Using Social Media with your ePages Shop – a merchant’s view
Social media isn´t just the next marketing buzz. Services like Twitter or Facebook can be a valuable addition to the shopping experience of your customers and have a notable impact on your shops conversion rate if used the right way. One ePages shop which widely uses social media is the Spanish based skin4fun. The ePages blog had the opportunity to do a little interview with its manager Mario Izquierdo about his experiences with social media in e-commerce. Read more
The grass is cut, the cleats are screwed in. Starting now and for the next four weeks, nothing else matters: All eyes are on the World Cup. The ePages blog hopes all readers enjoy the Soccer World Cup 2010 and may the best team win. And with it we hope you also enjoy this small selection of ePages shops, each with a soccer or World Cup theme.
While copying from someone else's paper in school is certainly frowned upon. Having a look at what the competition is doing in e-commerce is a must. Take a peek over your shoulder and see what your competition has come up with for designs of their online shops. You might just come up with a different idea for an accomplished and sales-promoting design for your own e-commerce presence. Our 360-degree look around the colourful work of ePages online shops will show you what options you have. 
Online merchants of the world unite! To mark labour day, we would ask for your help: Give us themes and topics around your everyday work with ePages that you want to learn more about. Help us help you and we reward your work with a little gift.
At this month‘s Internet World in Munich, yet another ePages rental shop was honoured. PomadeShop.de (www.pomade-shop.eu), a STRATO web shop based on ePages technology, received a 2010 Shop Usability Award in the “Special Interest” category—making it the first STRATO rental shop to earn this accolade.
You have created texts in Microsoft Office for your online shop and inserted them in the right places in your back office? When you check the storefront, however, you notice that the same content is not visible to visitors? Don’t worry! This is not a system error. Read the ePages blog to learn the cause of this apparent bug—and learn how to prevent it from occurring. 
Turning your new customers into regular customers is normally more economical than spending your resources trying to generate more new customers. This business maxim also applies to online business. And two of the best strategies to turn this good idea into action are to provide good customer service and information. A merchant who keeps his customers informed of their order progress generates satisfied customers who gladly come back again. Your ePages shop can support you in this task, with its automatic Email-notification features. 
“Get connected“ is this year´s motto at the WebhostingDay, the biggest Webhosting-Event in the world. Over 2,000 decision makers from Europe´s, North America´s and Asia´s leading providers will meet from March 17.-19. at the Phantasialand in Brühl to discuss industry trends, check out new business opportunities and socialise with friends and business contacts. This year, ePages will show up at the WebhostingDay with an exceptionally big team. 
The Parallels Summit 2010 at the Fontainebleau resort in Miami is one of the biggest event for the hosting business. ePages were proud to be one of the sponsors this year. The Parallels Summit is well known to attract the key industry players in the Software as a Service (SaaS) and web hosting industries. This year´s motto: “Profit from the cloud”