Friday 18 July 2014

LinkedIn Extension for your Magento Store

In today’s world, millions of people around the globe are using social networking sites for different purposes. Plenty of social networking sites are available on the Internet; Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, Squidoo, MySpace, StumbleUpon, Digg, Google Plus, YouTube, etc. These sites also play an important role in the business industry. In this article we are going to see how to attract customers by using Magento LinkedIn Extension in the online store business.

Magento is one of the most popular and pliable, open source eCommerce platform which is trusted by over 200,000 online store merchants, as it is an ideal platform for all types of eCommerce business. It offers the merchants complete flexibility and control over the functionality of their online channel. Magento has many rich features that help merchant to run a successful online store in the competitive business industry.

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Magento LinkedIn Extension

LinkedIn

According to a 2010 survey from the Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG) and Anderson Analytics, 47% companies with <2000 employees and 36% companies with +2000 employees have a LinkedIn presence.

LinkedIn is a professional, business and occupation focused social networking website which is utilized by many professional to share the information as well as networking. Available in 20 different languages to provide its services to all the people in the globe. It consist of more than 259 million users in over 200 countries and territories around the world. LinkedIn has 50 million members from the major countries such as The United States, India, United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada, and Australia.

Integrating Magento with LinkedIn

One of the biggest features of Magento is, it’s able to integrate with many social networking sites. There are many extensions are developed by combining Magento with social media sites. Each Magento Social Media Extension used to increase the visibility of the website. By using these type of extensions merchant can easily attract the social users.

Many online shoppers are reluctant to become registered users in the online websites. Do you know, why? During the registration process, online shoppers spend most of their time to fill the long registration form. This makes them to avoid becoming the registered users in the online websites. You can attract all these customers by using simple and efficient way called “Social Login”.

The extension integrates Magento with LinkedIn to increase the website audience by using the advanced log-in tool. Without filling the long registration form, you can allow your users to sign-in on your website by using their LinkedIn login credentials. That means, your user can avoid spending time on the registration form. With the help of this extension, you can offer an instant sign-in and sign-up via their LinkedIn account.

Features and Benefits:
  • Easy to install and use
  • Compatible with Magento Version 1.6.x, 1.7 x, 1.8.x and 1.9.x
  • Enables customers to create an account on the website
  • Reduces customers from spending time for the user registration form
  • Reduces the drop-off rate
  • Helps to drive quality traffic and to get good search engine ranking
Conclusion

This Magento Extension provides seamless login experience to the customers. This draws the attention of more number of customers towards your Magento store. This social log-in tool offers the best customer services in the website and also increases the business sales.