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Friday, July 12, 2019
Friday, July 12, 2019
Event Date: Friday, July 12, 5:00pmLocation: Skyros Designs Showroom / AmericasMart
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Wish to grow your online gift registry business?
Join Skyros Designs and Jason Solarek for drinks and 7 steps to build your online registry business. Jason will show you 7 free techniques to grow your online gift registry business.
Why attend?
+ Bridge retailers sell 13% more than those that don't use Bridge.
+ The average gift registry is worth more than $1,000 in sales. The average gift purchase is ...
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June 26, 2019
June 26, 2019
In general, I’m seeing that more market buildings are finally taking digital seriously. Why are they finally doing so? Because Amazon is nipping at their retailers heels? Because Zola is stealing the indie store’s registry business? No. Sadly, the main thing that brought the markets up to speed on the weather outside is: their own livelihood. Faire, a startup tech company ...
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June 24, 2019
June 24, 2019
June 24, 2019
June 24, 2019
I recently visited a Footlocker and noticed they had moved the Nike shoes to the back of the store. Why? Nike, with all of its stores and direct to consumer website promotion, is now a competitor and Footlocker is trying to reduce its reliance on Nike. To that affect, I went to the Nike ...
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June 17, 2019
June 17, 2019
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June 16, 2019
June 16, 2019
Old retail is 80% analog. This consists of: the physical store, staff, customer service training, etc. What you’d expect walking into a Saks or Macy's. And it's about 20% tech: computers, cash registers (POS systems), mobile shopping, Google ranking, apps, hiring social influencers, Instagram, etc.
Today, the retailers that are well positioned, growing, and 'hot' carry the opposite equation: they're 20% analog and 80% tech.
The retail equation flipped ...
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June 10, 2019
June 10, 2019
Sunday, June 9, 2019
Sunday, June 9, 2019
Event Date: Friday, July 12 Location: Skyros Designs Showroom / AmericasMart
Save the Date...
Wish to grow your online gift registry business?
Join Skyros Designs and Jason Solarek for drinks and 7 steps to build your online registry business. Jason will show you 7 free techniques to grow your online gift registry business.
Why attend?
+ Bridge retailers sell 13% more than those that don't use Bridge.
+ The average gift registry is worth more than $1,000 in sales. The average gift purchase is $142.
+...
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June 8, 2019
June 8, 2019
E-commerce is going to double in the next seven years, predicts FedEx. When that happens, how prepared will your business be? How will you prepare your website, your staff, your shipping procedures, your pricing, and your sales expectations?
When e-commerce grows that much, who will control the market? How will customers shop? Via their mobile? Via Alexa? If e-commerce is the dominant form of shipping, how will your online product selection and prices be kept up to date online? If online ...
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June 7, 2019
June 7, 2019
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May 31, 2019
May 31, 2019
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Fifty-four percent of people looking for a product go directly to Amazon.com, shared a front page story in this week’s Wall St. Journal. This 54 percent is not good for nearly anyone in our ...
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May 30, 2019
May 1, 2019
May 1, 2019
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April 28, 2019
April 28, 2019
April 15, 2019
April 15, 2019
There are millions of indie stores in the world who don’t get to succeed online. They get ripped off by web designers and coders, have to pay local taxes unlike many Amazon sellers, don’t have access to cheap money from Wall St. like Amazon.com, and get attacked by hackers looking to steal credit cards, all factors which prevent them from running their business, helping their customers, and servicing their communities. Because of these expenses and obstacles, ...
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April 10, 2019
April 10, 2019
Does your brand have a high 'digital IQ'? Gartner shares that 62% of brands that deal with B2B have a low digital IQ.
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"B2B companies have historically relied on manual and in-person methods to market and sell their products. Those include connections made at trade shows, tried-and-true sales team relationships, and channel partner agreements that have been in place for eons...[sic] Manufacturing brands must dramatically advance their digital competencies to keep up with massive shifts in ...
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April 5, 2019
April 5, 2019
If you’re a brand, over the last few year you were probably relishing in selling direct, cutting out the rep commission, and getting 100% of the sale. Well now Amazon is your new ...
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March 24, 2019
March 24, 2019
Happy to see Diane Seidle’s lastest strategy article in Tableware Today below. Speaking of hashtags, Bridge created its own ‘$tag’ to similarly offer quick access to product info. Type a dollar symbol “$” before a SKU and the specific item will magically appear below your Chalk.
Tableware Today:
WHAT'S YOUR HASHTAG STRATEGY?
Just in case you’ve been living off the grid for a year or more, a hashtag is simply a word or phrase behind a pound sign. When you use a hashtag that word or phrase becomes ...
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March 21, 2019
March 21, 2019
Happy to see Diane Seidle’s lastest strategy article in Tableware Today below. Speaking of hashtags, Bridge created its own ‘$tag’ to similarly offer quick access to product info. Type a dollar symbol “$” before a SKU and the specific item will magically appear below your Chalk.
Tableware Today:
WHAT'S YOUR HASHTAG STRATEGY?
Just in case you’ve been living off the grid for a year or more, a hashtag is simply a word or phrase behind a pound sign. When you use a hashtag that word or phrase becomes ...
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March 12, 2019
March 12, 2019
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