Home > News & Events

News from Shop Local & Bridge

  1. News from Us
  2. News from Members
  3. Events
  4. Press
  5. Strategy: Dollars & Sense
  6. Profile Stories
  7. New Software Features & Updates
  8. Training Calendar
  9. Training Videos
  10. Jobs
  1. News from Us
  2. News from Members
  3. Events
  4. Press
  5. Dollars & Sense
  6. Profile Stories
  7. Updates
  8. Training Calendar
  9. Training Videos
  10. Jobs
+ Bridge in the News - Bridge in the News

545 Results:

July 12, 2022 Super Subscriptions 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦹🏽‍♂️
Chalk 22255 picture
Super Subscriptions 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦹🏽‍♂️
July 12, 2022
This past week, Amazon announced it was adding Grubhub delivery to its Prime subscription (Read the news about Amazon and Grubhub here). The goal of Amazon Prime (and other subscription services) is to make the subscription so pervasive that it's sticky. Don’t like Prime movies? Ok, but you love free Grubhub delivery. If you don’t need feature X and want to cancel, you realize you still need feature Y and keep paying for the subscription. 

This past week, The Wall St. Journal...
Read More
July 6, 2022 $200 Off Your Atlanta Order
Chalk 21813 picture
$200 Off Your Atlanta Order
July 6, 2022
Bridge has teamed up with 23 premium brands to offer an exciting promotion. A retailer can place an order at the Atlanta show and get $200 off its wholesale order.  The store will receive a free Bridge account. The account will contain the products the store ordered.  With this solution, a store can quickly promote and sell what it just bought at the show.  The store's Bridge account will also contain other products that the brand offers. With this approach, the stores can quickly...
Read More
July 6, 2022 'Dem Apps 🍎
Chalk 21811 picture
'Dem Apps 🍎
July 6, 2022
In the movie Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon, who plays a handsome MIT janitor moonlighting as a math savant (can one say, “Hollywood career vehicle”?), woos a young lady (played by the actress Minnie Driver) by outmaneuvering a few competing, obnoxious cads. When Damon’s character gets the girl's telephone number, he proudly shows it to the other guys and boasts, with his South Boston access, “How 'bout ‘dem apples?”  I imagine Tim Cook imitating this...
Read More
June 21, 2022 $200 Off Your Wholesale Order
Chalk 21790 picture
$200 Off Your Wholesale Order
June 21, 2022
FOR RETAILERS

Bridge has teamed up with four brands to offer an exciting promotion. Stores can place an order at the Dallas or Atlanta shows and get $200 off their wholesale order.  The store will receive a free Bridge account. The account will contain the products the store ordered.  With this solution, a store can quickly promote and sell what it just bought at the show.  The Bridge account will also contain other products that the brand offers. With this approach, the stores...
Read More
May 26, 2022 Joseph Ribkoff Trunk Show Thursday, June 2nd!
Chalk 21738 picture
Joseph Ribkoff Trunk Show Thursday, June 2nd!
May 26, 2022
 Join us at a Joseph Ribkoff Trunk Show at the Squirrel Hill Cheeks, 5873 Forbes Avenue. 20% off all Joseph Ribkoff, ONE DAY ONLY, Thursday June 2nd from 10 - 6. The JR rep will have late Summer, Fall, and Holiday styles. Cheeks in Squirrel Hill is located on Forbes between Murray and Shady avenues.
Gorgeous beautiful fun! 😊 Hope to see you there! 🥰
 
Click here to see store info on our Cheeks website. View Post
May 26, 2022 Shop our Memorial Day Linen Sale! All Matouk and Sferra items discounted 20%!
Chalk 21737 picture
Shop our Memorial Day Linen Sale! All Matouk and Sferra items discounted 20%!
May 26, 2022
Shop all Sferra, 20% off - now through Monday. Use code Sferra20 at checkout. 

