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Terms & Conditions
Go4Camp is a trading name of European Camping Group Netherlands BV. European Camping Group Netherlands BV acts as a booking agent for foreign tour operators. Go4Camp SRL offers and handles all destinations in Italy; Go4Camp d.o.o. in Croatia, and Allcamps International AG for all the remaining destinations. The Dutch law is applicable to all the terms and conditions stated in the travel contracts. These terms and conditions are applicable to you and the travel provider once you have concluded a travel contract. The offers shown on this 2014 website are valid for new bookings from 1st October 2013 onwards.
Payments and cancellation
The deposit is 30% of the total price. The deposit must be paid prior to the date stated on the booking confirmation. The balance must be paid to the booking agency no later than 8 weeks prior to the date of arrival. If the travel contract is concluded within 8 weeks prior to departure, the total travel sum must be paid immediately. The costs incurred here are to be paid by the client. If the payments are not made within the stipulated time, the agent reserves the right to cancel the booking and the client is responsible for paying the cancellation charges. If a contract is cancelled, the client is obliged to pay any cancellation insurance charges incurred, as well as the following cancellation charges:
a. 30% of the full travel sum on cancellation up to the 42nd day (exclusive) prior to the date of departure;
b. 60% of the full travel sum on cancellation from the 42nd day (inclusive) to the 28th day (exclusive) prior to the date of departure;
c. 90% of the full travel sum on cancellation from the 28th day (inclusive) up to the date of departure;
d. The full travel sum on cancellation on the date of departure or later. All cancellations made by the client must always be confirmed in writing. In the event of cancellation, any payments already made cannot be transferred to a booking for the following year.
Discounts and last minutes
You have no right to claim a refund if you have already booked a holiday and you find that it is offered at a discount or as a special offer at a later date. Discounts do not apply to extras. The following applies to all discounts: the cheapest nights are free and it is possible to stay at different campsites, if you prefer.
Changes made by the client
There is no extra charge on any changes made up to 28 days prior to arrival, as long as the price remains the same or increases. You will receive a written confirmation if the change is possible. Changes made within 28 days prior to departure will be subject to an surcharge of £ 23, with the exception of any changes which result in a reduction of price. These changes will be considered partial cancellation and are therefore subject to the Cancellation Terms and Conditions (see Payments and cancellation). Our booking system is set up to ensure that all our accommodations are as fully occupied as possible, which means that it is not always possible to extend or shorten an existing booking (partial cancellation). In case a cancellation leads to the accommodation remaining vacant, 100% of the travel sum will be charged for the period of time which has been cancelled. We request your understanding in this matter. The original booking can be extended during your stay at the campsite, provided that there are accommodations available. In this case, you must pay the extra charge on the spot and you cannot make use of the 14=12-discount or any other special deals being offered at that particular moment.
Travel documents
You are responsible for having all the valid travel documents (also for children), which are required for your destination. Go4Camp will not be held responsible or accept any liability for any consequences that may arise from failing to have the correct travel documents.
Availability of accommodation
Your tent or mobile home is available from 3 pm. Your tent or mobile home must be vacated no later than 10 am on the day of departure. If you arrive later or depart earlier than booked, you will not be refunded for unused accommodations and Go4Camp has the right to rent this accommodation to someone else. You will be notified immediately in the event that we are unable to provide the accommodation you have booked owing to insufficient interest or unforeseen circumstances. If possible, we will offer you an equivalent alternative, without any extra charges. If you do not wish to make use of this offer, you will receive a refund of all payments made. Go4Camp will not be held responsible for compensating any damage that may occur. You are required to pay € 100 deposit on arrival (no deposit required for Casa Deluxe at Zaton Campsite).
