We are glad that Bugatti starts with the Bridge Catalog at such a great time like the Holidays. We hope you all are having the best time with your loved ones 🌲☃️✨🎁
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Last week, a gift shop in Alabama signed up for Bridge and had a coaching call with Jordyn, our retailer coach. Within one day, the retailer had a Bridge Store offering 15k products and a full suite of online services to serve its customers. (See the store's Bridge account here: https://shealeighs.bridgecatalog.com)
I’m even amazed at what our software can do! Our software requires a lot of parts to come together: our tech team codes the software, our coaches call the stores...
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6 12:30-2:30PM IN STORE BOOK SIGNING!
Hope to see you all at this fun book signing! @thebakermamablog, Maegan Brown will be at Heart's Desire Frisco signing her new book, "Spectacular Spreads". If you loved her first book, "Beautiful Boards", then this one will blow you away! It's a collection of event ideas, recipes and INCREDIBLE instructions and photographs to help you every step of the way!
Don't Miss It! (if you can't be there...
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Bridge allows a brand to load stock to its Bridge account. There is no charge to load stock. After a brand starts sharing stock via Bridge, the brand often wishes to promote the benefits of this service. In this example, Casafina's national sales manager is sharing with reps via an email the importance of real-time stock sharing. He says it is more accurate and saves time.
Steering customers towards in-stock product makes customers happier (no one likes back orders) and boosts sales for in-...
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This WSJ Shopify review compares some of the fees charged by Amazon and Shopify. It takes the author half the article before he starts sharing fee structures. (I’d have liked to see more statistics about fees charged and even a chart.)
Excerpts:
Shopify, founded in 2007 and now publicly traded, has 1.7 million sellers (note: that’s a brick-and-mortar store or a person in their basement; Shopify doesn’t differentiate).
A product starts in a factory. Then, the goal is get it through the sales funnel. What steps does it go through en route to the consumer? In the drawing shown, the dots represent steps along the way.
When a product travels through the Amazon arc, it skips many steps that are important for consumer safety, the lives of working people in the retail industry, and local communities. We realize its smile logo may actually be a visual representation of the safeguards and ...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Future Bridge Spokesperson?
Today's Wall St. Journal shares that Target stores saw a 20% increase in revenue--more than the chain had seen in the last 11 years combined. How did it do it? Target converted many of its physical stores into 'mini-warehouses,' where they can ship goods or have customers do curbside pick up.
What does this mean for indie stores? Stores will have to become more efficient in receiving online orders, which make up 40% of retail these ...
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Today’s Times reports on the recovery of the wedding industry—a topic dear to our hearts since Bridge has helped 50k couples with their gift registries.
Zola has added a "Home Store" tab to its site. The goal: become an online retailer that does it all...oh, and maybe does gift registries, too. Notably, this a departure from its original, registry-focused mission statement. Initially, Zola told brands that indie store gift registry services were not servicing out of the way towns and that by opening Zola, the brand would reach brides in remote parts of, say, Oklahoma. Zola didn't say that it was simply selling ...
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Valentine's Day is only a little over a week away. Are you ready?
Annieglass hearts make the perfect Valentine’s Day gift. This bold Cheetah print will leap right into your heart. Also available in Zebra print. Stop in to see more gift ideas.
More Valentine's gift ideas from Glassworks and Cheeks to come.
Shower your love with Kisses! Cheeks has so many great ideas for Valentine' Day lingerie, gifts, and sleepwear, like items from the P.J. Salvage Sealed With A Kiss collection (pictured).
More Valentine's gift ideas from Glassworks and Cheeks to come!
We are following state guidelines by sanitizing, social distancing, and wearing masks, so you must also. For a private shopping appointment, please email us or call 412-915-1803.
2020 was another tough year for retail after 2019, but there was some silver lining in that consumers moved money from trips to tabletop.
Excerpt:
"Therein lies something of a challenge for retail: The previous near-complete evaporation of consumer spending on entertainment and leisure freed up funds for the purchase of goods," Weinswig said.
All you need is LOVE! ?
Glassworks has so many beautiful hearts for Valentine’s Day!
Stay tuned to see more Valentine's gift ideas from Glassworks and Cheeks (like the Annieglass plates pictured).
We are following state guidelines by sanitizing, social distancing, and wearing masks, so you must also. For a private shopping appointment, please email us or call 412-915-1803.
Thank you to everyone who is supporting our ...
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Online sales grew 47.2% between Nov. 1 and Christmas Eve compared with the same period last year... Meanwhile, overall U.S. retail sales grew just 2.4%.
During the seven days leading up to Christmas Eve, store traffic fell 31.3% compared with last year.
This growth comes at some expense: selling online is generally less profitable than selling from stores.
Clothing was not a safe harbor: between Oct. 11 and Christmas Eve, sales of apparel fell 19.1%
Yiren Lu shares her experience of setting up a Shopify store in the New York Times magazine. Ms. Lu reports the setup process was easy, but her online Shopify store failed because it lacked marketing, aka eyeballs and orders. In her next article, I hope Ms. Lu tries Bridge. Bridge Store helps members fill the marketing component that Shopify is missing. When a store joins Bridge, Bridge instantly points hundreds of links to the store from other Bridge members, which Google sees and ...
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We’re serving up Autumn... Set your table with equal parts of delicious and delightful... set it with Skyros! #skyrosdesigns #autumntable #shoplocal
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