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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

Enabling e-mail to a friend


Magento enables shoppers on your site to send e-mails to their friends about your products:

When the shopper clicks the Email to a Friend link, he/she is taken to a page where the shopper composes the e-mail:

The recipient will receive an e-mail with a link to the product and the shopper's message:

Notice that the message contains text that the shopper did not add. For example, the Welcome, Please look at... and Here is message: text. This text is in the e-mail template. You can customize that template for your store. You can change the text, add formatting, and add graphics.

How to do it...

Let's create a custom e-mail to a friend template. These directions are also found inChapter 7, underCustomize transactional e-mails.

  1. 1. In the admin interface, select System | Transactional Emails.

  2. 2. Select the Add New Template button. The New Email Template page displays:

  1. 3. From the Template drop-down list, select Send product to a friend.

  2. 4. From the Locale drop-down list,...