Campsite accommodations
The mobile homes on the following op campsites are the property of these campsites: La Rocca, Del Garda, San Benedetto, Fornella, Fontanelle, Mareblu, Vill. Isamar, Capalonga, Vill. Europa, Pino Mare, Marelago and Solcio. Each of these campsites is responsible for the management and maintenance of these accommodations. The following may differ from campsite to campsite: date of arrival and date of departure, check-in and check-out times, minimum duration of stay, deposit, optional extras and cleaning regulations. It is not possible to book a "Next-to-each-other guarantee"at these accommodations. Our own Go4Camp campsite representatives are present on the following campsites: La Rocca, Del Garda, Villaggio Isamar, Capalonga and Villaggio Europa. They are not present on the following campsites: San Benedetto, Fornella, Fontanelle, Mareblu, Marelago and Solcio campsites. Booking on request: If all our own accommodations are fully booked, you can book your accommodation on request. If you book your request via our website, you will receive an email confirming your request and containing a summary of your request. Please note that if your request is accepted, then your booking is definite with immediate effect. You book your trip on request and we contact the accommodation provider to check whether they still have any accommodations available. It normally takes several days (approx. 1-3 working days) before we receive a reply. You will receive one of the following replies from us:
- If your request is accepted, then your booking is definite with immediate effect. You will receive the invoice by email within one working day.
- If your request is denied, we will contact you either by telephone or by email. We can then search for another accommodation that meets your requirements.
Use of accommodation
Guests are required to use and maintain the accommodation provided with due care, as intended. The design of the tents and mobile homes can differ in some ways. Pitches for tents and mobile homes can also vary in shape and size, even on the same campsite. In some tents, it is not possible to use the canopy. We reserve the right to claim damages from our guests for any loss and/or damages to our properties. Any loss and/or damages incurred must be reported to the campsite representative immediately, who will then ensure that the damage is repaired as soon as possible. The tents and mobile homes can comfortably accommodate a maximum of five persons (Casa Grande/Casa Royal: max. seven persons). The maximum number of persons allowed in a tent or mobile home is six (Casa Grande/Casa Royal: max. seven persons). An extra tent cannot be used to exceed the maximum number of persons per accommodation. In some cases, a surcharge must be paid on the spot for adding an extra tent. It is not always possible to park your car next to your accommodation, so you have to park it in the central parking area or elsewhere. The holidays in this programme are based on one family travelling in one car. Deviations from this could lead to problems on some campsites and are therefore at the client's own risk and expense. Go4Camp does not allow any persons under the age of 23 unless accompanied by adults. Go4camp also reserves the right to refuse bookings to any persons, particularly groups, without stating reasons. Group bookings can only be made by telephone. The booking will be accepted or not depending on the campsite and the composition, size and ages of those in the group. We do not accept any liability for loss, theft, damage or injury to any guests using accommodations provided by Go4Camp. Guests using the safes provided by the campsite do so at their own risk and Go4Camp cannot accept liability for any theft or damage to these safes/lockable closets. Anyone using the accommodations provided by Go4Camp are required to adhere to the rules of conduct, laid down by the campsite owner. In the event of any violation of these rules, the campsite owner and Go4Camp both reserve the right to refuse admission to the campsite or accommodations. Our campsite representatives are not authorised to act on behalf of Go4Camp regarding any liabilities. In the low season (spring and autumn), some campsite owners have to keep some of their facilities, like swimming pools, shops or entertainment, closed or only open at certain times, without notifying us. Specified opening and closing dates of facilities, such as swimming amenities and entertainment, and so on, are subject to approval. Shorts and bathing caps are not always allowed in the swimming pools. This website has been compiled with the utmost care based on the information available in November 2013. We cannot accept responsibility for any changes in circumstance during the holiday season. Nor do we accept responsibility for unforeseen circumstances, such as weather conditions, construction work on site, pests and vermin, noise pollution, the functioning of campsite facilities (e.g. swimming pools or WIFI), and other circumstances for which the campsite owner is accountable. There is a (small) charge for the use of some of the facilities or activities on the campsite. The photographs and drawings shown here serve to give an impression of the destination and/or accommodation. No legal liability can be derived from them. Any cases not covered by these terms and conditions will be submitted to the Management, who will decide on the appropriate course of action. Pets are only allowed in our bungalow tents (not allowed on all campsites) and in Casa Deluxe mobile homes. If you bring a pet into one of the accommodations or campsites where pets are not allowed, Go4Camp reserves the right to refuse admission to the campsite or accommodation.
If you go on holiday with two or more families, you may want adjoining accommodations. Or you may prefer a shady spot or a place near the pool. We kindly request you to state any preferences when making your booking. Obviously, we will do our utmost to comply with your request. However, we cannot guarantee this unless you have booked a "next-to-each-other" guarantee (i.e. preference paid for in advance). Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that we can comply with your request even if you have booked early, or if you have been a loyal customer of Go4Camp's for many years, unless a suitable tent or mobile home happens to be available on your arrival. If your request cannot be met, for whatever reason, you will not be notified beforehand. You may find that our accommodation pitches have changed compared to the previous year. Please note that 'adjoining' also refers to accommodations facing each other, back-to-back, diagonally opposite to each other, etc. In other words, there should be no accommodation between you and the other family.
