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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

Creating a catalog price rule


Remember that a catalog price rule will apply to all the products that meet its criteria. After you create and apply this rule, it will affect your entire catalog (at least, the parts of your catalog that meet its criteria).

Getting ready

You probably want your catalog price rule to apply to only specific products. In our example, we want the rule to apply to only coffee products. All of our coffee products use the attribute set coffee-by-pound. We will filter our products by that attribute set, so that the catalog price rule affects only coffee products.

Before you create a catalog price rule, you must decide which products you want the rule to affect. Then, you must determine what those products have in common. Do they all have the same attribute set? Do their SKUs begin with the same characters? Are they all in the same category or categories? Investigate and write down the criteria that you will use to filter the products for your catalog price rule.

How to...