Category: Online shop & ecommerce
The best sales opportunities sometimes arise between businesses. Large transactions, regular customers, dependable partners – being a player in the Business to Business market can pay off. An important factor supporting your B2B success is found in your ePages online shop standard feature set. The ePages Blog will show you what’s available.
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. Read more
“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. Read more
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”
ePages has a lot planned for 2010. The company wants to grow in many areas and markets. As new Vice President of Sales since November, Sören von Varchmin is now responsible for this. In November of last year, the native-born Wuppertaler moved from the management of Parallels – the leading company for virtualisation and automation software – to the ePages headquarters in Hamburg.
How to set up specific payment methods in my ePages online shop? The fourth blog-article of our mini-series “Payment methods in online shops” gives you the answer to that question using four tutorial videos specifically created for you.
Your online business is thriving and you are looking for ways to simplify the processing of orders? You are a medium-sized business with SAP Business One and want to enter the world of e-commerce? Then our new product “ePages for SAP Business One” is the perfect solution for you! Please read in our ePages blog just how easy it is to combine a rental shop with an enterprise resource-planning system — even without programming experience.
How to be successful with my E-Commerce-Project? And how to use the ePages-Software-Feature for that? Our blog gives you the answers for that. In order to always be up to date in the rapidly changing E-Commerce-Business we do look in to interesting articles and blog postings on a daily basis. Find the most interesting ones we came across in our new series “E-Commerce-Literature: recommended by ePages.” Have fun exploring.
A customer walks into your shop. As the owner of a brick-and-mortar store, your mission is simple. The only question you need to concern yourself with in this moment is: “How can I persuade this customer to spend money here?” But this same task is more difficult for you as an online merchant. The question you must be able to answer is: “Precisely what form of payment might this customer use?” After all, the customer can and will purchase something in your shop only if you allow them to pay as they wish. We will explore this issue in Part Two of our “Payment Systems in Online Shops” series.
Our survey of the different payment systems with regard to e-commerce continues. In the second and final part of “Payment Methods in Online Shops — Part 1: A Forest Full of Trees”, we explore the two remaining categories: “Payment with safeguards” and “Payment with virtual wallet”. These two categories have one thing in common: external service providers ensure that transactions are properly processed. Read more
Cash is king — but only once upon a time. This outdated saying applies even less to purchases processed via the Internet. Sophisticated payment concepts must replicate the role traditionally played by banknotes and coins as well as facilitate trust between anonymous merchants and their customers. Electronic payment methods are the digital handshake which seal the deal in today’s business world.
Yet there is a practically limitless range of payment systems. Our four-part series of articles entitled “Payment Methods in Online Shops” will help you find the right provider for your ePages online shop and explain what you need to be aware of concerning activation. In “Part 1: A Forest Full of Trees” we will help you by shedding light on some key matters.
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After our summer break, it is now time for the next instalment of “5 x Shop”. We hope that this sixth edition of our overview of the colourful world of ePages online shops will inspire successful business concepts of your very own. The highlights this time: a lavishly designed website for expressing brand messages, a taste of what to expect from the cover-flow effect to be provided soon by ePages, the successful utilisation of YouTube videos to promote sales, and two 1-product shops. But they all have something in common: a good idea is crucial. Read more
