Open Source Web Design & Online Business Marketing

Selling your products and/or services can take many forms, i.e.; to wholesalers, retailers, franchisees, overseas representatives, telesales, through a frontline sales force, direct to customers, mail order, social media Marketing, viral marketing and/or on-line through your own website – or any combination of these.

People worldwide are potential customers if you demonstrate sensitivity to their cultures and in meeting their special needs.  In addition, it’s important to bear in mind that the demographic mix in any country such as ours is changing – so even the way in which we market and sell to our local customer’s needs to reflect these changes just to maintain market share.

In many cases when developing a Magento website you will need to create a staging server to work from to make changes and modifications. From this you can then transfer the changes to your live website, which does not get effected during your development stages.

These instructions if followed correctly will duplicate your current Magento store without harming it in any way. However failure to follow these instructions correctly could result in significant harm to your live install. If you are not confident following these instructions then you should not undertake this HowTo.