Magento-driven online stores
Official Magento blog announced more online stores on Magento. These are Seven Planet, Bracelets and Wall Bed Factory.
All above mentioned companies have recently switched to Magento as they plan to grow into more successful online stores. Let’s have a closer look at newborn Magento-driven online stores and find out what they are about.
Seven planet is the world’s first chain of green general stores. It is the foremost green and sustainable marketplace for consumer-based products sold within both virtual and traditional storefronts.
Bracelets.com is the world leader in bracelets offering education and a wide selection with 100% free shipping. Unlike other jewelers, bracelets.com specializes in bracelets so you can be sure that you will receive the best bracelets possible. Bracelets.com offers gold bracelets, silver bracelets, pearl bracelets and more.
Wall Bed Factory has a proud heritage of providing customers with attractive Murphy Bed solutions that can transform a little-used guest bedroom into a unique multi-purpose home office, sewing room, library or game room - and back into a guest bedroom in seconds.
As we’ve already mentioned Magento e-commerce application is a good choice for successful online store building because Magento is a SEO friendly and feature-rich solution. So it becomes obvious that the number of online stores powered by Magento is constantly growing.
A list of Free Magento Themes
Magento developers and online merchants are constantly looking for Magento Themes. Everyone is looking for a cool design for his online store! I bet you’ll be lucky to find a list of Free Magento Themes. You can easily find it at Blog.templates.com. Each Magento Theme that has been reviewed at this blog is free to download.
Seems Blog.templates.com has made a first attempt to list Free Magento Themes that are currently available: Modern Theme, Pet Store Theme, Blue Skin, Telescope Theme, Tealo Theme, Electroni store theme, and etc. Each design goes with a short description.
Unfortunately there aren’t a lot of free designs for Magento stores. So it seems reasonable to purchase an original Magento Theme from famous web templates provider. Though, you are to decide if you prefer a free design or an original one. You are the only one to manage your Magento online store outlook. At least you know that you can find free designs for Magento application having visited the above mentioned blog.
So Blog.templates.com has done a great job having gathered all already existing Magento Themes that can be used for free. This post lists free designs that will help you customize your online Magento store without spending a dollar.
The more Magento online shops, the better
If you’ve missed browsing online Magento stores we’ve prepared some screen shots for you. These screen shots show Magento-powered online stores.
All stores that are mentioned in our post have switched to Mageno application quite recently. The main reason is that Magento is a new solution. Still a very popular one because online merchants enjoy this open-source shopping cart, its features and possibilities. So it’s time to enjoy browsing the companies that trust Magento.
Zalando is on Magento. Note Zalando is a German online store that sells footwear.
Sferis is on Magento as well. Sferis is one of the largest electronic online stores in Poland.
Powerhouse Fitness, a UK based fitness equipment chain, has also chosen Magento to be its basement.
More Magento online stores are waiting for you in the future.
Magento stores family has been enlarged
Two more online shops have chosen open source Magento shopping cart. Cacties and Mikatani are on Magento to be exact.
Cacties sells neckwear, apparel and accessories. This online shop is originally designed and it’s easy to navigate. Cacties has added a blog to its online shop. The blog should bring additional traffic and more potential customers to this online store. All products represented at MyCacties.com are filled with the spirit of the American West. If you visit Cacties’s About Us page you’ll learn than this very shop has been created “for that man whose heart is in the iconic American west, wherever his feet may be planted.” My wish list page allows customers order some original stuff and Store location page informs about those shops which sell products offered at MyCacties.com offline. It’s easy to notice that MyCacties.com has a good Page Rank (currently it is 5). It’s one more proof that Magento helps you build SEO friendly online stores.
Mikatani is a French online store which sells clothes, jewelry, bags, cups, and etc. In spite of the fact that Magento allows switching to multiple languages Mikatani has chosen to be in French only. Probably Mikatani doesn’t want to sell its products all over the world. Though, it can easily become an international online shop if the store manager enables multiple languages which are included into Magento shopping cart by default.
Considering the fact that Cacties and Mikatani are on Magento now these online shops have a reliable, flexible and easy-manageable eCommerce platform. Let’s wish them good luck and prosperity.
Product Comparison option for Magento stores
Magento open source shopping cart has a great number of stunning features which attract webmasters and online store owners. Today we’ll describe a Product Comparison option. This option allows Magento shoppers compare the products offered for sale at any Magento online shop. So each customer who is not sure which product will suit his/her needs best of all can compare different product and make the only right choice.
Being a Magento store owner you can offer a great variety of products for your customers. If you care for your customers and want to provide them with such a comfortable option as Product Comparison you’ll get really satisfied clients.
So each shopper who would like to use this option should browse the products offer at Magento online store and choose those ones which correspond his/her needs most of all. Having done so the customer should press Add to Compare button for the products which should be compared. This button is placed below Add to cart button. View the below placed image if you want to see what window appears when customer makes an attempt to compare several products from product catalog.
