ShowMe Guides Managing an Online Business with Open Source Commerce Programs: For osCommerce, CRE Loaded, Zen Cart, osCMAX, Magento, Cube Cart & CartXpress [Paperback]

Kerry Watson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2, 2009 | Series: Showme Guides

My promise to you: NO Technical Jargon! If you've just been handed the keys -- err, password -- to a new online store and don't have the faintest idea what to do, this book is for you. Managing an Online Business with osCommerce by Kerry Watson covers everything a NON-technical manager of a new online store needs to know to manage the day-to-day operations of your newly-built online store. Whether you are JUST THINKING about an online store, have your online store UNDER CONSTRUCTION, or already have your online store OPEN FOR BUSINESS... YOU NEED THIS BOOK. This book is about planning, organizing, managing, operating and refining an online store. If you are still thinking about online store, it includes a special section on managing a website project and technical people. SPECIAL: JUMP-START GUIDE FOR NEW STORES Bonus guide on using the private Administration area of your new store in osCommerce, CRE Loaded, Zen Cart, osCMAX, Magento, Cube Cart or CartXpress.

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About the Author

The author of the osCommerce Technical and User Manual Series, Kerry Watson joined the Open Source movement in 1996 as the Producer for the Netscape Navigator website. She holds an MBA and a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and Communication. In 1999 she founded Pithy Productions, Inc., a web project management company that specializes in helping non-technical people with custom open source commerce websites.

Product Details

• Paperback: 130 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (April 2, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 144212458X
• ISBN-13: 978-1442124585
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,562,485 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars NOT for techies, April 27, 2010

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Larry Jaques "an avid reader" (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ShowMe Guides Managing an Online Business with Open Source Commerce Programs: For osCommerce, CRE Loaded, Zen Cart, osCMAX, Magento, Cube Cart & CartXpress (Paperback)

Upon seeing the entire secondary title of the book when I unboxed it, I returned it to Amazon. "For NON-TECHNICAL Managers and Administrators" didn't show up in the listing and I was specifically looking for a techie book. I already have _Zen Cart: Building an Online Store the Zen Way_ by Kerry Watson; Matthew Therrien, which I love, and hoped this was the sequel. It isn't. It appears to be a dumbed-down version (for those poor, bedraggled souls, Managers. ;) I ended up getting _e-Start Your Web Store with Zen Cart_ by Goh Koon Hoek, and it appears to be more in-depth than Kerry's original. I just wish that the two Amazon Marketplace vendors hadn't doubled the price of Hoek's book. I had to buy it elsewhere, paying retail.