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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

Choosing the social networking site


Social networking sites can offer another way to connect with potential customers or another way to waste your time and get ignored. Choosing the right network and sending the right kind of content can help make your networking successful. By successful, we mean driving traffic to your Magento store.

In this section, we will briefly describe some of the more popular social networking sites. We will also look at how other businesses are using these sites to increase their profits.

When comparing social networks, the most important thing is not what features the network has, but how well its features fit into your store's and your customer's interactions.

Twitter

Twitter might be a good choice for keeping in touch with your customers if:

  • You are highly mobile

  • Your customers are highly mobile

  • Your customers are interested in frequent, short updates from your business

Twitter messages, or tweets, are text-only. They are limited to 140 characters. This has several...