Category: Online shop & ecommerce
In recent days, ePages was a prominent exhibitor and speaker at important global events for the hosting and cloud industries. With products and collaborations moving rapidly across the industry, ePages remains at the heart of it.
The forthcoming Commerce Summit 2017 in Hamburg, hosted by ePages, is set to be one of the most hotly anticipated ecommerce events in Europe this year. A community of world leading experts across many disciplines will gather together with online retailers large and small, to share the most cutting edge and disruptive trends, techniques, technologies and news in the commerce space.
Just like with brick-and-mortar retail, the requirement for strong sales in ecommerce is that an adequate number of customers find their way to your store and enter it. In this article, Ines Maione from clickworker provides helpful tips for this.
This year’s “MetaPack Consumer Research Report” investigated the role played by delivery in ecommerce and what merchants can do to fulfil their customers’ expectations. The report is based on an online survey of 3,589 consumers in the US, the UK, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Italy. Read more
In conjunction with detailed product descriptions and high-quality images, an effective “About us” page can provide users with important information as they decide whether to buy from your online shop. This article describes how to create a personal page of this type and thereby gain the confidence of your customers. Read more
Last month, we had the pleasure of meeting HostingAdvice.com at HostingCon in New Orleans. The team, based in Florida, have long been regarded as an expert source of buying advice for anyone needing a web hosting or cloud related solution. Their staff attend product launches and industry expos worldwide in order to bring their audience news on the latest innovations.
ePages has just signed a global deal with Sage, the market leader in cloud accounting software, to offer fully sychronised online orders and accounting processes for ePages merchants. As a first phase, UK online shop owners can now benefit from greater digitalisation and efficiency by using ePages and Sage One software combined for their retail business.
SaaS (Software as a service) or Open Source? Installable or hosted in the cloud? If you have been in the e-commerce world for a while, you are probably familiar with these concepts, but … do you really know what they mean or what their differences are from one another? If, however, you are considering opening an online shop and have not decided yet which system suits you most, knowing the differences between SaaS and Open Source solutions will help you understand what is most convenient for your business idea.
One of the biggest benefits of social media is that it’s free. This is true from a monetary perspective, but often what it doesn’t cost you in money it will cost you in time. What I mean is; if you really want to achieve success on social media with unpaid (organic) content alone, you’ll need to share relevant updates on a regular and consistent basis.
The European Commission proposed a package of measures today to allow consumers and companies to buy and sell products and/or services online more easily across the EU. The main three measures are: tackling geo-blocking, making cross-border parcel delivery more affordable and promoting customer trust through better protection and enforcement.
