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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

Customizing transactional e-mails: Enable customers to opt into receiving newsletter


The newsletter module in Magento is enabled by default. However, if you don't see the newsletter options, then you might have disabled it by accident. Here is how to enable the module.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Log in to your site's backend or Administrative Panel.

  2. 2. Select System | Configuration.

  3. 3. From the left menu bar, select Advanced.

  4. 4. For Mage_Newsletter, select Enable.

  5. 5. Click on the Save Config button.

How it works...

When someone creates an account on your site, they will have the ability to opt into receiving the newsletter. Enabling the Mage_Newsletter setting creates the checkbox that you see in the following screenshot:

Enabling the newsletter also places the newsletter subscribe block on your site. By default, this block appears in the left column:

However, if you use a layout that doesn't show the left column, then you might want to move this block to the right column which is the subject of one of...