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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 new website/store/store view


In this section, you will create a new website. In the next section, you will put that website under a different URL on your server.

How to do it....

  1. 1. From the administrative interface, select System | Manage Stores.

  2. 2. Click on the Create Website button. The New Website page displays. There are only three fields on this page that you need to enter.

  3. 3. Enter a Name for the website. This is the name that you will see in the administrative interface. Your customers will never see this name. It should be meaningful to you.

  4. 4. Enter a Code for the website. It must consist of only letters and numbers, with no spaces. This is the code that Magento will use for the website.

  5. 5. The Sort Order determines the order of this website in drop-down lists.

  1. 6. Save the website. You are returned to the Manage Stores page.

  2. 7. Click on the Create Store button.

  3. 8. For Website, select the website that you just created.

  4. 9. Give the store a Name. Only you will see this name.

  5. 10...