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Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook

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Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Magento 1.3 Sales Tactics Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Ideas for static pages


This section describes some ideas for static pages. Some of these, such as the About pages, are part of almost every legitimate online store. Others are fun ideas that can draw traffic to your store. Wherever possible, include links to your categories or products in these pages.

Fun pages

If a fun page is shared by people who like it, then it can become highly ranked in search engines. This helps to bring visitors to your site.

If you're selling products made in an exotic country, then educate and intrigue your reader by educating them about the exoticness of the country. Tie it back to your products by mentioning how your products reflect the exotic and unique character of that place.

You can search video sharing sites, such as www.youtube.com, for funny videos that have your type of product in them. For example, our demonstration store sells coffee. A search for funny coffee videos yields a video clip from the classic Charlie Chaplin film, Modern Times.

Note

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