Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook

• Attract visitors by optimizing product pages for search engines
• Export products from your Magento store and place them on shopping sites, like Google Product Search and Pricewatch
• Create landing pages that drive customers to product pages
• Customize your store’s informative pages and decide what content to include on your store’s informative pages
• Add custom options to products and add videos, links, and other HTML to product pages
• Increase sales with related products and cross sells by offering quantity discounts and free shipping for specific conditions
• Calculate and display special pricing for products after they are added to the shopping cart
• Produce and send a newsletter and enable customers to create, publish, and send wish lists
• Determine which kind of social media is best for your business model and add “follow us” buttons for social media sites
• Manage reviews, ratings, and tags that are submitted by your customers and add polls to your storefront
• Create an international storefront with translations for store navigation, product descriptions, informative pages, and transaction emails
• Create a wholesale storefront for just your wholesale customers

Magento is a feature-rich, professional open source e-commerce solution that offers users complete flexibility and control over the look, content, and functionality of their online store. Although Magento provides users with the power to create dynamic e-commerce sites, it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and create sites that are tailored to your unique business needs.

This book gives you a hands-on experience on Magento, helping you increase your revenue by implementing proven sales tactics on your Magento site.

This book contains techniques to help you with each stage of selling to your customers: attracting visitors, driving them to your product pages, making the sale, increasing sales, engaging your customers, and more. It contains a powerful mix of techniques for increasing sales in your online storefront. Over thirty of the techniques are short and stand alone. A few are designed to be used together, such as the seven techniques in the chapter on creating an international storefront. Some techniques make creative use of Magento’s standard features. A few techniques combine Magento with other tools, such as social networking sites. All the techniques are explained in clear, step-by-step directions, with many screenshots. The book uses an example site for each technique, so that you can see exactly how it will affect your storefront. You can jump into the book at any point, or, work through it from beginning to end.

This practical book, packed with easy-to-flow recipes, tips, and tricks, will help you enhance your sales tactics and boost the sales of your Magento site

This book is written with the business owner in mind. Each of the recipes in the book supports a business objective, and is designed to increase the success of your Magento storefront. Magento beginners will find the recipes easy to follow. They are written in plain language. When special jargon is needed, it is clearly explained. The techniques are illustrated with many screenshots, showing you exactly what you must do. An example storefront is used throughout the book, so you can see exactly what effect each technique will have on your storefront. Most of these techniques stand alone, so you can jump into the book at any time and implement the techniques that are best for your storefront at this time.

If you are a Magento store owner or store designer who wants to boost sales, then this book is for you