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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

Time for action – making a plan


This quick guide will help you create a monthly plan for perpetual improvement of your website. The key is to be as efficient as possible and take up as little time as possible, but at the same time, making sure that nothing is being neglected.

  1. Write down a list of all the different marketing activities you are involved in and, next to that, the frequency with which you think you should be doing them. Next to that, also write the amount of time (in hours) you think it will take.

  2. Write down a list of all the optimization activities that you expect to engage in, and (like you did in the previous point) the frequency and expected time you will take for each activity.

  3. Now do exactly the same as the previous step, but this time, as an estimate for adding new content. This includes articles, categories, and products.

  4. Now estimate the amount of time that you will set aside for customer service and the handling of orders (which you will probably be doing quite frequently...