Shop all Matouk, 20% off - Saturday through Monday. Use code Matouk20 at checkout.  View Post
May 11, 2022 NYT: More Registrants Want Cash...And We're Not Talking Gift Cards
Chalk 21692 picture
NYT: More Registrants Want Cash...And We're Not Talking Gift Cards
May 11, 2022
This week's Times shares that brides are increasingly asking for cash gifts. This trend pulls back the curtain on the underbelly of wedding gifts.  Over the last 20 years, a trend emerged where a bride would ask for a traditional gift (i.e. a crystal champagne flute set, a fine china plate, etc.) but then redeem the credit for a television or vacuum. The stores that were especially adept at this were the big-box stores with a wide variety of offerings like Macy's and Target. They would use ...
Read More
May 11, 2022 Bus-ta Move 🚌
Chalk 21691 picture
Bus-ta Move 🚌
May 11, 2022
In Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0, which the Bridge team is currently reading, the author Jim Collins confesses that he missed a key ingredient 25 years ago when he wrote the first edition. He states that he now realizes the most important part of achieving a great company is: getting the right people 'on the bus.’  I agree. Fourteen and a half years ago (long before I opened this book), I was lucky enough to pick up the right ‘passenger:' Moshe replied to my job posting (...
Read More
April 25, 2022 Checklists Can Help Save Lives and Main Street ✅
Chalk 21658 picture
Checklists Can Help Save Lives and Main Street ✅
April 25, 2022
In a 2007 article in The New Yorker, Atul Gawande, a surgeon and an author, advocated that more hospitals use checklists. He cited many medical studies showing how checklists save lives (and money).  Implementing one checklist, a hospital "…prevented forty-three infections and eight deaths, and saved two million dollars in costs."  The startling part: the list was only five steps long! In other words, people don’t consistently follow...
Read More
March 28, 2022 Globalization's Effects on Hiring and Shopping Local 🖼
Globalization's Effects on Hiring and Shopping Local 🖼
March 28, 2022
Some people like to sit on the sofa and eat Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. I roll my eyes at this because I’m very different: I like to read the Wall St. Journal’s Christopher Mims …while eating an entire pint of Ben & Jerry’s on the sofa. This past weekend, Mr. Mims suggested companies may be reassessing where they source products, some even considering more domestic production. The motivation for this started a few years ago with the U.S.-China trade war, ...
Read More
March 23, 2022 Customer Acquisition Costs & Online Strategies
Chalk 21550 picture
Customer Acquisition Costs & Online Strategies
March 23, 2022
An article in today’s Times cites the high cost of acquiring customers, which ranges from $100 to $800.  Excerpt: 

“Estimates of an often-cited retail metric known as customer acquisition costs range from $100 to more than $800 per customer, said Daniel McCarthy, a professor at Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business, who has done extensive research in the field.”

Physical retail is one of the most expensive ways to acquire customers. An online ...
Read More
March 18, 2022 Brands: Get $500 for Helping Your Stores
Chalk 21542 picture
Brands: Get $500 for Helping Your Stores
March 18, 2022
We have a new promotion for brands:

Bridge is giving a brand $500 when it emails stores about its Bridge program. This is a double win for the brand:
  • The brand gets paid to send this email.
  • Stores that sign up will sell 18% more from the brand.
In some cases, brands have asked us to draft the emails on their behalf.  The brand just hits the "send" button.

View Examples
Please find examples of emails that brands have sent here:
https://marketplace....
Read More
March 15, 2022 Walmart+, Disney+ ...Bridge+?
Chalk 21530 picture
Walmart+, Disney+ ...Bridge+?
March 15, 2022
Businesses like Walmart, Disney, and Discovery are bundling services and adding the “+” suffix to denote them (e.g.  Disney+, Discovery+, W+, etc.). In a recent article in RetailDive, we learn that Walmart is giving its customers free, six-month trial Spotify accounts. I think W+ bundling services is smart.  Last week, I compared running a gym to offering software. I spoke about bundling services with things that people like to increase their usage, such as work ...
Read More
March 6, 2022 Our Digital Gym 🏋️‍♀️
Chalk 21508 picture
Our Digital Gym 🏋️‍♀️
March 6, 2022
In a recent NY Times article about working out, the author Christie Aschwanden gives readers tips on how to make working out more enjoyable. (Read the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/well/move/habits-motivation-exercise.html). In reading this, I saw many parallels between working out and helping our stores get their websites ‘in shape.’ The author encourages readers to not think of working out as exercise and instead think of it as "hanging out with friends...
Read More
February 15, 2022 Last Place...and Winning 🏁
Chalk 21468 picture
Last Place...and Winning 🏁
February 15, 2022
This past weekend on the way to Florida to visit my brothers, I read about Squarespace’s advertising history. (Read the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/13/business/how-did-squarespace-know-podcasts-would-get-this-big.html).  In 2009, Anthony Casalena, the founder of Squarespace, paid $20,000 to advertise on a tech podcast. While that was a lot for a small, young company (Casalena had started his business just six years earlier in a dorm room in 2003), Casalena said the ...
Read More
February 9, 2022 What's In a Brand Name™️?
Chalk 21458 picture
What's In a Brand Name™️?
February 9, 2022
I recently saw an advertisement for Windows 11 in Wired magazine. I thought: “Wow, finally something  from Microsoft that someone can understand: a logical name for their software offering.” I recall a time when Microsoft had a confusing litany of software names including: NT, 98, 2000, Millennium (ME), Windows XP, and Vista--before finally relegating those clumsy names to the desktop recycle bin and adopting a simple, progressive number system.  Apple has been naming its ...
Read More
January 26, 2022 Is Amazon's 'Viral' Growth Due to Mobile Phones?
Chalk 21428 picture
Is Amazon's 'Viral' Growth Due to Mobile Phones?
January 26, 2022
Scott Galloway, a business leader and NYU professor, shares that we're now spending over 4 hours a day on our mobile phones--up from just 20 minutes in 2010. (…I wrote part of this post on my iPhone.) What does this mean? Lots of opportunities for Amazon--as well as Facebook, Instagram, and other tech titans--to sell to us. Our cell phones are, in essence, 1,000 'buy buttons' in our pockets (or on our nightstands) that encourage us to buy stuff online, any time of the day. 

