When you start with a webshop you don't know what will come your way. And that's a good thing! It seems so simple, you build a webshop or have it built, you put your products on it and start selling! In practice, however, it is not that simple. When we got the idea over a year ago to start selling Italian bags in the Netherlands, we had an idea about what our website should look like: Tuscan look through use of color, category division, a personal touch, of course beautiful bags, that it had to be. The company name was still quite difficult, because a lot already existed. Until we came up with MariMarlo, a combination of our first names Marianne and Marloes. It sounded a bit Italian, didn't exist yet and with the addition of 'Bags & More' it nicely indicated what we wanted to do. Fortunately, we were able to...
Message in a Bottle After leaving the highway at Figline Valdarno we slow down the car and drive into the hills of the Chianti. Our fellow road users are harbingers on the relaxed way of life in this region. Turkeys meander on the road between olive trees on golden slopes. In front of us a sea full of blue sky floating on the clouds of the warm Tuscan sun. We are on our way to Tenuta Il Palagio, the sixteenth-century estate of the famous singer Sting and his wife Trudy Styler. While turning down the volume of The Police we enjoy the tranquility of this idyllic part of Italy. We make a stop at the ‘Farm Shop’ of Il Palagio. A friendly young lady helps us to select wines that we can taste for just a few euros. It won’t take long to make a choice because we have been looking...