Errors and omissions
Errors and omissions on our website are not binding. We reserve the right to change any errors and omissions that may have occurred.
We always do our utmost to ensure that there is no cause for complaints. However, despite our efforts, you may have reason to lodge a legitimate complaint. If so, we kindly request you to contact our campsite representative and lodge your complaint as soon as possible. They will do everything in their power to solve the problem. If you are convinced that your complaint has not been solved satisfactorily, you can call your booking agency.
If you are not satisfied with the solution, you are requested to contact the campsite representative immediately and write a complaint report together. This report needs to be signed by both of you. You are also required to send us your complaint in writing no later than one month after returning home. In addition, you need to fill in a questionnaire. However, this questionnaire is not an official letter of complaint and therefore we strongly advise you not to mention your complaint in this questionnaire. If you do mention your complaint in the questionnaire, we will read it but will not regard it as an official complaint. Any complaints submitted after the deadline or not signed by the campsite representative cannot be taken into consideration. If you have not followed the procedure as stated here, then unfortunately, your complaint cannot be dealt with in retrospect.
The holidays offered on our website remain camping holidays, no matter how luxurious and comfortable they are. It is important to note, especially for those who have never gone on a camping holiday before, that our campsites are usually fully booked in July and August. If your first holiday priorities are peace and quiet and privacy, we recommend that you avoid these months. A holiday abroad also means being with people who have different cultures and customs , as well as different norms and values. For instance, in Mediterranean countries, people generally enjoy a midday siesta, during which the swimming pools and gates are closed. These are important factors to bear in mind when choosing your holiday.


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The Lonely Girl – Chapter 5 – Just Another Day
January 3, 2015
Elise settles in behind her desk flicking open her notebook, she hits the start button. While waiting for her computer to start up she looks up around the office noticing the chairs and tables already filling up with their inhabitants.
Taking a sip of her coffee Elise scans the newspapers on her table looking for any good news of the day.
"Theft, homicide, snatch theft-homicide, fatal accident, scandalous politician, homicide, homicide, another accident, gahh why do I even bother reading the news?" Elise mumbles in exasperation and she flipped the page less than gracefully. A loud rip tears through the office and a few heads hunched over desks pop up like groundhogs surveying for predators.
"Angry much?", said Carol as she walks pass Elise's desk.
"Heheh, sorry. It's just a frustrating day for the news, and…" Elise let her words trail off as she realised everyone
had gone back to whatever occupied their busy minds and she was once again 'talking to herself'.
As the day crawled on at a snail-like pace, Elise fidgeted in her seat. Work has begun to feel mundane and her bones ached like they needed to be stretched and her joints had that uncomfortable yet weirdly compelling need to be popped.
"Elise? Elise? Yoohoo!"
Startling her out of her silent reverie, she looked up to see Eddy with a stack of files looking at her in puzzlement.
"What were you so deep in thought about?"
"Bonsai kittens."
"Oooh kayy. I don't think I should ask for an explanation. But I should probably warn you that it's illegal. And downright cruel and.."
"Oh gee relax! I'm not gonna create a Bonsai Kitten! I don't even like cats. Much less a disfigured one!"
"Umm okayy. But You'll probably change your mind about kittens when you see the Kitten Therapy video. I'll send it to you. It's the cutest thing ever!"
"Well what brings you over? Has Mr Chan made you the office dispatch now too? Eddy, you should really learn to say no to fetching and carrying other people's files and stuff."
"It's really no biggie. I could use the exercise anyway. I'm working on my guns," Eddy says while flexing his biceps and almost drops the weight he's carrying.
"Geez Eddy! Okok! Careful with that!"
"Hehe. I'm still working on the whole balance thing. Anywhoo… I gotta jet. But hey, a bunch of us are heading over to
Malone's after work. You wanna join us?"
"Umm, well…."
"Oh come on! It'll be fun! And it is a Friday night anyway. What other sad plans have you got anyway? I'll meet you at the foyer after work. Layters!"