I ...
Read More
January 23, 2022 Jason Gets Put Under the Microscope 🔬
Chalk 22254 picture
Jason Gets Put Under the Microscope 🔬
January 23, 2022
Jim Collins, in his book BE 2.0, explains how purpose and mission are important to companies. To help explain this, he uses the metaphor of crossing a mountain range and seeing a star on the horizon. Your purpose is to reach the spot on the horizon below the star. The current mission is climbing up the mountain you’re on. The next mission is climbing up the next mountain and so forth in order to get closer to the spot on the horizon. You will have many missions, and may never ...
Read More
January 16, 2022 HFN: Amazon overtakes Bed Bath & Beyond’s lead in wedding registries
Chalk 21403 picture
HFN: Amazon overtakes Bed Bath & Beyond’s lead in wedding registries
January 16, 2022
HFN shares a study reporting that Amazon is now the leader in gift registry usage. The report, by investment bank Baird, states the leaders are:
  1. Amazon (45% of brides are registered at Amazon)
  2. Bed Bath & Beyond (30%)
  3. Target (26%)
  4. Crate & Barrel (15%) and Williams-Sonoma (15%)
Notably, Macy's is not even in the top-five list.

Compare the above with 2017's results:
  1. Bed Bath & Beyond (44%)
  2. Target (29%)
  3. Amazon (20%)
  4. Macy's (19%)
The report also shares ...
Read More
December 31, 2021 Cheers to a sparkling 2022!! Happy New Year! Bom.Ano.2022!🍾
Chalk 21357 picture
Cheers to a sparkling 2022!! Happy New Year! Bom.Ano.2022!🍾
December 31, 2021
🥂Let’s give 2021 a sparkling send off and share a toast to 2022!! 

🥂Our hearts are filled with gratitude as we raise our glass to you our loyal and passionate customers... our road representatives... Skyros Designs team… and to our wonderful friends in Portugal... ALL who are the reasons we exist!! We Thank You for Inspiring Us Every Day!! ❤️ 

🥂We wish you and your loved ones a joyous holiday and may your New Year be filled with peace, health, happiness, ...
Read More

Next page

Press: Shop Local & Bridge in the News
Tableware Today Column: Saying I Do To Registries
Tableware Today Column: Saying I Do To Registries
October 2024

Tableware Today: New Leaderboard Column from Shop Local
Tableware Today: New Leaderboard Column from Shop Local
August 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Florida Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Florida Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
April 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Tennessee Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Tennessee Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
April 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Louisiana Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Louisiana Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
April 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Delaware Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Delaware Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
April 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Pennsylvania Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Pennsylvania Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
March 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants Get Sales Leads in Mississippi
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants Get Sales Leads in Mississippi
March 2024

Shop Local Merchants Are 60% of Google Page 1 Results in South Carolina
Shop Local Merchants Are 60% of Google Page 1 Results in South Carolina
March 2024

Shop Local Merchants Are 50% of Google Page 1 Results in Georgia
Shop Local Merchants Are 50% of Google Page 1 Results in Georgia
March 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants Get More Sales Leads than Big-Box Stores Using Google
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants Get More Sales Leads than Big-Box Stores Using Google
February 2024

Shop Local Retailers Rank on Page 1 of Google in 60% of States
Shop Local Retailers Rank on Page 1 of Google in 60% of States
February 2024

...