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July 26, 2022 Helping Stores Work More Efficiently
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Helping Stores Work More Efficiently
July 26, 2022
This graphic shows the situation in which many retailers find themselves. Many retailers are stuck trying to connect their digital wholesale buying and their stores’ websites.
  • On the left, we see wholesale software operators, including MarketTime, Juniper, Faire, Bridge, etc.
  • In the middle is the retailer.
  • On the right we see retail (D2C) software providers, including Bridge, Shopify, Big Commerce, etc. 
The software entities on the left should connect ...
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July 12, 2022 Super Subscriptions 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦹🏽‍♂️
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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...
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May 22, 2022 Businesses Should Want a Membership—Not a Subscription. Why?
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Businesses Should Want a Membership—Not a Subscription. Why?
May 22, 2022
When talking about memberships and subscriptions, these two business models are sometimes interchanged but actually are different. They often differ in their pricing, customers, and offerings.  A subscription is often not a membership, but a membership often encompasses a subscription.  A membership is often an elevated and more powerful subscription that collectivizes and leverages the subscribers.

What They Have In Common
With both models, you often pay a fee and receive a ...
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April 19, 2022 Competing With Ourselves🪞
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Competing With Ourselves🪞
April 19, 2022
About two weeks ago in Charleston, SC, in spin class where I sounded like I was getting a hair transplant, I enjoyed being at once together with my friends in the class and yet competing with them.  When they peddled harder and stood up, I wanted to also.  Our competing didn't mean that there was one winner and everyone else lost. It wasn’t a zero-sum game.  In that spin class, we all won.  After that class, we all felt great.  Competition is an ...
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March 28, 2022 Gifts of Faith from Beatriz Ball
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Gifts of Faith from Beatriz Ball
March 28, 2022
Six of the many unique religious gift ideas from Beatriz Ball. Make great heirloom presents for baby showers, baptisms, first communion, confirmation, graduation, birthdays, and holidays.All boxed for effortless gifting!

•Save precious mementos of your little one's first years in the exquisite BABY Peek-A-Boo Cross Oval Keepsake Box shown above. The lidded metal box features an embossed cross on the top and contains a "peek-a-boo" surprise--another cross--sculpted on the base ...
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March 18, 2022 Brands: Get $500 for Helping Your Stores
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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....
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February 21, 2022 Monday Blues 💙
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Monday Blues 💙
February 21, 2022
Monday Morning Mood… We’ve got a case of the Monday blues... Cantaria Morning Sky #blues!! 💙🤍💙 Wishing you an amaaaaazing week!! #skyrosdesigns #mondaymood View Post
November 24, 2021 Black Friday & Small Business Saturday At Glassworks And Cheeks!
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Black Friday & Small Business Saturday At Glassworks And Cheeks!
November 24, 2021
Glassworks and Cheeks will offer 10% off everything, plus in store specials all weekend for Black Friday and Small Business Saturday!
Pictured: Glassworks offers the MOOD Silverware set by Christofle, a contemporary, refined and universal silver-plated flatware that comes with the mirror-polished "egg shaped" steel case. We have a broad selection of gifts and holiday decorations in stock! Cheeks offers P.J. Salvage Happy Howlidays Pajamas and many other gifts for ...
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November 24, 2021 Happy Thanksgiving!
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Happy Thanksgiving!
November 24, 2021
Happy Thanksgiving from Beatriz Ball. Enjoy this day of family, friends, gatherings and gratitude with those you love. Showcase your holiday favorites on our VENTO Rectangular Long Tray. Ideal for presenting sliced pork tenderloin, canapes, or baked goods. View Post
August 5, 2021 Tableware Today: Our brand partners promote Bridge
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Tableware Today: Our brand partners promote Bridge
August 5, 2021
Happy to see our brand partners promoting Bridge in this month’s issue of Tableware Today. 

In each advertisement, the brand showcases Bridge’s ‘B’ logo. 