Magento has empowered one more online shop
Trendyshoppes.com is one more online shop that has been powered by Magento. This online shop offers exclusive products for sale. Some of the products you meet at this online shop can be bought in this shop only. Welcoming design impresses every potential customer and Magento shopping cart doubles the pleasant experience of shopping at Trendyshoppes.com.
Striving to attract more customers Trendyshoppes.com has also added a blog to its online shop. It’s obvious that blog will help to promote the products which are represented at this shop.
While shopping at Trendyshoppes.com customers can choose from such payment options like PayPal and paying via credit card. Frankly speaking Magento allows much more payment options. Who knows probably this very shop will add some of them soon. My Wishlist block will help customers order the products they would prefer to find at Trendyshoppes.com next time they visit it.
New shopping options such as Shop by Category, Shop by Designer and Shop by Recipient help customers find the products they need spending minimum time. Checkout process is also fast and clear. So shopping at this Magento store is a very pleasant way to buy original things.
Recently launched Magento store
Hairworks.co.nz is one more Magento Store which is a bright example of an impressive online store. This Magento store has a very original design. It doesn’t even remind the default design offered by Magento team.
No doubt Hairworks.co.nz uses most Magento key features. To name just a few of them: multiple site control from a single admin interface, single page checkout, ship-to addresses functionality, different payment methods, and etc. Each product has several information blocks which help potential customers learn more about the products represented at this shop. These information blocks are Quick Overview block and Product Description block.
Hairworks.co.nz is also a great example of a SEO friendly online shop. It is enabled by such SEO options as built-in natural search optimization, easily-editable metadata, and social shopping tools such as reviews and tags that encourage dynamic product-related content. Clear navigation enables quick finding the products customers are looking for.
Hairworks.co.nz was launched this year. So let’s wish good luck its owner and its customers. Time will show if choosing Magento platform was successful for this site.
Comparing Magento stores
One would think what can cars’ online shop and cakes’ online shop have in common? Being the basement for both of these sites Magento proves that these sites can be similar in many ways and still look in a unique and original way.
The first thing which comes in mind when we visit these sites is a similar placement of functional areas. The deeper we go into these stores the more common things we can find. Both online shops has offer Newsletter subscription. While Billetgrillpro.com offers it at the homepage Thecakery.com.au offers it in the left side bar. Both sites have site maps, and Add to compare option. This option allows you to compare several products you like in order to see their descriptions and manufacturers and make the right choice. It helps customers find the right product without visiting the other sites. Checkout procedure is the same in both online shops.
There are also some differences between the two shops. The store owners have chosen completely different color schemes. Billetgrillpro.com uses product images of the bigger size than Thecakery.com.au does. Billetgrillpro.com has a wish list which can be found in the main navigation menu. It means every customer can leave his/her message and order the products he/she would prefer to find at this site while visiting it next time. It seems to be a great way of communicating with potential customers and being attentive to their needs and wishes. Billetgrillpro.com also offers Live Support.
Billetgrillpro.com and Thecakery.com.au sell different products but both of them are successful examples of Magento online stores.
Add a blog to your Magento store
If you want your Magento store to be successful and profitable you should promote its products. If you would like to promote the products you sell you should think of starting a web blog at your Magento store. This web blog will be a place for you to communicate with your potential customers and inform them about the advantages of your products. Posting interesting and useful articles you’ll make your blog a reliable online resource which will help you succeed in e-Commerce. In a case you agree with all above mentioned statements you should learn how you could add a web blog to your Magento store.
The best and the fastest way to learn is reading tutorial Setup a Blog Inside Your Magento Store! This tutorial explains how a blog can be implemented into Magento online store with the help of Lazzymonks Blog Extension for Magento. If you are attentive it won’t be a problem for you to enhance your Magento store with a stunning blog.
Note having started a web blog you can review the products you sell at your Magento store and answer your customers’ questions; you can also advice the best way your products can be used for. If you post interesting and relevant content your blog will rank well and search engines will come back to your site again and again bringing good traffic and future clients.
One more online shop powered by Magento.
Of course it’s impossible to highlight all Magento based online stores but you can see some of them here. So you imagine what your online store can look like if you choose Magento CMS to be the foundation for your online business.
Magento online store displayed in this post have been developed by ist owner like an online shop for selling electronics. It’s easy to notice that this online store is easy to navigate and it has a clear structure. So it’ll be hard for the potential customers to get lost in such a comfortable online shop.
All product attributes such as product name, product description, product price and etc are very helpful for choosing the right product. Customers can search products by name and price.
If you want to start an online shop you should compare different e-Commerce solutions and see how they work. Having visited the above mentioned online store you can evaluate its usability and functionality and decide if you would like to run a similar Magento online shop.