Expanding to other European countries requires more than patience and proper language translations
Chase Paymentech Europe has announced results from a national survey exploring the challenges faced by UK firms in ‘Customer Not Present’ (CNP) payments. Western European online retail sales are projected to grow 11 percent to reach £153 billion by 2014. On a regional level, several key European countries have seen record growth above the UK’s growth of 160 percent over the past few years: examples include Spain at 199 percent and both France and Italy at 181 percent. Martijn Werdler, Commercial Director at Docdata Payments takes a look at the impact on payments for cross border e-commerce. Read more
Here’s a little reminder for you: Are you aware, that Cyber Monday is only 12 days away? This is your almost last chance to prepare special offers to your customers and promote them with Adwords campaigns and newsletters. With ePages you don’t have to worry about the infrastructure of your shop being prepared for the top selling e-commerce day of the year. Butow about your storage? Do you have enough of this year’s top sellers in stock? How about packaging materials? And last but not least: What’s with assistance for getting the goods on the road? Keep in mind: Cyber Monday will also come to your shop…
The best exchange of information is still best provided by those who share similar experiences. For this reason we are working flat out on the ePages shop owner community, a place for online merchants with and without the ePages shoping cart. Find out in the ePages blog how to participate in the upcoming closed beta and give us your feedback on the appearance and features to help us shape the community to your needs.
5 Must Watch B2B Videos, 25 brilliant examples of Facebook brand pages and an insight view how women use the web – 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 series “E-Commerce-Literature: recommended by ePages.” Have fun exploring. 
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. 
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”
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.