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Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By : John Horton
Book Image

Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook

By: John Horton

Overview of this book

VirtueMart is a premier eCommerce solution powered by Joomla!In Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook you will learn how to create a full-functioning and attractive eCommerce solution with VirtueMart. You will be shown how to install and configure VirtueMart, how to set-up and run your store day-to-day as well as configure and customize the look and feel of your store. With this book by your side, you will be able to overcome as problems setting up, administrating and customizing your eCommerce store! This book finishes with blueprint projects meaning that getting started with VirtueMart is even easier for the novice and aspiring site builder or developer. If you have always wanted to create a professional-looking store, but are worried about the complexity and difficulty involved, then this book is for you! With numerous recipes, practical tips and solutions Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook will take you through every step required to achieve eCommerce success.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building E-commerce Sites with VirtueMart Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up a campaign and testing it with VM Affiliate


Here's how it will all work when we are done:

  • Affiliate marketers looking for new and exciting products to sell find your website.

  • They see you have a generous commission structure and some good quality banners and promotional material.

  • They join your program, login to their affiliate control panel (powered by VM Affiliate) and use the tools and material to promote your products on their website.

  • Visitors come to your affiliates website and read glowing and informative information about your products. They click on a link and arrive on your website. If the visitor makes a purchase within a reasonable time period (definable by you) the affiliate is credited with the sale.

  • Affiliate very happy to make money and redoubles his efforts to sell more of your products.

Getting ready

To enable all this functionality is surprisingly simple. Think about a few things to prepare for this recipe.

  • Consider the way(s) you would like your affiliates to promote...