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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

Adding a products block to a landing page


In the preceding example, we added products to a simple landing page. To do this, we:

  1. 1. Created a product category just for that landing page.

  2. 2. Added the three products that you see to that category.

  3. 3. Added a block to the page that displays all of the products in that category.

Each of these is covered in a subsection below. You can add other blocks to a Magento CMS page. For example, the Search and Related Products blocks. We will use the Category Product block as our example.

How to do it...

Creating a product category for the landing page:

  1. 1. Log in to your site's administrative interface.

  2. 2. Select Catalog | Manage Categories.

  3. 3. Under the Default category, add a new subcategory.

  4. 4. For the category Name, you might want to include the words "Landing Page" or something similar. When you are assigning products to this category, you will see this name.

  5. 5. For Is Active, select No. This will prevent the category from being displayed in the navigation...