Year 2012 didn’t fade into obscurity and be sure we didn’t cover up the results of the year and its accomplishments. Let’s open the calendar and take a look at milestones that defined the past 12 months for aheadWorks team. Amazing thing – this “apocalyptical” leap year turned out to be really successful and rich in pleasant events for us and our partners and customers.

As one of the leading providers of Magento extensions, aheadWorks joined the conferences in the USA, Germany, France, Ukraine, the UK and Poland. In most of them we were entitled to Silver Sponsorship.

We are not used to rest on laurels and 2012 proved it right. As many as 9 new extensions were released, including your favorite One Click Checkout and Magento Affilate. A lot of existing extensions were updated as well as 6 significant themes that are compatible with Magento CE v. 1.6.0.0 and v.1.7.0.0.

We are also proud of a new service, aheadCommerce, an innovative solution for creating tablet storefronts, released in 2012.

To complete the picture of the previous year, we display the Top-10 bestselling aheadWorks extensions of 2012. This top-listing also includes the quantity and quality of extensions feedback, written by our customers. The most interesting reviews accompany the modules below.

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If for some reason you have marked December 11, 2012 in the calendar, but now rack your brains trying to recall the event, I will help you out.

Last week I announced the release of the Follow Up Email 3.5 version for today and leaked some of its new features. It turned out, we outdid ourselves and came up with more updates than first planned. I guess it’s not bad, huh? As far as Follow Up Email 3.5 is so awaited, let’s refer to its core right away.

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Do you need to be fully aware of customer behavior in your store to react accordingly? Sure, you do! That’s why it is a wise decision of yours to install or plan to download the Follow Up Email extension which is a powerful auto-responder and customer relationship tool to keep track of your customers automatically on an ongoing basis.

Your growing expectations towards Follow Up Email motivate us to constantly upgrade this extension until, perhaps, it becomes perfect enough to bring you 100% revenue growth per month We are now one step closer to this goal, updating Follow Up Email to 3.5 version. Its official release is scheduled for December 11, 2012, but I am unable to remain silent and prevent news leak from happening.

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Today we are glad to introduce you the renewed User Guide for the Follow Up Email Magento module, a great customer relationship tool. We updated the manual for this extension and described all new core features implemented since 3.1.1 version.

Besides general settings and examples of follow-up emails creating, you will find out how to set up Google Analytics to analyze the efficiency of your follow-ups, and how to better organize your notifications sending.

Download the new Follow Up Email User Guide from the product page!

P.S. By the way, the User Guide for what aheadWorks extension are you short of?

I hope you all know our Follow Up Email Magento extension, a powerful auto-responder. Since the 3.3 version, this customer relationship tool allows generating coupons automatically and inserting them in follow-ups. So you can send discounts to customers who abandoned their shopping carts as well.

I decided to find out how effective using such coupons was. I contacted one Magento-based store owner (he did not wish to be identified) who ran Follow Up Email and asked him to share abandoned carts statistics with us. I was really impressed by the results!

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Target marketing can be the key to business success. But what’s the secret? Divide and conquer.

This simple idea underlies the target marketing. Break the market into segments and concentrate your marketing efforts on the key group of potential customers.

Today we release the aheadWorks Magento extensions that were modified for you to get the best results in your target marketing. With their help, your promotions and sales become easier and more cost-effective.

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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.