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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 basic landing page


This procedure will show you how to create a basic landing page with static text. In Magento, we call this a CMS page. The page will look like the following:

Getting ready

Before you begin creating a landing page like the previous image, you should:

  1. 1. Prepare any graphics used in the page.

  2. 2. Be prepared to upload the graphics to your site.

  3. 3. Note any links that you want to include on the page.

  4. 4. Write the text for the page. A plain text editor will work fine.

  5. 5. Decide the URL you want for the page. In our example, we used http://brew-me-a-cup.com/gourmet-coffee-in-bed.

  6. 6. Point your online ad to the URL for the landing page.

How to do it...

Let's begin by uploading the graphics to your site:

  1. 1. Launch your FTP application, and point it at your Magento site.

  2. 2. Navigate to the /media directory.

  3. 3. Upload the graphics to the /media directory.

Creating the page:

  1. 1. Log in to your site's backend or Admin Panel.

  2. 2. Select CMS | Manage Pages. The Manage Pages page displays...