1. CloudSponge

It’s tagline is meet everyone you know in five minutes, from existing connections to potential customers and potential friends. Contacts and connections remain a vitally important resource to expand your business and customers often trust the word of their friends. Reach them with CloudSponge and forget the pain of manually adding in address book after address book for every new contact you meet. CloudSponge integrates all your e-mail contacts from every e-mail server around.

2. Facebook Integration

Bring your store into the social network and connect with every Facebook user out there. With this Magento Extension, you can transform the social media experience into the shopping experience. A step up from the popular and powerful “like” button, this extension allows shoppers to like, browse, and buy your products all on Facebook. Marketing your store rarely gets any easier when you give your customers the option to like a purchase and post it on their wall for all their friends to see.

3. One Step Checkout

Anyone who has ever done online shopping knows how cumbersome the checkout process can be. Page after page of entering redundant information is not the simple swipe and go you’ll find at your regular brick and mortar store. But with a one step checkout extension, reducing the number of pages to go through before arriving at the “place your order” button saves customers time and convenience. Magento gives customers a single page to conveniently enter shipping and payment information and they’re ready to go. With a one page checkout, buyers will appreciate and remember this simple,quick and easy experience.

4. Product Page Discussion Extension

A useful tool to personally connect with your audience and spread valuable product information and updates, the Magento discussion extension can play a valuable role in elevating your store above others. Engage in Q and A sessions right with your buyers or encourage users to discuss products with other customers. Allow them to get to know your store a little better, all right from the product page.

5. Advanced Newsletter

Newsletters are a powerful tool in marketing strategies and almost a necessity to attract customers to your store. With the Advanced Newsletter Magento extension, distribution and segmentation of your newsletters has never been easier. You can use newsletters to keep up presence and awareness in your customer base and with the Magento extension, target your subscribers with the content they will find most relevant and helpful for their needs.

6. Search Autocomplete and Suggestion

Quicken your customer’s search queries quickly and efficiently. Suggesting products only after the third character has been entered, search autocomplete allows your visitors to bypass the procust results page and head over to exactly what they want. Suggestion also enhances your overall inventory and shows visitors the depth of how much your store can offer on the desired topic your customer is looking for.

7. Google Base Feed Generator

You don’t have to worry about refreshing your feed generator every 30 days with this Magento Google Based Feed Generator. Operate your Google feeds with a peace of mind and let this extension follow Google’s policies and refresh your feed manually.

8. ShipWorks

Ship in less time with this integrated service connected to your Magento Store. With Shipworks, you can easily download your orders, create shipping labels, update order statuses, and manager customer emails. The bonus of this extensions comes with the integration of all major shipping carriers (FedEx, UPS, DHL, USPS and others) into one platform. Make shipping easy for every customer, no matter what shipping process you choose.

9. Magic Zoom

Images are an important part of your product page presentation. Not only do they create a visual impression of a product, t. With Magic Zoom, you can enhance this impression. When customers browse over your images, Magic Zoom creates a box that . When the mouse hovers over the image, a box appears and offers a detailed close up at the image. With just a hovering of the mouse, customers get a more thorough look at your product and their confidence in buying increases.

10. Follow Up Email

The Follow Up Email extension serves as a powerful auto-responder and shows your caring for the customer. An excellent relationship tool, the follow up email gives them the peace of mind that their order has gone through and is quickly being taken care of through your expert service. You can also use this Magento extension to never lose track of your customers who have abandoned their shopping carts, but are still considering a purchase.

In an effort to focus on enhancing its Enterprise, Community, and Go editions, Magento announced this week that it is phasing out Magento Professional.

Different Magento Editions

If you are currently using the Magento Professional Edition, you will have a few available options when your license comes up for renewal.

1. Maintain your existing license for another year, after which you will need to switch to Magento Go or Enterprise editions ($2,995)

2. Remain on Magento Professional in perpetuity ($5,995)
Note: You will not be provided with any support and maintenance by the Magento team.

3. Upgrade to Magento Enterprise at an introductory price of $5,995

Magento also announced that as of March 1, the price for the Enterprise Edition will increase 11%. If you are currently using Magento Community or Professional editions and you’re considering moving to Enterprise, there’s never been a better time to upgrade! Contact EYEMAGINE, a Magento web development agency, today to learn how we can help you take advantage of all the features offered by Enterprise and secure your license before the price increase.

Likewise, if you currently use the Magento Professional Edition and have any questions about how Magento’s announcement could impact your business, contact us and we’ll gladly go over all your options in detail.

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At the X.commerce Innovate conference last week (October 12-14), eBay announced ground-breaking integration across multiple platforms that will ultimately benefit Magento store owners by tighter integration with PayPal and eBay, increased sales channels, additional tools for payment processing and online marketing, and much more.

We are excited about the announcement because merchants on the Magento platform will be fully integrated with eBay, PayPal, and other sales channels without making a single investment in integration software; it will all be included.

We took the X.commerce Pledge

We are so excited about X.commerce, we took the pledge to optimize customer experience across the entire commerce ecosystem.

Along with powerful new developments in commerce, The Shins played an amazing set to bring the first night of the conference to a close.

Stay tuned for more developments regarding Magento, x.commerce, eBay, and PayPal.

The tunnel into the evening's festivities

Developers and Merchants Mingling at Innovate

The Shins were the Headliners at this year's x.commerce Innovate Conference

EYEMAGINE is offering free installation of the latest stable release of Magento Enterprise Edition to customers that purchase or upgrade Magento Enterprise Edition. Contact us to find out how.

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Other e-tailers are seeing similar success with a powerful e-commerce presence supported by a physical storefront.  Although not a guaranteed formula, the combination does boost sales and raise brand awareness.

As Google optimizes search results for local results, a physical store can boost consumer confidence, especially when it comes to purchasing apparel.

As you can imagine, this level of control over customer lists can be incredibly powerful for targeted email campaigns.

In addition to being able to separate lists of customers with Magento Enterprise Edition, customers can be provided with targeted content based on their customer attributes and/or past purchase behavior.  If you want to promote a certain product to a customer that has not yet purchased it, Magento Enterprise Edition makes it easy as a few mouse-clicks.

Contact us to find out how Magento Enterprise can help your business target customers accurately and effectively.

Would you like to see all of your closed/completed sales in a single Magento report that includes: Order ID, Order Date, Shipping Date, Merchandise Amount, Tax Amount, Shipping Amount, Tracking Number, Refunded Amount, Net Amount?

We have created a custom Magento report that includes all of the information above for each report within a time frame that you can specify.

Now available for Magento v1.4.

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If you have lots of products to manage in a single category, this module is going to save you hours of sorting and organizing. Instead of tediously tracking position values, simply drag and drop the product to automatically change the position and see instant results. View the screencast below for a visual demo.

Merchandising Made Easy: $299 USD

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EyeMagine is an authorized OneStepCheckout partner and we highly recommend the OSC to all our clients. The OSC is the new must-have Magento extension that is taking the market by storm.

OSC is a total revamp of the standard checkout process in Magento. The core feature is that it reduces the six standard Magento checkout steps down to one. Totals and prices are dynamically updated via AJAX when shipping/payment method is selected. The user simply fills in their address and chooses delivery/payment methods on the same page, rather than having to do a separate step for each.

Improving the checkout process results in more customers completing their sales, and this has an immediate impact on your bottom line. It is the single most effective technical change you can make to reduce shopping cart abandonment.

Contact us to find out how to add OneStepCheckout to your Magento store today!