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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

Enabling customers to publish their wish list with an RSS feed


There are two parts to this process. First, you must enable customers to publish their wish list with an RSS feed. Then, you must encourage the customer to send the RSS feed to his/her friends.

However, the question then becomes, "Why would anyone subscribe to a customer's RSS feed for their wish list?"

A customer can share his/her wish list. In the following screenshot, notice the Share Wishlist button:

When a customer clicks this button, the customer is taken to a page where he/she can send a message to the person with whom he/she wants to share the wishlist:

Notice the checkbox that adds an RSS link to the message. The first procedure below places that checkbox there.

Now we know why someone would subscribe to your customer's wishlist: because your customer sent them a message asking them to subscribe. However, another question you might want to answer is "How will your customers know that they can invite their friends to subscribe...