Nowadays it’s really trendy to optimize websites for mobile devices. We do our utmost to let Magento store owners be in step with the times. After great success of the iPhone Theme for Magento we are glad to introduce a new mobile module which is available with 50% discount right now.

The Mobile Order Tracking Magento extension from aheadWorks will help you express caring attitude towards your clients. Undoubtedly, it will improve your customer service and enhance the level of customer satisfaction.

With Mobile Order Tracking, your customers can track the shipment & payment statuses all the way through the delivery process using mobile devices or desktop computers. They can get updated information about their orders at any moment.

Now it’s so easy to track orders. Your clients get the real-time access to the information without logging-in to your web store. It’s really convenient. The customers receive a completely protected link by email. Following it they get admission to the details of shipment & payment statuses via mobile phones or PC’s.

Moreover, Mobile Order Tracking Magento extension gives the opportunity to check shipment & payment statuses from your Magento store easily and quickly. Your customers have to enter only their order ID and email address.

Cater to your clientele. Pleasantly surprise your customers with new possibilities. The Mobile Order Tracking Magento extension will give them a positive experience and encourage future purchases.

Hurry up and get it now! The 50% OFF price is only available for a limited time.

As you already might know, on February 1, 2012 Magento announced the end-of-life of Magento Professional.

Here is the quote from an article posted on the official Magento blog:”Following an extensive review of our current solutions and projected customer needs, we are making an important change: we are phasing out the Magento Professional Edition.

While Magento Professional was embraced by a significant number of merchants, we have seen much greater demand for our Enterprise and new Enterprise Premium offerings.”

aheadWorks won’t phase out its Magento PE extensions

aheadWorks, on its part, wants to assure all our Magento Professional customers that we are not going to phase out the PE extensions. We will continue to work with our Professional customers and provide them with the best eCommerce solutions and custom support.

If customers running PE-based stores see the value in upgrading to Magento Enterprise or downgrading to Community editions, we are happy to offer a 50% and 25% discount correspondingly for all our Magento extensions and Themes.

All you have to do is contact us and get a personal coupon code.

We are just about to release our new Magento extension which will help your customers easily track their orders from their mobile devices as well as PC’s. Our QA department has already tested it carefully and the extension is on the final stage of preparing for final release.

Now we are looking for some volunteers from the Magento community to finalize our tests. Every volunteer will get a significant discount after the extension official release.

If you run Magento CE 1.5+ or PE/EE 1.11 and have DHL, FedEx or UPS installed and configured, please contact Peter Samoilov at samoilov@aheadworks.com for further details.

A study done by the Association of Sales Executives revealed that the majority of sales happen after the follow-ups. With the Follow Up Email extension, you can make the emails automatically sent to customers on any event – abandoned cart, order obtained certain status, customer added product to wishlist, etc. This indispensable tool will help you win more sales and always stay in close touch with your consumers. Since the latest update of Follow Up Email, you can specify a tracking code for every rule and analyze the efficiency of your follow-ups in Google Analytics. Today we are excited to release Follow Up Email v.3.3.4 with the following bug fixes: Error on running cron Emails sending improvements Newsletter template disappears from FUE rules if it has been changed Minor bug fixes

Learn more about the extension features and play with the Follow Up Email demo on the product page.

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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Large list of email addresses doesn’t mean efficient email marketing building. You can send newsletters to thousands of your subscribers but only a few open them.

We use Advanced Newsletter + MailChimp for our email marketing purposes. The Advanced Newsletter extension allows us to segment our subscribers and send them the information they are interested in only. MailChimp is very cool and useful email marketing service which lets us to successfully send our campaigns as well as thoroughly analyze them afterwards.

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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.

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

See the extension in work on the On Sale product page.

The year 2011 is over but the Magento Connect research conducted by aheadWorks goes on and on. As I stated in my previous post, the year 2011 was highly successful for Magento and Magento Community. Let’s hope the new 2012 will bring even more joyful events to both Magento developers and merchants. And now it’s high time to check the Magento Connect statistics for December.

In terms of growth, the extensions for Social & Marketing integration (+17 in comparison with November), Social (+14), Automation (+18), and Order Management (+10) are the leading ones. This way, the extensions for the Social & Marketing integration are ranking first for the second time in a row. All these useful tools provide Magento store owners with the new tools to improve their stores functionality & usability, and increase their revenue.

In total, the overall number of all the extensions in Magento Connect is 5877.

aheadWorks is looking forward to continue the research and we’ll be back in February 2012 to see the results for the first month of 2012.