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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

Quantity discounts


In Magento, a discount given for buying more than one of a product is called tiered pricing. In the example below, you can see there are three price tiers:

The first tier is for buying 1 or 2 pounds at $14 per pound. The second tier is for buying 3 to 5 pounds at $11.90 per pound. The third tier is for buying 6 or more pounds at $10.50 per pound.

In our example store, the preceding tiers apply to any customer who visits the site without logging in. You can also create different pricing tiers for different groups of customers. This requires that the customer log in. Once the customer logs in, Magento (or you) can place that customer into a group. In our example store, we have pricing tiers for customers who have not logged in (anonymous visitors) and for customers who have created an account on our site and logged in:

When a customer creates an account in our example store and logs in, he/she sees this on the product page. Note the welcome message for the logged-in customer...