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Welcome New iPhone Theme v.1.6 Compatible with iOS 6!

October 16th, 2012 1 comment

It’s not a secret that if you want to achieve better results in business, and especially in ecommerce, you need to keep up with the times! The statistic shows interesting figure – 79% of large online retailers still don’t have a mobile optimized site.

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Take modern trends into account and install iPhone Theme! This Magento extension automatically detects the OS used for browsing your website and switches your store to the required theme desktop or mobile.

Today we are glad to release iPhone Theme v.1.6 with iPad detect option!

Besides, the following bugs have been fixed in iPhone Theme v.1.6:

  • iOS6 compatibility
  • Google Analytic integration issue
  • Full Page Cache improvements (EE)
  • twice showing “Minimum order amount” message
  • problem with “Category display mode”
  • slow adding of product to shopping cart

Find the extension demo and complete list of features on the iPhone Theme page.

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Six Simple Steps for Developing Marketing Plan (part 2)

October 12th, 2012 No comments

As I promised last week, we’ll go through the last three simple steps that act as a framework for developing your sales and marketing process.

Convert sales

Let’s pretend you’ve got enough traffic to your site. Another step is to convert visitors into paying customers, as you won’t get any profit from watchers. There are some tricks you can use to increase transaction amounts and reduce the number of abandoned carts.

Shopping carts.Shopping cart gives you the ability to use upsell strategy to increase transaction amounts. Upsell offers are most effective when they are closely related to the current order. You can also use targeted campaigns. Segment customers into groups and prepare campaign for each of it. One of the most effective campaign is to offer a discount on the products that customer was viewing.

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Six Simple Steps for Developing Marketing Plan (part 1)

October 4th, 2012 2 comments

Inspired with the “The Perfect Customer Lifecycle” white paper from Infusionsoft, I decided to provide you with the simple six steps that act as a framework for developing your sales and marketing process. Don’t miss a chance to increase your sales and get a greater profit. Let’s dig a little deeper into each of the steps.

Entice traffic

Consumers became more adapted to the modern world full of advertising. Paid advertising is not the key to the traffic to your website anymore. Now you have to create valuable content for earning traffic and attracting visitors.

After you’ve created interesting content, you’re facing another problem: how would people find it?

Search engine optimization.SEO is a technique which helps search engines to find and rank your site higher than the millions of other sites. The higher search engine ranking, the more people will see your site.

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October 4th, 2012 No comments

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We apologize for this inconvenience, and thank you for your patience and understanding. You still can use our forum!

In case of urgent need, you can use our support service directly via helpdesk@aheadworks.com

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aheadWorks Newsletter – September 2012

October 3rd, 2012 No comments

As usual, I gathered the most interesting events of September in monthly newsletter.

It’s always pleasant to share our experience with the community. This month we prepared a Magento optimization PDF guide based on the information provided by our Lead Developer. The document is in free access for all our readers. Download it now to learn how to optimize Magento performance without any code modifications.

I cannot resist temptation to share a secret with you! Soon in October, the totally upgraded AJAX Cart Pro will be released! You will get a fully customizable pop-up window with ability to show related products, images and any other data! New AJAX Cart Pro will support all custom themes if they meet Magento programming practices. Remember, if your support period is active, you can download the latest version of the extension absolutely for free!

As you might expect, it’s not the only thing I wanted to tell you today. Below you’ll find the details of a a special offer, the most popular posts from our Blog and the list of updated extensions.

Limited Offer

Successful business, endless number of happy and satisfied customers, perfect loyalty and affiliate programs – that’s the wish of each business owner! Open the referral opportunities for your business and create your own reward system with our Points and Rewards.

You can get this great Magento module with 15% discount! Enter the following coupon code at checkout:

PROMO15OFF

Hurry up as the offer is limited and active from October 3 to October 11.


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Blog for Magento – Embody Your Strategic Content Marketing Plan

September 28th, 2012 No comments

Content marketing is a technique of creating relevant and valuable content to attract and engage target audience with the objective of turning even part of this audience into customers.

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With Magento Blog, you can create an interactive two-way communication platform to provide official information on your store news, upcoming products, promotions, and get customers’ feedback.

Today we are glad to release Blog 1.2 with the following issues fixed:

  • unapproved comments were counted
  • incorrect “Date Updated” field for default blog post
  • filtering by store in “Categories” grid
  • filtering by fields “Poster”, “Created”,” Status” were leading to SQL error in “Comments” grid
  • locale improvements

New version of the Blog extension is enhanced with functionality that will help lead new visitors to your web store: now you can specify meta keywords and meta description for blog main page.

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Who Bought This Also Bought v.1.4 is out!

September 20th, 2012 No comments
Who Bought This Also Bought
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Stimulate your customers to buy more with the Who Bought This Also Bought extension! Not only does such contextual display of additional content make your store more intelligent, it gives your customers a genuine idea of other products that might be useful to them.

Today we are glad to release the Who Bought This Also Bought Magento extension v.1.4!

In 1.4 version of this Magento module, the issue with orders created from backend was solved.

The latest version of Who Bought This Also Bought gives you an ability to display block with related products on the “Shopping Cart” page.

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