The traditional niche occupied by yellow-pages providers is experiencing a transition to online business. More and more customers are searching online for brick-and-mortar businesses. Small and medium-sized enterprises can profit from this trend – provided that they not only appear in a directory of businesses, but also maintain a website of their own. And yellow-pages providers must respond with appealing offers to the increasing popularity of online searches.

In Porto Petro, Mallorca on 12 and 13 May 2011, industry experts will convene once more at an international conference organised by the European Association of Directory and Database Publishers (EADP). The EADP has once again chosen an exclusive hotel, the Blau Porto Petro, for this event which serves as a platform for discussing the latest trends and establishing new business relationships. Under this year's slogan of "Discover the Mobile and Social El Dorado", this two-day conference will focus in particular on innovations and possibilities regarding mobile websites and social media. In addition to a range of entertaining activities, the EADP will offer interesting talks by speakers such as Simon Baptist, Group Head of Social Media & Syndication at European Directories; Dave Scheine, head of European Sales and Operations for Yelp; and Joachim Helfer, Business Development Manager at advantago GmbH&co. KG.

ePages, a leading provider of cloud-based online shops and business websites, will also present its offerings at the conference. Wilfried Beeck, CEO of ePages, looks forward to meeting you there. For more information about the event, please visit www.eadp.org.

ePages
ePages (www.epages.com) supplies one of the world´s leading e-commerce cloud service platforms. International hosting providers and yellow-pages providers as well as telecommunication and logistics companies such as Deutsche Telekom, British Telecom, Orange Business Services, Telegate, La Poste, Strato, Host Europe, LCN, Amen and Arsys offer preconfigured online shops and business websites for rental based on the ePages platform. They thus enable their customers to quickly and cost-effectively create professional online shops and business websites. In cooperation with over 60 technology partners, ePages integrates to the most important online portals, search engines, marketing platforms, payment systems and ERP systems. Over 50,000 businesses worldwide use ePages to run their online shops and business websites. ePages headquarters is in Hamburg; additional offices are in London, Barcelona and Jena, Germany.