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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

Uploading products to Google Base


The previous section showed you how to submit one product to Google Base. If you have 10 or fewer products to submit, then that method is probably the fastest. If you have more than 10 products to submit, then you might want to expend the extra effort of uploading them all at once.

Getting ready

Before you try to upload multiple products, you should go through the aforementioned procedure for placing a single product on a shopping site. Doing that first will ensure that you have opened the required Google account and that you understand the structure of Google Product Search.

Note

Before trying this procedure, complete the previous procedure at least once.

How to do it...

After logging in to Google Base, you will need to map product attributes from Magento to Google Base. This ensures that Magento's price shows up in Google's price, Magento's description shows up in Google's description, and so on. Then, you will upload the products.

Let's begin with entering...