"But, but…", Elise sighed as Eddy walked away, maneuvering skillfully pass the cubicles.
As 6pm drew closer, Elise felt that familiar knot in her stomach return. Somewhere between impatience and anticipation, she silently kicked herself for actually looking forward to the night out with a bunch of people she hardly knew.
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Malone's was a little bar along a quieter street two blocks from the office. The bar was already piled with people as
Elise walked through the doors with Eddy and his colleague, Jeanne. There was a loud cheer from the table by the bar and a few voices could be heard over the din of chatter and music beckoning the trio over.
"Hey guys! You remember Jeanne right? Well this is Elise. Elise, meet, James, Quentin, Lee, you know Carol, Raj from purchasing, and Tom from Design," said Eddy making introductions.
Elise had her hand extended and shook everyone's till Tom was being introduced and her breath caught as as Tom gripped her hand in a firm handshake. He looked intently into her eyes and smiled. "Hi Elise. It's so nice to finally, officially meet you.
Elise smiled in return gazing into the eyes that had been making itself comfortable in her daydreams. The wide brown eyes of Tom.
The evening wasn't quite as bad as she imaged and Elise felt herself letting down her walls bit by bit as she drank her
pint of Stella and got to know her colleagues. She noticed how at ease everyone felt with each other. Even Tom, being new and all already had inside jokes with Raj and Eddy. She noticed how Carol the momma of the group kept tabs on how much everyone was drinking and insisted it was not a night for shots. So everyone was just nestling their pints as they unwound for the evening.
Elise said little but she was intent on listening and this little group of mismatched individuals intrigued her. She found out that James and Quentin went to grad school together and wound up at the same company. Lee worked in legal on the 12th floor and found everyone there incredibly boring. Raj had been at company orientation together with Eddy and their matching shirts kickstarted their friendship. Jeanne worked with Eddy and was the preetiest girl on the floor but all except her realised it.
"What about you Elise?"
Startled at hearing her name, Elise blinked as she realised all eyes were fixed on her.
"Huh? I'm sorry, I spaced out for a minute there."
"We were just talking about our weekend plans. What are you doing tomorrow?" Tom asked.
"Umm… It'll be just another day I spose. I haven't really thought about it."
"It's settled then. You'll be coming with me," said Tom grinning.
"What? Where?" said Elise, startled.
"Just be ready by 6am, dress comfy and make sure you have your hiking shoes on."
Elise found herself unable to protest as those wide brown eyes looked intently at her and all she could do was nod in resigned agreement.

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The Doctor Is In
Dr. John's Crescent City Swamp-Funk Blues Are About To Flood Our Humble Town
By Ron Bally
OCTOBER 20, 1997: SWAMP-FUNK BLUES pianist Dr. John is synonymous with the rollicking good-time party vibes of Mardi Gras, the French Quarter and the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
He's also a pioneer in the richly historic and vastly influential, elite Crescent City r&b/blues/pop music scene, a musical gumbo of talent which boasts such legendary performers as Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, Dave Bartholomew, and the Neville Brothers.
Three-time Grammy Award winner Dr. John headlines the first-annual House of Blues Presents U.S. tour, making a stop at UA Centennial Hall this week.
He and his three-piece combo will helm the nine-week tour, visiting 41 cities. They'll be supported by harp virtuoso Charlie Musselwhite and 1997 Grammy winning (for Best Contemporary Blues Album) steel guitarist-songwriter Keb' Mo'.
Dr. John returns in support of his latest album, Trippin' Live--his first "official" live recording--released last summer. "We played (Tucson) on a B.B. King tour when it was, like, 128 degrees or something," recalls Dr. John in his gruff, baritone-rich voice. Unlike the recent Trippin' Live document, which is bolstered by an eight-piece band featuring three horns and an extra percussionist, the pianist-vocalist has pared down his live line-up to include guitarist Bobby Brown, bassist David Barard and drummer Herman V. Ernest, III.
Asked if he considers himself a "legendary blues pianist," as his press release so proudly champions, he declares without a trace of cynicism, "I just consider myself a guy who plays the piano--I love to play the blues."
"I started off as a studio guitar player back in the '50s, and basically, I was wanting to be a T-Bone Walker--so that's the blues. If people ain't aware of the blues, they're missing the one thing American culture ever produced. I think if it wasn't for jazz, blues and gospel music, there wouldn't be too much culture in this country," he says.
