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June 2, 2022 Hello June! Good Morning Friends!
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Hello June! Good Morning Friends!
June 2, 2022
Coffee is my must-have accessory. Adding this sultry, dense rustic woven placemat handcrafted entirely of natural vines with golden-yellow and brown hues makes coffee taste better. Enjoy your family, your friends and your coffee!


CALAISIO
natural elegance, extraordinary durability
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May 27, 2022 Good Morning Friends and Family!
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Good Morning Friends and Family!
May 27, 2022
Honoring and remembering all who served, and thankful for the freedom we enjoy. Have a great Memorial Day weekend!


CALAISIO
natural elegance, extraordinary durability
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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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May 8, 2022 Happy Mother’s Day 🥂
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Happy Mother’s Day 🥂
May 8, 2022
Cheers to the weekend… we raise our glass to celebrate mothers, daughters, sisters and friends… all the strong, fabulous, inspiring women in our lives... Cheers and Happy Mother’s Day to all the women we L❤️VE! 🥂#happymothersday #celebrate #sheknowsbest #skyrosdesigns
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May 1, 2022 New Feature: Share a Product via Messaging
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New Feature: Share a Product via Messaging
May 1, 2022
Your Bridge has a new feature: you can more easily message friends about products. On each item's page, there is now a "Message via Bridge" link. When you click this link, a modal will appear, letting you select your friend and share the item. If you wish, you can include a customized message.  When you share the message, a message alert will appear when the member views their Bridge account. They will also receive an email alert that you sent them a message. 

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April 21, 2022 Join Us On Bridge / Get $200
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Join Us On Bridge / Get $200
April 21, 2022
Dear Friends and Family of Skyros Designs, 
 
142 of our retailers are using a sales program called Bridge. A store uses Bridge to more easily sell our products. I think Bridge would be a good fit for your business, too. I’m writing to invite you to join us on Bridge. 

Bonus: Join us on Bridge by next Friday, May 6th, and Skyros Designs will give you a $200 shopping credit with us. 

Retailers that use Bridge report selling 18% more. In fact, our best ...
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April 20, 2022 Join Casafina Living On Bridge / Get $200
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Join Casafina Living On Bridge / Get $200
April 20, 2022
We are pleased to participate in a promotion with Casafina Living. Please find the letter that Matt Hullfish, National Sales Director, shared with his retailers below.

Thank you,

Jason

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Dear Friends and Family of Casafina, 
 
272 of our retailers are using a sales program called Bridge. A store uses Bridge to more easily sell our products. I think Bridge would be a good fit for your business, too. I’m writing to invite you to join us on Bridge. 
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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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April 15, 2022 Happy Easter!
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Happy Easter!
April 15, 2022
It's Easter weekend and you know what that means, spending time with family and friends having brunch, painting eggs, egg hunting, or just relaxing because it's a Sunday. Whatever it may be, we hope you seize the day! View Post
April 6, 2022 Jars Event at Eleven Madison Park
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Jars Event at Eleven Madison Park
April 6, 2022
A special thank you to Jars for showcasing its new products last night at Eleven Madison Park. Jars, a French company founded in 1857, invited interior designers and hospitality leaders to experience its new lines. Eleven Madison Park, one of New York’s premier restaurants and led by Chef Daniel Humm, uses Jars.  

Visit our friends at Jars: 
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March 23, 2022 Customer Acquisition Costs & Online Strategies
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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 ...
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March 22, 2022 Azores Greige Shimmer… Spring is Here 🌼
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Azores Greige Shimmer… Spring is Here 🌼
March 22, 2022
Spring is all about getting a fresh start. Wishing you a bright, warm, and beautiful season filled with lots of sunshine, friends and family gathered round a softly layered spring table. Happy Spring! 🌼 #skyrosdesigns View Post
March 22, 2022 Hospitality 🍽
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Hospitality 🍽
March 22, 2022
Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio, a software company valued at $28 billion, was recently interviewed in the Wall St. Journal. When he shared who his advisors are, I was surprised to see Danny Meyer, the restaurant kingpin who owns Shake Shack (another publicly-traded company).  Mr. Lawson read Mr. Meyer’s book “Setting the Table” and was impressed to learn about the difference between service and hospitality. Service is the delivery of the technical aspects of ...
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March 16, 2022 New Feature: Share the Date You Started Your Business
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New Feature: Share the Date You Started Your Business
March 16, 2022
Your Bridge has a new feature: you can now easily output the date your business was founded. This date will appear on your home page in the Contact Card. 

In the example, we can see that the Bridge client, Shulan's, was founded in 1921. Great job, Shulan's!

How to add your date founded:
  1. Please visit your Bridge account.
  2. Please log in.
  3. Please click on "Management" at the top of your account.
  4. On the Management page, under "My Business Profile," please click
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March 8, 2022 Brands Helping Their Stores and Themselves
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Brands Helping Their Stores and Themselves
March 8, 2022
How are brands helping their stores--and themselves? They are telling retailers that Bridge is a sales solution for them. For example, Pampa Bay doubled its sales vs. last year on the Bridge platform. One way Pampa Bay increased its sales is by consistently promoting its Bridge service across various mediums. When one visits the Pampa Bay site, one can see the platforms the brand uses in the upper right-hand corner. We can see the brand uses Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Bridge. Pampa...
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March 6, 2022 Our Digital Gym 🏋️‍♀️
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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...
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February 28, 2022 Is Zola a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?
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Is Zola a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?
February 28, 2022
I think that Zola, an online provider of gift registries, may be harming local stores. Zola allows brides to pick things from any site, such as an indie store’s gift registry. Zola may then encourage the registrant to bypass that local store and use those gift funds with Zola. This is an issue because Zola has handled more than 650,000 registries, and its revenue is estimated to be $130m. Millions of dollars may have been diverted away from indie, brick-and-mortar stores to Zola&rsquo...
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February 17, 2022 Who's ready for spring? 🌸
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Who's ready for spring? 🌸
February 17, 2022
As Winter’s chill overstays its welcome, we all look forward to Spring’s warmer days, and to dining with friends.

Our generously proportioned Beatriz Ball ORGANIC PEARL metal ice bucket allows you to serve icy-cold bottles of wine, beer, or soda that your guests will enjoy from a serving piece they will love! It can be given as a unique gift that is sure to impress. View Post
February 8, 2022 Let's Make E-Commerce Fun
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Let's Make E-Commerce Fun
February 8, 2022
Most e-commerce platforms isolate you and leave you adrift. Bridge connects you with your business friends.

Bridge's unique features:
  • Built-in Social Network: Friend your business friends on Bridge. This allows you to share news and files, message each other, support accomplishments with one another, and share your passions. 
  • Product Syncing Between Retailers and Brands:  Save $1,000 and 50 hours on every 1,000 products you add to your store by using Bridge's
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January 28, 2022 Success Story: The Menagerie in Texas Is Showing 24K Products Online
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Success Story: The Menagerie in Texas Is Showing 24K Products Online
January 28, 2022
The Menagerie, a fine jewelry & gift store in Texas, recently reached out to Bridge to find a gift registry solution for their business. Within minutes, the store had over 24,000+ items available online using our Product Syncing service. Customers and registrants can shop for these products. Additionally, Google will rank the store higher. The store saved months of web development time and thousands of dollars in labor.

The store is currently syncing products with 27 Product ...
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Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants Get Sales Leads in Mississippi
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Shop Local Merchants Are 60% of Google Page 1 Results in South Carolina
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Shop Local Merchants Are 50% of Google Page 1 Results in Georgia
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Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants Get More Sales Leads than Big-Box Stores Using Google
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