The brands show the logo so that retailers reading the publication will know that they can easily sell online the products shown in the advertisement. Since e-commerce makes up 40% of sales, retailers increasingly want to sell in their stores ‘digital friendly’ brands like our Smart Brand ...
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July 6, 2021 Arte Italica and Crown Linen Designs, New Catalog for Fall
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Arte Italica and Crown Linen Designs, New Catalog for Fall
July 6, 2021
Check out our new catalog for Fall/Holiday 2021! This catalog combines our 2 brands and showcases our holiday favorites.  From Thanksgiving to New Years there is a table set to inspire! View Post
June 12, 2021 What is Laura Saying About Bridge Wholesale?
What is Laura Saying About Bridge Wholesale?
June 12, 2021
Brands and retailers have been using the new Bridge Wholesale service for six months. The service helps businesses reduce errors and save time. Retailers shared these comments below about the service:
 
Martin Garding (owner of Lawren's in Huntsville):
 
Bridge Wholesale is by far the easiest way to order. It cuts down on mistakes. Time is money. Bridge Wholesale saves you time.
 
 
Laura May (owner of The Ivy House in Dallas):
 
I absolutely love ...
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March 25, 2021 Gifts of Faith from Beatriz Ball
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Gifts of Faith from Beatriz Ball
March 25, 2021
Six of the many unique religious gift ideas from Beatriz Ball. Make great heirloom presents for baby showers, baptisms, first communion, confirmation, graduation, birthdays, and holidays. All boxed for effortless gifting!
  • Save precious mementos of your little one's first years in the exquisite BABY Peek-A-Boo Cross Oval Keepsake Box shown above. The lidded metal box features an embossed cross on the top and contains a "peek-a-boo" surprise--another cross--sculpted on the base
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March 16, 2021 Under Stairs Storage
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Under Stairs Storage
March 16, 2021
Collect it neatly in this naturally beautiful storage basket with lid.

CALAISIO
natural elegance, extraordinary durability

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March 1, 2021 New Feature: Control Backorders and Sharing Stock
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New Feature: Control Backorders and Sharing Stock
March 1, 2021
FOR RETAILERS

Your Bridge has a new feature: you can choose if you wish to allow customers to order products that are out of stock. In the past, if the item was on your Bridge Store, it was assumed that the item was in stock. This made managing stock simple. On site: in stock. Not on site: out of stock. 

This updated stock sharing system is helpful for brands and indie stores because it allows them show and control behavior based upon real-time stock information--a feature that with ...
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February 5, 2021 Is Zola becoming a 'Wayfair'?
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Is Zola becoming a 'Wayfair'?
February 5, 2021
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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January 25, 2021 Introducing our lovely Christopher and Harlow Frames
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Introducing our lovely Christopher and Harlow Frames
January 25, 2021
We're excited to introduce you to some new faves:  

Christopher
Whimsical meets glamorous in the textured, silver finished Christopher 5" x 7" Frame.  It's embellished with hand-set multi-colored iridescent glass beads and European crystals (Also available in gold).

Harlow
Harlow showcases our artisans' attention to detail through its hand-enameling and swirled hand-set clear European crystals, in silver finished pewter.  Both the pink and blue hues are...
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January 11, 2021 Authorize.net Uses Singapore-based Server Causing Outage
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Authorize.net Uses Singapore-based Server Causing Outage
January 11, 2021
Bridge's ability to process retail purchases using credit cards on Authorize.net was suspended today through approximately 4 pm EST. The issue is fixed now.

The reason for this is early this AM Authorize.net changed its processing location to Singapore and did not alert us.  They updated their API domain to a Singapore-based IP.  Since that city state is a hotbed for hacker activity, Bridge historically has blocked all traffic all incoming (and outgoing) traffic to Singapore as a ...
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December 6, 2020 NYT: Shopify vs Amazon
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NYT: Shopify vs Amazon
December 6, 2020
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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November 28, 2020 New Yorker Magazine: How Venture Capitalists May Be Deforming Our Industry
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New Yorker Magazine: How Venture Capitalists May Be Deforming Our Industry
November 28, 2020
In this week's New Yorker magazine, Charles Duhigg explores how venture capitalists may be harming our businesses. The article shares that instead of the best company winning, the charismatic charlatan with the most venture capital backing may be winning. In WeWork's case, the company almost won by reaching its IPO. Yet, even bottomless buckets of money couldn't save the company from the economics of office sharing--and its wildcard CEO Adam Neumann.

We have a few businesses in our retail ...
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