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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

Chapter 3. Driving Visitors to Your Product Pages

When shoppers land at your store, you want them to stay and shop. You can encourage them to explore your product pages using landing pages. A landing page is a visitor's first impression of your store. Ideally, you want the landing page to drive the visitor to one of your product pages.

Closely related to landing pages are "About" pages. These pages tell the visitor about your store. They can include a contact page, privacy notice, billing practices, company history, and more. These pages can reassure visitors about your business practices and make your store appear more legitimate.

Landing pages and about pages are related because you use the same tool to create them: Magento's CMS pages. Therefore, in this chapter, you will learn how to:

  • Customize Magento's default CMS pages

  • Create new CMS pages

  • Decide which About pages to include

  • Decide what content to include on About pages

Introduction

A landing page is not a product page. On a landing page...