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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

Chapter 4. Making the Sale by Optimizing Product Pages

When shoppers land on a product page, you want that page to present the product in the best possible way. The product page should entice, inform, and entertain your shoppers.

There are several things you can do to optimize product pages for selling. In this chapter, we will look at these techniques:

  • Add custom options

  • Add videos, links, and other HTML to product pages

  • Optimize product images

  • Tell a story using product images

  • Change the layout of a product page

Adding custom options

In Magento, a custom option is a field that enables your customer to specify something that he/she wants customized. For example, suppose you sell sports trophies that can be engraved with the name of the event and the winning team then you would add a custom option to that product, where the shopper enters the text to engrave. If you offer a style of shirt in different sizes and each size is a different product with its own stock number, then that is a configurable...