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PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Overview of this book

PrestaShop is an open source, e-commerce solution which allows you to build a highly functional, flexible, and attractive online store.In"PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide" you will learn how to set up, extend, and personalize your own online shop. Newly updated to focus on PrestaShop 1.5, this book features descriptive and practical tutorials on everything you need to make a splash in the world of e-commerce.If you want to start selling your products online but are a bit daunted about shipping, tax, and designing your online presence, then this is the book for you.This practical book starts by showing you how to download, install, and configure your own shop. Using a step-by-step approach, this book takes you through the processes required to create a fully functioning online shop with the potential to make you serious money.With distinct chapters on the methods required to make your products stand out to your customers better, this title will enable you to create and customize a vivid, online presence to get people visiting your store and buying your goods.Targeting further sales, this book then shows you how to develop a targeted search engine optimization campaign to get new customers and keep existing customers returning. From here you will learn how to tackle complicated tax rates and shipping costs efficiently and with less hassle to ensure your customers are satisfied with your service.If you want to start your own e-commerce business using PrestaShop, then this book will show you how.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
PrestaShop 1.5 Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Pop Quiz Answers
Index

Perpetual analysis, improvement, and marketing


The key theme here is in the word perpetual, which means continuing without interruption. Marketing, optimizing, and improving your website is not a one-off job. It has to be done on an ongoing basis—it is never finished. That's the bad news. The good news is that it doesn't have to take long, just so long as it is done on a regular basis. And as your website becomes more established, I would suggest that the amount of time you spend on optimization be decreased, as long as the frequency is maintained. This is good news and sits well with our plan for a passive income.

First of all, let's look at how we can measure the performance of our PrestaShop site.

Analyzing statistics

In Chapter 5, Tools, Newsletters, Extra Income, and Statistics, we set up the PrestaShop statistics modules as well as installed Google Analytics. Now we will look at how you can use them to understand some areas for change and improvement in your PrestaShop store. It is also...