According to his colorful, soul-baring 1994 autobiography Under A Hoodoo Moon (co-written with Jack Rummel), recently released in paperback, Dr. John was born Malcolm "Mac" Rebennack in the Third Ward district of New Orleans on November 21, 1940. His mother was a model and his father owned a record store. By his early teens he was an accomplished pianist and guitarist. He developed a relationship with many musicians from working at his father's store and hanging out at record producer Cosimo Matassa's J&M studio. By the mid-'50s, he was in high demand as a session guitarist for Professor Longhair, Frankie Ford, Joe Tex and Little Richard. In the '60s he began to produce and arrange for others (Lee Allen, Red Tyler, Earl Palmer, Eddie Bo and Paul Gayten) and to record songs on his own.
In 1961, he was forced to retire his six-string instrument when he was shot in the hand during a barroom brawl. Dr. John admits his life probably would've turned out differently as a guitarist if his left ring finger weren't disabled, but he's at peace with himself and indifferent about the outcome of his reconstructive surgery.
"Oh, I'm cool with it. It doesn't make a difference," he says. "I just love to play music. Oh, I'm sure it would've been different, but that's how it is."
He concentrated on the keyboard, moved to L.A. and became a session regular, working on numerous records for arranger/producer Harold Battiste, Sonny Bono, the O'Jays, and more notably, mega-producer Phil Spector. Although he cites Professor Longhair's native Caribbean-meets-Mardi Gras Indian music as having the biggest impact on his piano technique, he does acknowledge the influence of others. He specifically mentions Toussaint, James Booker and Huey "Piano" Smith as influencing his piano playing style.
He classifies his unique approach to banging on those 88 keys as "a combination of a lot of New Orleans piano players mixed with some guys like Ray Charles, Charles Brown and Lloyd Glenn."
According to The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, in 1964 Rebbenack fused the emergence of West Coast acid rock with New Orleans rhythm-and-blues to create his alter-ego, the mystical, voodoo-inspired frontman, Dr. John Creaux the Night Tripper (later shortened to Dr. John). His critically acclaimed debut, Gris Gris, released in 1968 on Atco Records, featured the oft-covered "I Walk On Guilded Splinters," recently sampled by rap group PM Dawn in 1992, and on Beck's 1994 Billboard Top 10 hit, "Loser."
Dr. John says he doesn't mind all the sampling that goes on today. "Music is freely created and freely out there for the taking," he says. "Yeah, Beck's cool...I saw him the other night with Willie Nelson singing an old Jimmie Rodgers song. And I used to love Jimmie Rodgers...."
The Gris Gris album was a unique mixture of traditional Creole chants, spooky voodoo imagery and traces of psychedelia, which coalesced with Mardi Gras excess in Dr. John's on-stage Indian costumes (vividly colored, ornamental robes and wildly feathered headdresses), and his troupe of exotic dancers and singers.
He acquired a rabid local following, which included Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger, who both performed on his London-recorded 1971 effort, The Sun, Moon and Herbs. He then headed toward the more accessible avenues of funk/r&b with In The Right Place in 1973. Produced by Toussaint, and backed by the Meters, the album spawned Dr. John's biggest hits: "Right Place, Wrong Time," which reached No. 9 on the Billboard singles charts; and "Such A Night," which topped off at No. 42. In The Right Place was also his highest charting album, peaking at No. 24 on the Billboard charts.
For nearly three decades, and well into the late-'80s, Dr. John was an out-of-control juke-joint hustling, whore-chasing, full-blown heroin addict. His notorious back-alley drug dealings and shady wheeling-and-dealing misadventures, which eventually landed him a stint in the Louisiana State penitentiary, are meticulously documented in Under The Hoodoo Moon. He's been drug-free now for "almost eight years."
Though he's hesitant to give advice on the subject, he offers that "there's other ways to live."
"Drugs always seem to have a way of being in people's faces. And I don't think my sayin' nothing is gonna have a lot of affect on nobody. My advice is if they wanna stop--go kick. Look, it's a weird thing. Doc (Pomus) used to tell me, 'Will you please quit shootin' that dope in my bathroom? You're gonna die in there. What can I do? I'm gonna be stuck in my goddamn wheelchair worrying about it.' I loved Doc. And it used to make me feel like shit to hear that. But on the other side of it, until I was ready to do something for me, it didn't matter with him or what anybody else said or did--it had to come from me."
