your Aweber account and go back to the Quickstart
Checklist and Check the box as shown in the image below. Then click the
‘X’ to close the “SETTING UP YOUR AUTO-RESPONDER” window.

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Now it’s time to activate your funnels in the next step!

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STEP #4 Activate Your 12 Minute Affiliate Funnels


Skip this step and go to the (Optional) step if you would rather the
12MA staff set your system up for you.

Image 4.1 above

Image 4.2 above

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If you are a Gold Member, see the image below.

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After clicking the “ACTIVATE” button, you will see a progress indicator similar
to the image below.

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Click here to return to the Table of Contents

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(Optional) - Done-For-You Setup


(2 Minutes)

This option is for you if you want the 12MA staff to do the setup for
you.

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Now, complete the order form shown in the image below.

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Click the Green “Download or Access Digital Product” Button, in the


image above.

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Then, on the next page provide your autoresponder user name and
password, your Clickbank nickname, and your 12 Minute Affiliate
password. If you are involved with other affiliate programs or if there
are any other affiliate products you would like the 12 Minute Affiliate
system to promote on your behalf, enter up to 3 affiliate url’s on
separate lines. Each url should begin with https:// or http://

Then, click the green “Submit My Information” button.

Image 5.4a above

Once you have submitted your information you may decide to order
Done For You Traffic before your setup has actually been completed.

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When the traffic order form asks you where you would like your traffic
sent, just enter http://DoneForYouSetup.com.

This will signal our traffic department to insert the correct optin page
for you.

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STEP #5 Get Targeted Traffic


(2 Minutes)

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You will see your optin page image in the left column, below and the “Bridge” page image to its right.

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You can always come back and change the optin page, and you can also
select which products to promote, and in what order.

Now you are at the “Get Traffic” order form as shown below.

If either Step #1 or #2 in the image below are not automatically filled out for
you, just click the appropriate button and make your selection.

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When all of the above steps have been completed, see the image
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Now, tick the “Completion” box as indicated in the image below.

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Notice the image below shows the box on the QuickStart check list
has been “checked” showing this step has been completed.

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Congratulations! You have completed the steps


necessary to get your online business up and running!

Click here to return to the Table of Contents

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