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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

Custom options


InChapter 4, Making the Sale by Optimizing Product Pages we showed you how to use custom options to offer additional services and options for a product. As an example, we showed an espresso machine where the customer can add their initials to the machine. You can see that custom option immediately below the MORE VIEWS section:

In this example, the custom option was used to add value and expense to a product. You can also use the custom option to offer additional items. Our example here is a little different than the one inChapter 4. We've added extra filter cups as another option. That is, we are using the custom option to offer accessories and spare parts for the main product.

Now let's compare this approach to related products, which is covered in the previous section. Related products are displayed in a separate block and that block always has the same title, RELATED PRODUCTS. Custom options are displayed in the same block as the main product. This shows the shopper that...