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This week we're not going to wrap things up with the usual update about new Magento extensions. Instead, we wanted to share a list of the most popular Magento extension downloads from Magento Connect within the last 6 months.

For this list we used publicly available info from the marketplace: popularity score, Highest Rated page and the publication dates for various extensions. Check it out and let us know, if you're using any of these products. We hope that some of you will also be able to find new and useful tools that can optimize your online business even further.

It's very important to have all of the possible eCommerce tools available at your disposal. This is crucial for business growth and development, as you can experiment with all of these tools and find the most useful ones for your company. 

You may find email marketing as your best sales tool, or maybe personalization of the shopping process plays an important role in your ROI's growth. It's not important, as long as you have all of these tools available for your eCommerce business.

That's why we constantly grow our database of available extensions and developers that offer their products and services to our clients.

This week Magento Connect introduced some great extensions that will allow you to diversify your content management practices, increase the security of your backend and boost your offline sales with a store locating extension.

And our usual disclaimer: these are new extensions, added to Magento Connect just this week. Some of their functions may not work properly. You can always turn to the developers for more custom and direct assistance. All of the contact details are available in the marketplace.

This week's additions to Magento Connect aren't very abundant or particularly interesting. That's why we decided to showcase some of the great Magento themes that have been added to the various theme marketplaces around the web.

Some of them are designed to work for specific niches, but we're sure that with the right skills and attitude - you can make all of these work for your specific website.

As you probably know, EMV network rules are changing within a couple of months, in October. The chip cards will be introduced through all of the issuers, which should decrease the number of fraudulent transactions and make credit card payments more secure. While this makes it a lot harder to steal credit card info in ‘card present’ situations, the issues with online sales still remain. 

In fact, online transactions may become the focus of criminal activities, involving credit cards. As criminals will find it harder and harder to steal from chip cards, you can expect more of them to turn their attention towards online credit card payments. 

So now is a good time to think about your online store’s fraud prevention tactics and how you can improve them. We’ve prepared a short list of great Magento solutions, which can help you fight fraudulent transactions. 

We present the latest additions to Magento Connect that you’d want to check out. They’re fresh and have been introduced to the platform for the first time this week.  

The extensions may not function according to your expectations since they’re new and might require some time to be properly updated. We still think that these extensions deserve your attention. Feel free to leave any feedback, if you’ve already dealt with these products. But before, be sure to check out our last week’s recap. 

There are thousands of online stores like yours. Your potential clients have thousands of choices at the tip of their fingers and the numbers keep growing not in your favor. That’s why it’s important to use every little opportunity to be ahead of your competition. Every little detail that you implement in your eCommerce business may have a significant effect.

As a business owner you may consider these small, sometimes simply cosmetic, tweaks to be irrelevant to the prosperity of your enterprise. However, numerous other store owners and online shoppers may disagree with you. Product descriptions, SEO structure and backend image processing are parts of this great array of issues, which you have to address. Here are some tips on how you can make your online store a friendlier place for potential buyers. 

Today we're going to talk about some performance and store management enhancements, which can help you boost your store's speed and responsiveness and manage your personnel a little better.

As always - these extensions were added to Magento Connect just this week. It's up to you to test them out and see, if they work for your store. Since all of these are new, there might be performance issues, which could be expected when you're dealing with a new software product.

At least once in your lifetime you’ve participated in a social event, which required fundraising. For example: sports tournaments, weddings, family holidays, camping trips, etc. In these scenarios, group payments are a perfect example of how eCommerce can change the way people interact with each other. It offers convenience and flexibility, which allows people to actually advance towards their common goal. 

What’s in it for your business? The additional value and convenience brought in by the group payment options can attract more clients to your business and even sell more of your goods and/or services by letting more people pay for them. 

In this week’s episode, we’re going to share some simple Magento extensions that add pretty specific and non-essential functionality to your store. But at the same time, these little things are what makes your online business more usable, user-friendly and trustworthy. 

All of these have been added to Magento Connect this week and we encourage you to test them out by yourself. These extensions are new, so they might not function in accordance with your expectations.