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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


There are many events which trigger an e-mail from Magento to your customer:

  • When the customer places an order, Magento sends a confirmation e-mail.

  • When someone creates an account on your site, Magento sends a welcome e-mail.

  • When you update an order in Magento with shipping information, Magento sends the customer a shipping update, and many more.

Note

All of these e-mails must be customized for your store! In the default Magento installation, these e-mails use "Magento Demo Store" as the name of the store. They use (800) DEMO-STORE as the phone number of the store. And, they include e-mail addresses that point to the makers of Magento. If you don't customize these e-mails, then you will be sending confusing and possibly embarrassing messages to your customers.

There are two ways to customize these e-mails. One way is to edit the template files that are supplied with Magento. You can find directions on how to do this on the Web. However, if you just edit the...