Pomus, with partner Mort Shuman, co-wrote "Save The Last Dance For Me," "This Magic Moment," "Viva Las Vegas," and co-produced Jimmy Witherspoon's "Midnight Lady Calls The Blues" with Dr. John in 1987. Wheelchair-bound since childhood because of a crippling bout with polio, Pomus died in 1991. On the 1995 tribute album Till The Night Is Gone: A Tribute To Doc Pomus, Dr. John performs "I'm On A Roll."
"Doc was one of my favorite people," he says.
In 1989, Dr. John returned to his traditional New Orleans roots--while also craftily mainstreaming his down home funky appeal. He scored a huge hit, and his first Grammy, for his duet with Ricky Lee Jones on "Makin' Whoopee," a sophisticated, jazzy-pop gem featured on the album In A Sentimental Mood, an eclectic collection of old blues, jazz and romantic pop standards. Dr. John garnered his second Grammy--for Best Traditional Blues Album--in 1992 with Goin' Back To New Orleans, cataloguing selections from the 1850s to the 1950s. The all-star cast of New Orleans musicians who appeared on this recording included Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, Danny Barker and the Neville Brothers.
This past April, he accepted a third Grammy for his contribution to the star-studded Stevie Ray Vaughn tribute album featuring Clapton, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Rait and B.B. King.
In recent years, his distinctive voice has become familiar to millions through a number of TV commercial jingles and voice-over work. He makes some decent money recording them, but can't recall-- or, more likely, chooses not to remember--any of them. "I do them (jingles) and they're out of my head," he says succinctly.
His plans include getting married again ("very soon" is as specific as he'd get) and hitting the recording studio in December.
"I'm expecting to cut some funky stuff, and hopefully get Allen Toussaint to produce some of it," says Dr. John. "I don't intend to cut anymore large band stuff."
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6 Ways to Improve Your Product Catalog for Marketplace Success
If you are reading this, you probably work in, or closely with, e-commerce. Often being inside the industry makes it difficult for us to view our work with the detachment of an outsider. However, when you consider what makes a quality catalog, you have to think like someone who doesn't search for products by UPC, ASIN, SKU, ISBN, MPN, or ISJKNC (don't worry, you shouldn't know what that last acronym means because I made it up 🙂 ). In other words, you need to set your insider hat aside and think like the average online shopper to truly improve your product catalog.
How Shoppers Discover Products Online
Finding the right products online typically takes one or more of these four paths. The shopper goes to a search engine like Google or Bing and finds the items they seek. They go directly to merchant websites, marketplaces like eBay or Amazon or stumble upon interesting products on social media platforms like Pinterest and Facebook.
Whatever their first stop may be, you want to make sure that the process of product discovery is as frictionless as possible, offering shoppers options to quickly find, view, compare and decide on their final choice with as little back and forth as possible. Here are some ideas on how to ease the process of product discovery:
- Polish your search capabilities to offer the right product to the right customer.
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- Build data-rich product pages – this means the shopper doesn't need to go anywhere else (e.g. the manufacturer's site) to learn more about the product
- Avoid 'post-click' searching and scrolling, i.e. don't make the shopper hunt all over the product detail page for key information. Present it upfront to minimize the effort on their end
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However, all of these steps are secondary.
The first step towards greater product discovery (and eventually, better conversions!) is providing shoppers with clean, complete and consistent product data.
While there are numerous ways to optimize product data for e-commerce, you need to get these six basics right before you start seeing the dollars rolling in. So, here goes.
Product Titles
Titles are what tell the customer, "This is the product you want." Nobody is going to click on a link to a product unless they know exactly what it is. Take sweatpants as an example. Say Jimmy likes to shop for his Adidas three-quarter length sweats online. You are Soccer Emporium LLC, and you sell exactly what Jimmy is looking for! Hooray! Transaction done, right? Well, the title of your three-quarter length Adidas sweat pants comes up as "¾ Length Sweat Pants" on the search page. That is just not good enough for Jimmy. When he looks for his sweats he wants to know:
- the size
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- the quantity
Jimmy doesn't want to have to click into the product detail page to get this information. Online shoppers are fickle; you need to make a good first impression. Here's what you need to know:
Better click-through rates (CTRs) with 'browse' sessions: A clear and complete product title improves click-through rates on your listing even if a shopper is merely browsing through a product category using the website's original navigational hierarchy.
