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Nov 2, 2005

If a person were to endeavor to try their first online affiliate/dropshipping business, and the person knows what they want to sell:

1. What is the most proper way to ask a business like; for example, a manufacturer of deer hunting guns, if they are willing to provide the datafeed thing that seems to be necessary?

2. Are there "canned" programs available that one can use to receive the datafeed?

3. Is it even possible to operate an online affiliate/dropshipping business wherein the billing AND the shipping are performed by the manufacturer/company whose products you are selling?

4. Having already obained a domain name, a hosting service, a website (simple XHTML and CSS, no programming like PHP), and some very basic knowledge of SEO, what exactly are the additional mechanics needed?

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