ProStores Tips and Tutorials – One Take Media

Ever wish that you could direct your customer to search results for ‘blue funky widgets’ in your store?

You can! http://www.fs4sports.com/servlet/Categories?$catalog.keyword=cleats

Example:http://www.fs4sports.com/servlet/Categories?$catalog.keyword=cleats

Just change the address and the keyword and to your store and your keyword or phrase and you can!

Its been a while since I’ve blogged and even though the reasons are good, been very busy with projects, a lack of posts on a regular basis isn’t good.

So I’m going to be trying my best to write several times a month with good lists, tips and ProStores help.

To celebrate I’m offering to answer 1 ProStores question per person. This starts now 12-15-09 at 12 noon Est until 11:59 pm Est Thursday the 17th of 2009.

Questions must be submitted as a comment, you must include a link to your ProStores site as well as a valid e-mail so you can receive the notification that I answered your question.

E-mail questions cannot be accepted, you must post them as a comment and I will reply to them on the post.

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Thanks!
Matt

If your shipping promotions aren’t working since the upgrade you need to make sure you enter an End Date. If you don’t the promotion will not work.

If you want a promotion that doesn’t end just enter 1/1/2050 and that should work just fine.

Hope this helps!

Prostores users, heads up! ProStores will be migrating your store to a new data center on July 20, starting 11p.m. PDT (July 21, 2a.m. EDT)

1. use an external stylesheet.
2. put your external stylesheet in your templateSet images folder.
3. reference your images in your stylesheet like so: background:url(bg.jpg); – Using no paths.
4. Use ssml to reference your stylesheet in your header template. <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” title=”style” href=”$storeVersion.images['style.css']“/>

A few simple steps to reduce the shopping cart abandonment rate for your ProStores site.

Part 1:

1. If the checkout process is more than one page have some sort of signal (like a series of graphics) telling your customers how many steps there are and where they are in the process.
2. Have your SSL certificate’s security logo featured prominently on each page of the process
3. If you accept visa/mastercard/amex/discover, put their logos on the Payment Entry page.
4. Make your next/continue buttons stick out, rather than using the plain windows default buttons, but make sure they are consistent with your site’s overall look.

Part 2 soon!

These are three simple tips I’ve found that have helped increase traffic to each client site that I’ve applied them to.

1. On your Product List and Detail pages, use the H1 and B tags. On the List template find and wrap it with those two tags. By default H1 has styling applied to it from the browser, so depending on your site design you may want to add some styling to override the default. Example below.
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Welcome to the first post in a series of four.

Today’s post will be about Google Analytics filters and how to use them as well as some aspects that are unique to the ProStores/StoreFront environment.

What are filters? Just like on your Brita, filters strain out the unwanted. In the case of Google Analytics, filters can be set up to strain out unwanted information, but can also help to add more information that you can’t see by default.
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Hi all,

Here at One Take Media we have been busily working on a updated version of our current design!

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