How a Drawing Helps Share the10x Improvement We Deliver to Indie Shops
July 4, 2024
At breakfast in the East Village this morning, Austin Kleon’s email image struck me. His hand-drawn summer sale sign by a pool was much more heartfelt than the text-based offer. His drawing shows how our minds may become immune to text offers but react and perk up to new and authentic imagery.
I wondered what I could draw for my business. I often communicate using text and sometimes rely on stock images. Since we help indie stores grow their registry businesses, I decided to ...
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Top-3 Retail Movers
🥇 Dalton Brody in Washington, DC / +902%
🥈 Barbara Stewart Interiors in Bowling Green, KY / +511%
🥉 The Kitchen Table in Hattiesburg, MS / +394%
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The Wall St. Journal profiles light, outdoor planters and gives a green thumbs up to a MacKenzie-Childs’ planter.
MacKenzie-Childs, a Shop Local brand partner since 2016, uses our Syncing service to display this planter and more than one thousand other products in its authorized dealers’ online stores.
I can hardly believe another holiday season is soon upon us! It is such a magical time of year. We also know that it is your busiest. With you and your customers in mind, we feel we have created gorgeous pieces to help make your store exciting, elegant and the place to go for holiday shopping!
It has been just over two years since Crown Linen and Arte Italica have combined to be one company. I want to thank you all for the love and support you have given us as we have grown into a ...
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How a store in Mississippi transformed its online presence and saved thousands effortlessly in just days with Shop Local.
June 21, 2024
We are pleased to announce that Whittington Gifts & Decor has joined Shop Local to grow its online business. Located in the heart of Starkville, MS, Whittington Gifts & Decor offers a unique and fun shopping experience with a great selection of products for bridal registries, men, babies, kids, and general gifts.
Whittington Gifts & Decor saved $9,339 and 13 weeks in labor on website product maintenance by using the Shop Local platform. Through the Syncing...
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Work With the Nation's Leading Brands and Indie Shops to Support Main Street
Shop Local is a fast-growing e-commerce and gift registry platform providing services to leading independent retailers and premium brands. Based in New York, NY, Shop Local is seeking candidates to support the existing software and build out new services that will change the retail industry.
We are a small dev team who works in a full stack fashion. There are many opportunities to sharpen your skills as well as ...
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The Dallas trade show is this week. I'll see you there ;)
Our brands do a great job with their Syncing service. They do this program to empower your indie stores.
We can help our brands and reps and their stores sell more. How? We'll help their stores more quickly sell what they buy during the show. This speeds up re-orders.
How Can We Do This? SOLUTION:
Let's get more stores Syncing with your brand. You already have the Syncing service up
Thank you to Tonya Parrish, owner of Royal Gifts and Fine China in Clinton, NC, for taking the time to share a review about her experience using our Shop Local Wholesale service. 😊
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"I have a lot of bridal registries and need to place many wholesale orders from my brands. Shop Local makes it easier and quicker for me. Other services aren’t as easy. For example, when using my sales rep’s wholesale ordering website, their service ...
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How our Syncing service helped indie stores avoid a 19% loss due to product price changes.
June 14, 2024
In May, brands raised their prices on 2,627 products, producing an average price increase of 19%. If a retailer didn’t make these changes, these price increases would cost their store 19%.
Thankfully, indie stores using Shop Local have the updated price for these 2,627 products. They don’t lose 19%. The stores receive the updated prices instantly via our Syncing service.
About the Syncing Service
Syncing is a free service for retailers that is paid for by partner brands. ...
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"Most e-commerce services promote ‘me’ commerce. They do not connect businesses with each other to leverage the power of the group. Businesses act alone and are lost in a maze of decisions. Massive amounts of time and money are wasted. This wasted time and money is slowly killing indie stores - and hurting brands."
"Shop Local promotes ‘we’ commerce. Our e-commerce platform connects 1,400 retailers with 3,000 brands. Of these brands, 110 are ...
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How a legendary indie store in Georgia was finally able to succeed online in less than a week—and didn’t lift a finger.
June 13, 2024
We are pleased to announce that The Gift Shop in Thomasville, GA, has joined Shop Local to grow its online business. The Gift Shop is a Thomasville tradition offering fine gifts, elegant home decor, and exceptional small-town, individualized service.
The Gift Shop saved $10,354 and 15 weeks in labor on website product maintenance by using the Shop Local platform. Through the Syncing service, the store will expand its online collection of fine gifts and home accessories. The Gift Shop ...
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New gift list makes it simple to see the top wedding gifts from a brand.
June 11, 2024
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: A brand can now designate up to ten products to appear on a top-10 wedding gifts list. This lists helps a registrant more easily see the best products, add more products to their registry list, and receive more gifts—which translates into more sales for the retailer and brand.
In the example shown, we see the Top-10 Wedding Gifts list for LAFCO, a luxury candle and home fragrance brand. LAFCO can review the products on the list, adjust...
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How Shop Local's software quickly added cookware and kitchen accessories to the online store for a popular Duluth kitchen store.
June 7, 2024
Shop Local welcomes Duluth Kitchen Company in Duluth, MN. Duluth Kitchen Company has joined the Shop Local software platform to grow its online business. This locally owned store offers a wide assortment of kitchen tools, gadgets, and gourmet food items.
The Duluth Kitchen Company brings specialty kitchen to Duluth. Located on the shore of Lake Superior in Northern Minnesota, Duluth is a favorite destination. Visitors come to enjoy the beautiful scenery, shop, dine, and soak in the history of...
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How to view Syncing brands' files on one central page
May 30, 2024
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've added a new Brand File Center to show brands' shared files on one page. The new Brand File Center is a central area to view Syncing brands' files, including catalogs, price lists, PDFs, and brochures. These files are grouped by file type and sorted by Syncing brand.
How Retailers Can Use This Feature
View files from Syncing brands, including catalogs, price lists, PDFs, and brochures.
Brand strategy is one of the most powerful initiatives an organization can undergo. It’s an opportunity to evolve a company’s mission and value proposition based on current and future customer needs with the result being a purpose-led, customer-centric road map to create enhanced value for customers. ANDMORE recently completed this process as we rebranded from International Market Centers (IMC) last year. ANDMORE is more than just a new name and logo, it’s a framework for how ...
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