Better rankings on 'search' sessions: Having this information in the title also helps your products rank better on marketplaces. Information in your product title gets picked up by marketplace algorithms when they decide which products to surface in a search and in what order. Thus, having search relevant information in your title is an easy way to boost your search rankings.
Let's take this title for example:
Original Product Title: American Tourister Brookfield 3 PC Set
If you notice, while this title references the brand name, it does not reference the category name – potentially, an extremely costly omission. It also abbreviates important keywords, making it harder for algorithms and shoppers to spot the item. For your product to be picked up and listed in a search, this is potentially the type of title you'd be shooting for:
Revised Product Title: American Tourister Brookfield 3 Piece Luggage Set
Product Images
Your main image is the customer's first taste of the product. Make sure that it is a high resolution picture of the product. A nice image brings legitimacy to you as a seller. Images are also important post-click as you can show your product in use, or from several angles. The more images the better. This is especially true on higher ticket items. If the customer is going to shell out big money, they want to be certain they're getting exactly what they want.
Recommended Image Formats
You may use TIFF (.tif/.tiff), JPEG (.jpeg/.jpg), GIF (.gif) or PNG (.png) formats for your images. As mentioned earlier, the better the image resolution, the happier your customers will be. Having the ability to zoom deeply into a product image replaces the touch and feel aspect of shopping that e-commerce typically lacks.
Image Background
A white background works for most sites (it's a pre-requisite on Amazon). If you have images of your product in use or a video that demonstrates the product, make sure you include them in your listing.
Image Dimensions
Obviously the bigger the better. However, aim for at least 1,000-pixel length or width for images.
Lead Product Image
Make sure you play it safe with your lead image. Go with just the product against a white background to get the most bang for your buck on marketplaces. Save your "lifestyle" and "use" pictures for the secondary images.
Your product price plays a huge role in how much action your listing gets. In a marketplace environment, you're competing with potentially hundreds of sellers offering exactly the same item as you. Price becomes an important differentiator in such a scenario. If you offer the lowest price for a particular SKU, there's a good chance that your listing will see increased traffic, better conversions and ultimately more sales. One caveat, though. Never lose sight of product margins in your hurry to offer low prices and win a sale.
Whether you sell on your own website or syndicate your catalog to marketplaces, dynamic pricing is an important pricing consideration that can make your offerings more competitive. Dynamic pricing refers to the ability to modify the price of your product in real-time (or near real time). If you are a DemandStream user, you can leverage our Amazon Repricing tool to win the 'buy box' and the sale more often. With it you can set pricing floors, beat your competitors' prices based on percentage or dollar amounts, only offer free shipping when the competition is doing so, and so much more. This topic warrants a blog post in and of itself.
Another aspect to consider when deciding product prices, is when to offer free shipping. There's reams of research to support the fact that most of us already implicitly know – online shoppers want free shipping. Seriously, give it to them. Use the ideas listed here to reduce how much you pay for shipping, thus enabling you to offer your customers free or at the very least, low cost shipping.
Having relevant keywords makes the product searchable. This should not be a stagnant value. Play with the keyword values and test which ones are driving the most search traffic to your products.
If you're a DemandStream user, you can utilize content rules to dynamically generate keywords based on other product data in your catalog.
Keywords need to stay under a 50-character limit. On Amazon, the number of keywords you can submit per product is dependent on category. So, certain categories allow for more keywords than others. Remember to check the upper limit for your specific product categories so you don't under-utilize this resource.
Don't use brand or title information as keywords, as this will already be picked up by the marketplace's search algorithms. Since, most marketplaces limit the number of keywords you can include, be extremely prudent about which words to use as keywords in your listing and avoid duplicates.
Another important, but oft-overlooked factor, is to steer clear of any punctuation inside the keyword fields. All those commas and semi colons separating your keywords? Yeah, get rid of them to avoid confusing the search app. A good old space between your keywords does just fine.
Product Descriptions (Bite the Bullet-points!)
