What marketing options are available for my online gift basket business?

Online Small businesses must spent time often marketing their Gift Baskets Site in order for their business to grow and prosper. There are many tools used for marketing. Link Exchanges, paid listings, Opt-In email advertising, classifieds, pro search engine submission, postcards, and business cards advertising, etc… free resources can be found through search engines. Search terms such as free advertising, free classifieds, marketing, opt-in email campaigns, guaranteed search engine placement, Postcard advertising. Please review our marketing tips page for more marketing resources.

To get people to your site post flyers in grocery stores, laundromat, send some to your relatives and friends. Use postcards with a picture of your site on them and mail to local businesses.

• Search Engine Submission
• Press Release Distribution
• ppc (Paid Per Click) Marketing to be on top of major Search Engines

Marketing Promotions and Tools

• Flexible Coupons (pricing rules) with ability to restrict to stores, customer groups, time period, products, and categories.
• Catalog Promotional Pricing

Marketing Promotions and Tools

• Flexible Coupons (pricing rules) with ability to restrict to stores, customer groups, time period, products, and categories.
• Catalog Promotional Pricing

Search Engine Optimization

• Google Site Map
• URL Rewrites give full control of URL’s
• Meta-information for products and categories

Site Management

• Control multiple websites and stores from one Administration Panel
• Web Services API for easy integration between Magento and any third-party application
• A/B and Multivariate Testing

Catalog Management

• Batch Import and Export of catalog
• Google Base Integration
• Downloadable/Digital Products
• Advanced Pricing Rules and support for Special Prices (see marketing tools)

Catalog Browsing

• Layered / Faceted Navigation for filtering of products in Categories
• Layered / Faceted Navigation for filtering of products in Search Results
• Product comparisons
• Product Reviews

Product Browsing

• Multiple Images Per Product
• Product Image Zoom-in Capability

Mobile Commerce

• iPhone Optimized

International Support

• Multi-Lingual
• Support for Multiple Currencies

Checkout

• One-Page Checkout
• Checkout without account/Guest Checkout
• Shipping to multiple addresses in one order

Shipping

• Shipping to multiple addresses in one order
• Multiple shipments per order
• Free Shipping

Payment

• Multiple Payment Options Supported
• Payment Extensions Available through Magento Connect
• Configurable authorization and capturing of funds

Customer Service

• Feature-rich Customer Accounts
• Order Tracking from Account

Customer Accounts

• Re-orders from account
• Downloadable Products
• Recently ordered items

Order Management

• View, edit, create and fulfill orders from admin panel.
• Create one or multiple invoices, shipments and credit memos per order to allow for split fulfillment