We continue our conversation with Steve Tallent, President at Beeyoutiful.com, who was one of the first adopters of Magento.
Be sure to read Part 1 of this interview where Steve describes the first years of using Magento and the positive changes happened in the past few years.
Q: What’s the most powerful extension/s for you and why?
A: Well, Z-Blocks has been a dream. We’re exploring new ways to use it all of the time. Right now we’re looking at getting the RSS Reader to bring in multiple feeds, from our blogs, our Forums, our Facebook page, put them into Z-Blocks and start displaying them in different places, so we have dynamic content to engage our customers and encourage them to interact with us in those settings.
We also have on tap to try to get polls into Z-Blocks, so that we can schedule the old poll to go offline and a new one to come online weekly without us having to be there at that time to make that change. Z-Blocks is SO powerful.
Although I’ve had it for a long while and the shine has worn off and I’m not quite as enamored as I once was, the Review Rotator is a powerful tool. Marketers know just how powerful reviews are, and having them out in a sidebar where they might attract some attention to a previously untried product, is invaluable. The extension allows you to apply a filter so that you don’t get the really horrible reviews rotating through either. There aren’t very many, but you know there are those people that just like to complain.
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Once a month we feature our partners and their Magento stores on the aheadWorks Blog. Meet Steve Tallent, President at Beeyoutiful.com, who was one of the first adopters of Magento.
Steve will tell us about the first frustrating years of using Magento, the money he has spent to get a theme that was breaking with every upgrade. He also talks over the positive changes happened in the past few years and describes the extension of his dream.
Already intrigued? Keep on reading to know the lack of what extension can make his staff literally cry.
Who: http://www.beeyoutiful.com/
What: Beeyoutiful.com sells vitamins and other nutritional supplements, as well as some natural skin and hair products.
Where: Centerville, TN, USA
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Advanced Search is a perfect solution for search through Magento-based stores. This extension replaces an external search engine Sphinx so search works much faster, the server load is decreased, and the results become more trustworthy.
Some of the key improvements in Advanced Search v.1.1 include:
- CMS pages index
- Support of customer search terms
- Sphinx 2.0.3 compatibility
Also the following bug has been fixed:
- Incorrect attributes source
See the Advanced Search comparison table and play with the extension demo on the product page.
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The On Sale Magento extension allows you to attract customers’ attention to any product by adding visually-appealing labels.
Only 10 items are left? New product is out? Inform your customers about it. You can specify two different label images and call-to-action text for each item on the Product and Category pages, and also set the number of days for the label to disappear.
Today we are excited to release the new 2.3 version of On Sale which is compatible with the Ajax Catalog aheadWorks extension.
The following bugs have been fixed in On Sale v.2.3:
- Issues with multiple inquiries in database
- Minor bug fixes
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See the extension in work on the On Sale product page.
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Automatic Related Products 2 is an extremely flexible Magento extension which allows you to forget about outdated way of adding related products.
The extension enables you to define the rules for related products and offer people alternatives to the current product automatically! Create dynamic rules according to a certain item to make the related products block more engaging and relevant to people who browse your store.
Automatic Related Products 2 v.2.1 is packed with these new features:
- Ability to randomize displayed products
- Ability to save edited block as a new one
- The product isn’t displayed if it is in cart or wishlist
- Mass delete action in the backend
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The new 2.1 version of Automatic Related Products 2 contains the following bug fixes:
- W3C Validation error
- Impossible to disable product block from the block edit page
- Cart item attributes (‘Price in Cart’, ‘Qty in Cart’, ‘Row total in Cart’) were removed
- Locale file does not impact labels
- Minor code & CSS fixes
Visit the product page to see the new features in Automatic Related Products 2 demo.
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Now through January 9, get 15% off all Magento extensions at aheadWorks.com. Save on our latest releases from Custom Stock Display to Product Images Slider, Advanced Search and 50+ modules for your Magento store.
Just use the coupon code in the shopping cart during checkout.
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On behalf of everyone at aheadWorks, I’d like to thank you for being with us. Your ideas, feature requests and sometimes even questions inspire us to update existing and develop new best-in-class solutions for eCommerce business.
2011 was another booming year for aheadWorks. It is particularly heartening that this year we’ve launched thirteen new extensions, and the leading ones among them are the well-liked Points & Rewards, Image Slider and Group Deals.
This year aheadWorks has become the first provider of Magento Professional extensions on the market. 50+ aheadWorks modules are now available for any PE store. Moreover, we’re very excited to become a Magento Industry Silver partner joining the fastest-growing wave in the eCommerce market.
We’ve also launched a new pre-order system, which makes all Magento store owners able to order the upcoming extensions half price. For example, everyone had a chance to get Advanced Search and Custom Stock Display with 50% discount.
The achievements above are only just a start, a good start! We have many plans for 2012 
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