A clear, yet engaging product description helps shoppers decide on whether to hit 'Buy' or not. A good way to highlight the unique selling propositions (USP) of your products would be to put the most important features about the product in bullet points. They show just to the right or below the product image on most sites so there is no scrolling required. Don't make the customer work to find this information.
Accurate, Logical Category Mapping
Depending on the types of products that you sell, your product categorization could make or break your online presence. Like any retail store—electronic or not—there are often two types of shoppers. There are those who know what they want when they walk through the virtual door and then there are those who have no idea at all. If you are an apparel retailer, for example, you will have a lot of shoppers who are truly browsing. Having accurate, high-quality categories on your website and on marketplaces helps customers compare apples to apples (or dresses to dresses). Product filters allow customers to narrow down their options and these are informed by what category is mapped for each individual product.
One way to guarantee your apples are going in the right baskets when selling online is to utilize DemandStream's Category Classification and Category Mapping tools. These tools help you map your products to the correct categories across all of the channels that DemandStream supports (which is quite a laundry list). The best part is, once you have mapped your categories to the DemandStream taxonomy, you won't have to worry about doing it ever again. It is very much a one and done scenario. That is, of course, unless you change your category structure
Wrapping Up
A clean, consistent and commerce-ready product catalog is your most important tool to win more customers and grow revenues consistently. From syndicating your products on marketplaces to listing them on online product advertising channels like Google Shopping, to surfacing your products on organic searches on search engines, it all begins with high quality product data. Need help crafting better product content? Contact us and let us show you how we can work our magic on your product data.


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The Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC MP has today announced that the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) David Green CB QC has had his contract extended by 2 years until 20 April 2018. In announcing his re-appointment the Attorney General Jeremy Wright QC MP said:
"In his time as Director of the SFO David Green led a change in the organisation's approach to prosecuting cases and delivered the first UK Deferred Prosecution Agreement and the first convictions under the Bribery Act 2010. I look forward to working with him in the next phase of his leadership of the Serious Fraud Office."
The announcement comes on the back of the SFO's success yesterday in securing guilty verdicts in a £45m investment fraud scheme.
What awaits David Green in the next two years?
Funding will be a critical issue. In 2014/15, with a budget of £35.2m, the SFO asked for an additional £26.5m to cover "significant investigations and to settle liabilities". The 2015-16 budget was reduced to £33.8m but in January 2016, the Solicitor General informed the House of Commons that the SFO sought a cash injection of £21.1m, including an advance of £15.5m to meet "an urgent cash requirement."
Bolstered by his extension we can expect David Green to continue his campaign for reform of the law on corporate criminal liability, and in particular the adoption of the US system of vicarious liability for corporates. The UK Anti-Corruption Summit in May could be a useful platform for him to call for the Ministry of Justice to make progress in this area. The MoJ needs a push. Last autumn it rejected Mr Green's request for a new offence of corporate failure to prevent economic crime. The Ministry argued at the time that "there is little evidence of corporate economic wrongdoing going unpunished."
Aside from legislative reform, we can expect the SFO to take a more confident approach to privilege following its recent success in the Divisional Court. The court upheld the legality of SFO procedures for dealing with material potentially subject to legal professional privilege (LPP) embedded in electronic devices that have been seized using statutory powers, or produced in response to a notice (R (McKenzie) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office [2016] EWHC 102 (Admin)). There have also been recent press reports to the effect that Barclays has now decided to abandon a claim for LPP that it had made over certain material in the possession of the SFO in connection with its investigation into the circumstances of the bank's capital raisings in 2008.
We can also expect further proposals for deferred prosecution agreements to be put before the courts in 2016, following strong signals from the SFO that more are in the pipeline (David Green's speech to the Economic Crime Symposium 2015), though it remains to be seen how the courts will treat cases. It seems certain that co-operation by companies at a very early stage will be a key component of future agreements. (As set out by Ben Morgan, Joint head of Bribery and Corruption, in a speech at the Managing Risk and Mitigating Litigation Conference 2015).
Finally, we await the outcome of the SFO's consideration as to whether to tighten up its current guidance concerning the attendance of independent legal advisers at section 2 interviews. It has signalled that it will place more conditions in future on such attendance, scarred it appears by the behaviour of some firms in the past. Any significant tightening of its current approach is likely, however, to be counter-productive and lead to a loss of goodwill with firms that by and large are supportive of the SFO's continued existence.