Hi there. Here’s another post in our Store of the Month series. Today I’m talking to Brian M. Balster, Director of Marketing at MorterSupplements.

Who: http://www.mortersupplements.com
http://www.unitedstatesofvitamins.com

What: These stores sell alkalizing supplements, vitamins, minerals, and herbal tinctures.

Where: Monticello, IA, United States

Q: How long have you been working with Magento, and what attracted you to the platform?

A: I have been running my store for 6 years already. We previously were with X-cart and wanted a more robust software system. We researched many of the popular ecommerce options and Magento seemed to be the most customizable. So we just started fresh with Magento.

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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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One of my jobs here at aheadWorks is to highlight our clients’ stores and listen to what vendors say about Magento extensions they have chosen to organize their day-to-day operations.

This time I had a chat with Nicolò Bottazzi, the founder of a web store who two years ago faced the necessity to move from a custom platform to Magento as more reliable and stable platform.

Who: http://www.salustore.com

What: Salustore is an Italian wellness store that has been operating since 2000 and has a strong reputation for the sale of haircare products. It sells more than 200 different products.

Where: Bergamo, Italy

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Hello and welcome to our monthly section ‘Store of the month’! These posts are meant to give all of our blog readers a closer look at the extensions used by Magento merchants in their day-to-day operations and how the modules help them solve business needs and requirements.

This time I offer a sneak peek at one of aheadWorks awesome clients’ store – ClickGolf. Alex has submitted his shop on our Forum in the Showroom section and we found it’s a good example of a Magento store running aheadWorks extensions.

Who: http://www.clickgolf.de/

What: Click Golf is a popular and successful on-line golf shop, which offers excellent service and a big choice of golf clubs, golf sets, golf clothing and bags from the top manufacturers.

Where: München, Germany

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Hi there! It’s a perfect day for Magento store owners! Each month we highlight a store from our clients base and listen to what vendors say about Magento extensions they have chosen to organize a proper work and make their customers’ experience a smooth one. This is one of the most important things the store owner needs to accomplish when selling anything online, whether that includes services or products.

If you would like to share your site with Magento society, please contact us at korol@aheadworks.com and provide us with the details of your website.

Today we are talking to Raul Zendejas, who invited us to view his website mjrsales.com. MJR sales is a warehouse store known for buying and selling in the discount business for almost 20 years.

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Today we’d like to announce that a new section is now live in our Blog. So, what can you expect from this section? We’re going to talk to our amazing clients, go behind the scenes with their Magento stores, post their experience in using aheadWorks extensions, spill secrets on customization, and much more. We’re going to describe pros and cons of the extensions they use, their impact on the sales, thus promoting the stores, including backlinks and screen shots.

Want to boast about your store? So go ahead and let us help you promote your website. Send us an email at korol @ aheadworks.com and provide the store URL and a brief store description. We’ll look through your site and maybe your Magento store will be featured next month.

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Two days ago aheadWorks Co. gave an interview for one of the most popular blogs among Magento users and developers – design4magento. Today the interview has been published and you have a chance to know what secrets we have shared.