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One of the greatest changes in ecommerce recently is rapid growth of social ecommerce. If you run an online store then you already know that most part of your customers already active on social networks. Right now Facebook have more than 800 million active users and average user has 130 friends. Don’t miss this huge opportunity to build tight relationships with your customers and get new customers via social networks.

Your satisfied customers are your best advertisers. With Social Suite your customers will be able to share their wishlist, orders and reviews, like your products and categories and post comments on your products pages. That will create create a social buzz around your store and easily attract new customers and increase number of social signals to search engines. Using Facebook or Google accounts in order to login will make registration process easy and fast.

Social Suite will help you:

• Increase your visibility in social networks
• Turn your customers into advertisers
• Simplify registration process
• Help you in your social link building strategy
• Increase number of social signals for search engines

Please find more information on the Magento Social Suite page.

Are you looking for an effective way to increase your sales and drive high quality traffic to your Magento store? There is no better way than affiliate marketing in such case. Since you pay when a sale is made, your advertising budget is being used more efficiently compared to any other advertising method. By investing a few dollars you can easily increase the number of visitors to your Web site and significantly increase sales.

Find out more about at extension products page Affiliate Suit extension demo

There are more then 4500 extensions at Magento Connect right now. And number of extensions is growing every day. Sometimes it’s getting really hard to find right free extension for your store. That is why we have created top 33 extensions list that should help you find best one for you. All extensions are listed according to number of downloads at Magento Connect on August 04, 2011.

1. Fontis WYSIWYG Editor

Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 59282
Compatability:1.1, 1.3, 1.2
Most popular community extension allow to add a chosen JavaScript WYSISWYG editor to selected admin pages. It will be usefull for store owners who still use older magento version or want to change default magento editor built-in into recent magento versions.

2. Enhanced Admin Product Grid

Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 53726
Compatability:1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2, 1.5
Great addition for every magento store owner. It adds some useful, customizable features to the admin product management grid including new columns and tools.

3. Blog

Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 53481
Compatability:1.3, 1.4.2, 1.5
In case you want to run blog at your store then you can use either separate Wordress installation or use complete power of magento with blog extension by Aheadworks. It’s full featured blog extension for Magento Community Edition.

4. Magento EasyLightbox

Extension page: Magento Connect
Number of downloads: 47143
Compatability:1.4
Magento lightbox extension for your magento store. It will replace default magento products media block with lightbox powered javascript.

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Are you selling products in different colors or design? Then Easy Colors Swatches will help your customers to understand how your products will look in each different variation. Simply assign any image from product gallery to each attribute value and get ready image switcher on your store products page. Easy Color Swatches provide easy and flexible way to create professional looking color swatches for your Magento store.

Check Magento Easy Color Swatches demo and find out more details at extension products pageEasy Color Swatches demo

Checkout process is the most important and complicated part of any e-commerce website.

A checkout process with several complicated steps and form elements usually leads to losing your customers. Because of this, they will abandon their shopping cart selections. This is why keeping a checkout form simple is one of the best ways you can help your customers place an order quickly. This also helps increase your sales.

The fire checkout extension provides a fully customisable checkout page with ajax powered page updates. The customer’s city and country location minimizes the number of steps they need to place an order for new customers. As for registered customers, the checkout process has been made even faster! Fire Checkout helps them to place their orders with just one click using the predefined billing and shipping settings.

Fire Checkout provides full support for all payment and shipping methods. No core modification is needed to install your new One Page Checkout solution.

Improve your store checkout process and increase your sales today with Fire Checkout. Spend less effort and still get more customers. Start improving your store today and get an immediate increase in sales!

Please find more information on the Magento Fire Checkout page.