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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

Tagging


Tags are descriptive words that your customers, or you, assign to a product. A tag is usually a single word. While customers can add tags to a product, the store administrator must always approve the tags.

Customers add tags to a product and see the tags assigned to a product at the bottom of the product's page:

Customer tags do not appear immediately on the product page. They must be approved by the store administrator. The customer will receive a message that the tags have been accepted for moderation:

Later in the chapter, we will cover how to approve and reject tags.

When the first product in your store has been tagged, a tag cloud will appear. This tag cloud gives shoppers another way of finding products that interest them:

How to do it...

Let's have a look at enabling or disabling tagging:

  1. 1. From the administrative interface, select System | Configuration.

  2. 2. In the upper-left corner, from the drop-down list, select your store.

  3. 3. From the left menu, under ADVANCED, select Advanced...