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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

Customer ratings


In Magento, you can give your customers the ability to rate a product on a scale of one to five stars. You can offer one or more criteria for the rating. As with reviews, you must approve each rating before it appears in your store.

In the following example, you can see that the Ethiopian Yrgacheffe Whole Bean coffee received a five-star review:

For a customer to see the ratings, he/she must go to the product page, and then click the Reviews link. This displays the Reviews page for that product:

Enable ratings

First, you must enable the ratings module so that readers can submit ratings for a product.

How to do it...

  1. 1. From the administrative interface, select System | Configuration.

  2. 2. In the upper-left corner, from the drop-down list, select your store.

  3. 3. From the left menu, under ADVANCED, select Advanced.

  4. 4. In the main window area, for Mage_Rating, select Enable.

  5. 5. Save the configuration.

Apply one of Magento's default rating scales

In this procedure, you will determine which...