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Discover, Book & Order on One Easy-to-Use Website
Each of the producers in our marketplace cooperative has been handpicked for their incredible travel offerings, delicious food, drink and stunning arts & crafts. Each of their products can make a visit to Abruzzo extra special, and provide that extra ‘local’ authentic connection we all crave on holiday.
Fostering Rural and Urban Craft Folk and Small Businesses
Once back home from visiting Abruzzo, visitors can now enjoy and relive some of their most memory-evoking moments via our selection of foods, wines, crafts and colours via this ecommerce marketplace. The site is a simple way to gift a friend or family member the tastes, flavours and colours of Abruzzo; for those with Abruzzese ancestry it provides an excellent way to reconnect with their roots.
For businesses or Italian ancestral societies looking to order particular Abruzzese high quality products online, the site offers a quick way to order wholesale at a discounted price.
Sustainable Abruzzo
There is a need to create a more sustainable business model than one that solely relies on tourists visiting Abruzzo, as the recent coronavirus pandemic proved. By increasing knowledge of the region with an easy way to purchase as an individual or as a wholesaler connections and economic relationships develop.
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Reach Thousands
Your products will be seen by the growing thousands of highly engaged LifeInAbruzzo fans on the website, social media and on the newsletter.
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Boost Your Brand
As a curated marketplace you’ll be joining an exclusive group of hand-picked producers who are passionate about quality .
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Expert Advice
We know ecommerce. We’ll provide you advice every step of the way to maximise your success.
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Free Marketing
From organic SEO to Google adwords, advertising campaigns to PR and email marketing we will continually promote you and your products.
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Easy Ecommerce
Set up is fast and free (we set you up). The tools we’ll give you to manage your shop are some of the easiest to use.
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Pay on Success
The exposure of your brand comes for free. You only pay a small service fee each month that is realistically priced according to your annual income annual & a small commission fee per order.
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Vendor Advantages
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- To encourage physical visits, your shop address is geotagged and displayed on the site map where appropriate and shown within searches on the sites. On your individual vendor page your opening hours are displayed so visitors can plan a time to visit you or make an appointment as well as begin following your social media links.
- Being part of our cooperative means that you get found more easily and on higher page rankings for English language searches as well as found by accident from visitors to the site. Part of our role is to invest in and optimise your content to maximise the chances of it being found organically in Google English language search results. The blog alone currently receives 9000 unique visitors a month, 56% are American.
- As a vendor we are happy to share your high quality content, photos and posts to our almost 8000 devoted Abruzzophile followers on Facebook, each post has a minimum organic reach of 2.5K. Our Sunday Live in Abruzzo with cheesemakers Gregorio Rotolo & Nunzio Marcelli had a reach of 9.3k.
- We have a rapidly growing private Facebook community group made up of Italian Americans, Italians and expats, a newsletter subscription of 2100. The marketplace will be replicated as a shop on Facebook and Instagram to increase the reach of your products and services and conversion rate.
- You will be offered a low-cost monthly service charge option that suits your business based on your current income and which requires no minimum contract. As a commitment to counter the depopulation of the Apennine Mountains, the monthly admin fee will be waivered to vendors under the age of 35.
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Monthly Service Costs Based on Your Income
Up to €800 – €3 | €800 – €1,200 – €6 | €1,200 – 2,400 – €8 | €2,400 – €6,000 – €11 | €6,000 – €30,000 – €15 | Over €30,000 – €20
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- Commission
- The fee is 5% per order. This is applied across the gross or total order value (i.e. product charges + shipping charge).
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Where will you be Promoted on the Website
- Vendor Profile Page and Inventory
- Sponsored products on other product pages and in categories
- Promoted products in cart and at checkout
- Featured Vendor Profiles and product on the home page
- Promoted blog posts
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Categories Included
- Events, Tastings, Classes, Specialist Tours, Accommodation
- Food Products, Subscription Boxes, Wines, Subscription Cases
- Arts & Crafts – arts, photos, ceramics, woven products
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