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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 static block, and adding it to your catalog pages


A static block is a portable piece of HTML code that you can place anywhere in a page or site. You can put anything in a static block that you can put on a web page, if it fits the small space. Usually, you place a static block in the left or right column of a page. Sometimes you place it in a footer or header.

In our example, we will create a static block to inform shoppers of our wholesale program. However, you can use a static block for many other purposes such as to advertise sales, announce contests, feature products, and more.

How to do it...

Note

You are about to create a new theme. Your store's layout, terminology, color scheme, typestyles, and images are controlled by its theme. Creating an entirely new theme for your site is beyond the scope of this book. Covering that requires an entire book by itself such as theMagento Designer's Guide from Packt.

However, in this procedure, we will create a new theme with one file—the...