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There are thousands of extension at Magento Connect. Your job is to create a practical product that’s easy to implement, use and update. It’s doesn’t matter, if you are rookie developer, submitting your first extension to the marketplace, or a seasoned extensions provider that has been in the business for years. If you’re not making it easy to adopt and use your product - none of your skills and enthusiastic ideas will matter. 

Your Magento Connect listing is your ‘first impression’, as many people go straight to the marketplace to look for the right extension for their store. Your presentation and the information that you provide on your extension’s Magento Connect page is important for business. Think of it as a landing page that tries to convert people. 

And don’t think that if you have a unique solution - you don’t have to worry about anything. Even the best ideas, if explained and presented improperly, may never really take off. Especially, if you’re providing a new extension that has never been introduced before - your job is to make it clear, why the extension is so great and why people should install it.

In this post we’re sharing some tips and tricks, which might help you make your extension more appealing and bring in more installs for your product. We’ll offer some examples of good and bad Magento Connect product pages. Please note, that these examples do not actually represent the quality of the displayed products. They merely reflect the quality of the product page and its presentation. 

This weeks extensions are all about sales and the checkout process. Learn how to offer better deals and optimize your coupon/ discount practices with these useful and simple extensions.

This week we have some huge updates ready for you. As we promised - we're doing everything possible to make our service more versatile, stable and secure for our clients.

That's why we constantly add new features and functions to the MageCloud platform. Let's take a closer look at what we've added to our product.

This week we're highlighting latest Magento Connect extensions that will help you increase your conversions and simplify your work with product categories on your website. 

Remember that these extensions are raw and have just been added to the marketplace. It's up to you to give them a try and see for yourself, if any of them actually work for your particular store. 

One of the key Magento events within CIS states and the only official Magento event in Russia will take place in Moscow, in October. This year the event will focus on 2 core topics: Magento management and Magento development. 

As you know, Magento 2 Merchant Beta has been released just last week. And we're pleased to inform you that it's already available at MageCloud.net for a test run. 

All you have to do is register at MageCloud for a free account and launch your store by choosing Magento 2 Beta as your theme. It has all of the great features that we've been hearing about lately and it's a great opportunity to play around with it and see how it will work for your store. This product is as close as it can get to the GA (general availability) version of Magento 2. 

This week there were some pretty good extensions added to the Magento Connect marketplace. Again, these are all new, so it’s up to you to test them out and see, if they work for your store’s setup. Don’t forget to check out last weeks edition, where we talked about mCommerce, social marketing and BitCoin. 

Featured extensions that we chose to highlight this week will change the way you serve your customers, boost your SEO, add new payment options and offer better ways to communicate with clients. 

Although some of the biggest Magento events of 2015 have already taken place, there are still tons of great opportunities to meet Magento professionals and learn about Magento and Magento 2. This platform has one of the best communities in eCommerce and that’s why its calendar is full of conferences and meetups for Magento enthusiasts and specialists to attend.  

Check out some of the hottest Magento events that are coming this fall and winter. Find out where you can catch up on the latest Magento developments and community activities.

This is the first post in a series of articles, which will highlight some of the latest additions to the Magento Connect store. We’re planning to post these up every week with short reviews of 3-5 extensions that we think should be pretty useful for any store owner. 

This week the newly arrived extensions were trying to help you with your mCommerce, social marketing and online payments through BitCoin. Note, that all of these have just been added to the marketplace, so we can’t guarantee that they’ll work perfectly. 

You have spent countless hours of hard work on making your website work. You’ve created tons of features and functions for your clients. But amidst all of the hustle it’s very easy to forget about the basic things, the fundamentals that make your website work. What can you do to make sure that your launch goes smoothly?

We’ve got you covered with our great pre-launch checklist. Use it before launching any Magento website.