Now that you are frothing at the mouth in anticipation of all the great new business you can attract to your Web site, it’s time to get going. Here’s how
you can do exactly that:

1. Click WebSite on the Navigation bar of the Office Live Home page. The Page Manager page opens.
2. Click adManager from the Navigation bar. If this is your first foray into adManager, the Welcome screen of the adManager Wizard opens (see Figure 6-10).
3. Click Start to continue. The second screen of the adManager Account Creation Wizard appears, asking you to fill in your vital statistics — including your name, address, and e-mail address. This should be a fairly easy window to deal with; the information is already filled in (based on the info you provided when signing up for your Office Live account). Feel free to tweak it if necessary.
4. Check that your name, address, and e-mail address are correct and click OK to continue. The Create Login Information screen of the adManager Account Creation Wizard appears (see Figure 6-11). If you click OK at any time and get an error message instead of moving to the next wizard screen, it means you forgot to fill in some information. Apologize profusely (or not), fill in the missing information, and click OK again. When you move on to the next screen, you’ve filled in all the information correctly.
5. Create your adCenter account by supplying your login information. Supply a username, password, select a secret question from the dropdown list — and then supply a super-secret answer to the super-secret question.
6. Click OK to continue. The Enter Payment Information screen of the adManager Account Creation Wizard opens.
7. Fill in your credit-card information and click OK to continue. For many of you, this is the most terrifying part of the entire wizard. Be brave. You’re charged $5 to sign up for adCenter. You aren’t charged for anything else until you have created an ad and someone has actually clicked it. In addition, you set a budget so you aren’t hit with a large, unexpected bill in the future.
8. Click the check box accepting the adCenter terms (on the Terms and Conditions screen of the adManager Account Creation wizard) and then click Finish. If you don’t play by Microsoft’s rules and click the check box, you can’t play the adCenter game. After a moment or two of nail-biting anticipation, adManager’s Ad Settings window appears — and you’re ready to start creating an ad.

Figure 6-10:
The Welcome screen of the adManager Wizard.

Figure 6-11:
Creating an adCenter account.

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