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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 CMS page explaining conditions for becoming a wholesale customer


InChapter 3, underCreate a basic landing page, we showed you how to create a CMS page. If you are going to attract wholesale customers, then consider creating a CMS page to explain the process of becoming a wholesale customer.

How to do it...

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

  2. 2. Select CMS | Manage Pages. The Manage Pages page displays. A list of the CMS pages (or "static pages") in your store should appear on this page.

  3. 3. Select the Add New Page button.

  4. 4. The Edit Page will display. The General Information tab is selected for you.

  1. 5. Enter a Page Title. This will appear in the visitor's browser title bar. For example, you could use How to Become a Wholesale Customer.

  2. 6. Enter an SEF URL Identifier. This will be added to your domain name to form the URL of the page. For example, you could use wholesale-customers, so the URL of our page will be http://brew-me-a-cup.com/wholesale-customers.

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