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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 5. Increasing the Sale

Most store owners don't want their customers to buy products that the customers don't want. "Buyer's remorse" can lead to returned products and customers with bad feelings. However, we do want our customers to buy everything that they want. In other words, we want to maximize our sales using techniques that are both honest and effective.

Magento offers several techniques that we can use to maximize sales:

  • Upselling with "You may also be interested in"

  • Make additional sales with related products

  • Make additional sales with custom options

  • Offer cross-sells in the shopping cart

  • Offer quantity discounts

  • Offer free shipping

Each of these techniques is described below.

Upselling

In Magento, an upsell is a product that you would like your customer to buy, instead of the one that the customer is viewing. For example, suppose a customer is viewing a basic, hand-cranked coffee grinder; an upsell would be a more elaborate, expensive coffee grinder. Magento puts upsells at the bottom...