I hope your office/home/coffee place is also filled with a pleasant pine and freshly peeled oranges scent and you feel the slowing rhythm of everybody and everything around you.
We are also enjoying this time of the year and are spending most of our time on summing up and drawing conclusions for 2010 and deciding on our future actions for 2011. Of course, I want to share with you here some of the milestones of Avangate in 2010 :).

Shanghai, here we come! And it should be both business and pleasure, since this is one of the most fascinating cities in China.

Alexandra, Adriana, Florentina and Andy will welcome all of you software professionals at the conference. If you want to meet software experts, develop new business partnerships or just schmooze with key people from software & eCommerce industry, then don’t plan anything on Saturday, December 4th and join us in the beautiful Everbright International Hotel.

We’re going to talk about selling software in Europe and the US and see what the trends are for 2011. Also, speaking of international sales, there will also be an interactive panel where DVDFab and WinXDVD will share their best practices on this subject.

On top of this, you will learn how to optimize your conversion rate via practical tips from our experts.

And if you don’t know the Avangate platform and what it can do – don’t worry. We’ll have a live solution demo over there.

So, we’re looking forward to meeting and chatting to you there! See you in Shanghai!

In case you missed it: Avangate just turned 5 – Happy Birthday, Avangate! :)

With this in mind and with a strong desire to unwind, we left the office and went for 3 days to the quiet town of Săcele, in the heart of Romania, close to the mountains.

Apart from enjoying the glorious scenery, we did a lot of fun activities to help us bond and discover new ways to put into practice the company values.

We also discovered the artist within. For 4 full hours we went back school, this time to to the art and craft classes. A very special moment. We basically  painted a huge picture split in several pieces. Imagine a large room full of people working frantically, ingeniously mixing colors, and making sure they are consistent across the board (difficult task!), and let’s not forget also the personal touch. The outcome was spectacular as you can see below:

Like every beginning of November since 2006, you have the chance to meet us at the ESWC (European Software conference). This time, on the 6th and 7th of Nov (this weekend!), in wonderful Vienna.

Avangate is the Premiere Sponsor as we have been every year and we are proud to take part in the event, meet so many people passionate about software and exchange ideas.
As we did at ISDEF, we want to celebrate (again) our 5th anniversary. So prepare for toasting because on Saturday evening at the Epsilon Awards Ceremony the drinks are on us. ;)

The Contest, part II

Wow, an amazing 200+ people took part in the “Avangate wins 5” contest. Going through all the answers was a wonderful experience per se – thank you all for your kind thoughts and words of appreciation – big happy smile on our faces.

Thanks for your thumbs up for our customer support, account managers, for helping you increase sales and manage your partners, for our affiliate network, impeccable accounting, for joining the same conferences that you go to and so much more. Here is how Avangate in your 5 words looks like:
It was a pleasure going through your answers and really difficult to choose only 2 winners, so… we decided to give away 3 prizes. Well, let’s not keep you guessing:

Avangate is in Moscow this week, at ISDEF Autumn (Sep 30th – Oct 3rd). Wow! It’s the 11th time we are attending this event, by far the biggest software event in Russia. Avangate is the Special Sponsor of this edition and, like every year, we are proud to take part in the event, meet so many people passionate about software and exchange ideas on how to sell software worldwide in a way that is efficient, secure, locally relevant.

Avangate eCommerce consultants will make presentations on hot issues that impact software companies today – developing trust and optimizing conversion rates – and will also be available for one-to-one discussions throughout the event. So don’t miss them: