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June 14, 2023 New Feature: Easily Identify Synced Products 🔄
How to view products being Synced with your store.
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New Feature: Easily Identify Synced Products 🔄
How to view products being Synced with your store.
June 14, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: we've made it easier to quickly identify Synced products.

A new green Syncing icon indicates which products are being synced with your store:  

In the example shown, we see the Results page for The Ivy House's products in the Bar & Drinking Glasses department with the following:
  • On the image thumbnails, we can see the green Syncing icon on Bottega Del Vino Crystal products.
  • The icon appears on these products because
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June 8, 2023 Give Me a Goodbye Kiss 💋
How businesses keep customers coming back after they make a purchase.
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Give Me a Goodbye Kiss 💋
How businesses keep customers coming back after they make a purchase.
June 8, 2023
Six Flags is updating its theme parks to encourage families to spend more time there and visit more often, according to this past weekend’s The Wall St. Journal. The theme park's president, Jeffrey Siebert, says that the nightly fireworks show is what the industry calls a “kiss good night.” After park-goers have spent the day spending, they perceive the show as a free, post-purchase gift with no strings attached.  The fireworks thereby help the customer leave fulfilled and...
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June 7, 2023 A True Show Stopper
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A True Show Stopper
June 7, 2023
Palms up or Palms down? Either way, these sculptural candleholders are powerful and calming. When used in multiples down a table these are show stoppers! View Post
June 6, 2023 JK Adams Joins the Brand Syncing Service 🥳
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JK Adams Joins the Brand Syncing Service 🥳
June 6, 2023
We are pleased to announce that JK Adams is joining the Brand Syncing Service. 

JK Adams is known for their beautiful handcrafted wooden items that make baking, food preparation, and presentation effortless.  The assortment includes unique products that range from cutting boards, rolling pins, coasters, and charcuterie boards to pot racks.

JK Adams products will be ready for syncing by July 3rd.

Stores that are already Shop Local members will be alerted when JK Adam's data is ...
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June 5, 2023 New Feature: A Customer's Review Can Now Include a Private Message
How to view private messages left by your customers.
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New Feature: A Customer's Review Can Now Include a Private Message
How to view private messages left by your customers.
June 5, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: a customer can share a private message with your business when leaving a review on your Shop Local Store.

Previously, a customer could not share a private message when leaving a public review. The private message is only visible to your business. 

In the example shown, we see a review notification email sent to a retailer. In the email, the store can see the customer's public review and private message. On the store's Reviews page, only the ...
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June 2, 2023 Acquisition
How we can acquire new prospects by leveraging our existing network of customers.
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Acquisition
How we can acquire new prospects by leveraging our existing network of customers.
June 2, 2023
In Andrew Chen’s book The Cold Start Problem, he breaks the network effect into three parts: engagement, acquisition, and economize. At Shop Local, we rely on the network effect and its three parts. I feel that we’re succeeding in terms of engagement but need improvement in acquisition. 

Engagement
We use the 64,000 products in our Syncing service to engage 1,200 our retail clients. We email them new intros, price updates, archived items for these synced products. Once they ...
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June 2, 2023 Placemats For Every Style
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Placemats For Every Style
June 2, 2023
The perfect subtle backdrop for your favorite serveware and tabletop accents is provided by this placemat. This beaded woven placemat, which is authentically made from natural exotic vines, would be ideal with culinary treats.  Whatever the occasion, this organic decorative piece will add a chic, rustic touch to your table arrangement. Sold in sets of four and in a variety of colors.


CALAISIO
natural elegance, extraordinary durability




 
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May 31, 2023 Mention Shop Local in Your Price List or Catalog - Receive $250.00
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Mention Shop Local in Your Price List or Catalog - Receive $250.00
May 31, 2023
FOR BRANDS

Shop Local will give you $250.00 when you mention your Shop Local service in your price list or catalog or on your business card.


Why use this promotion?
  • Retailers will be buying your products at the summer shows. You can make it pain-free for them to get your product online in seconds using your Syncing service. 
  • FACT: Syncing is the fastest and easiest way to get your products on your stores' websites. 
  • Sell 18% more. Retailers report selling up to 18% more
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May 30, 2023 Training Video: For Retailers ~ Beginner Training
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Training Video: For Retailers ~ Beginner Training
May 30, 2023
In this new webinar, I show you how to setup your Shop Local Online Store. 

Watch:
https://vimeo.com/831046253/663b67a03d

View a PDF of the slides: 
https://bridge.myshoplocal.com/docs/BRC/Shop-Local-for-Retailers---Beginner---May-2023.pdf

Webinar includes:
  • What is Shop Local.
  • Why 1,200 stores use Shop Local.
  • Who is building Shop Local.
  • Logging in to your account.
  • I'll walk you through your Success Checklist steps 1 - 4:
    • Bookmarking your account.
    • Adding
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May 29, 2023 STAY ON TREND by JULIE SMITH VINCENTI
STAY ON TREND by JULIE SMITH VINCENTI
May 29, 2023
It was October 2021, and I had just finished my first in-person trends seminar since the pandemic impacted all industry shows. At the end of the image-packed program, an audience member raised her hand and challenged, “Do trends even matter anymore?”

It was a valid question. The pandemic had disrupted business, upended supply chains, transformed education, revealed vulnerabilities, altered priorities, and unexpectedly claimed many lives. The question was tinged with cynicism. Pent...
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May 29, 2023 Tableware Today Interview – Susan Gravely
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Tableware Today Interview – Susan Gravely
May 29, 2023
Susan Gravely – alongside her sister, Frances, and mother, Lee – founded VIETRI 40 years ago after a serendipitous vacation where they discovered the charms of Italian ceramics. Gravely’s new book, Italy on a Plate, equal parts travelogue/cookbook/memoir, is a culinary delight celebrating four decades of bringing the best of Italy’s tableware to an adoring fan base.
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You and I go back almost to the start of VIETRI in 1983. [Editor&rsquo...
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May 29, 2023 Memorial Day Entertaining
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Memorial Day Entertaining
May 29, 2023
Together, let's celebrate America today in memory of and gratitude for all the brave patriots who served. Start off a contemporary patriotic theme with placemats and napkin rings from Calaisio that are influenced by nature. The organic vines and their neutral colors provide the ideal foundation for mixing and combining. Enjoy your Memorial Day!


CALAISIO
natural elegance, extraordinary durability



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May 26, 2023 Data, Filters, and Search Walk Into a Soundbar
How big data, filters, and search engines can help us create a better experience for our members.
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Data, Filters, and Search Walk Into a Soundbar
How big data, filters, and search engines can help us create a better experience for our members.
May 26, 2023
Apple announced last month that it's launching a new classical music app. What’s novel about the Apple Music Classical app is how it lets music fans more easily search thousands of variations of the same song. For example, let’s say you want to find a Johann Sebastian Bach song. Over the past 300 years, many musicians have done ‘covers’ of his works, and there are variations by conductor, music, year, etc., thereby producing thousands of variations. Existing software ...
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May 26, 2023 BOSS MAN ❌ BOSS WOMAN
BOSS MAN ❌ BOSS WOMAN
May 26, 2023
Owning a business is no small feat, but in recent years, women have taken on starting their own businesses, leaving the nine-to-five to become entrepreneurs. In 2022, they were more likely to start a business than men. Last year, women-owned businesses had higher earnings growth (27% increase) than male-owned firms (22%). Still, male-owned businesses received $93,000 in funding, while women-owned businesses received $56,000. There are nearly 13 million women-owned businesses in the U.S., and the...
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May 26, 2023 Tableware Today: 4 Brands Promote Bridge's Shop Local Platform
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Tableware Today: 4 Brands Promote Bridge's Shop Local Platform
May 26, 2023
We're happy to see four brands promote Bridge's Shop Local platform in Tableware Today's June/July 2023 issue.

The brands promoting Shop Local include:
  • Bordhallo Pinheiro
  • Carmel Ceramica
  • Mary Jurek
  • Vista Alegre

In the advertisement, the brand displays our ShopLocal.org logo.  

A brand shows the logo so that retailers know they can easily sell the products shown. When a brand offers our Brand Syncing service, a retailer can instantly display the brand's entire product ...
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May 25, 2023 Wine store collapse stains retailers
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Wine store collapse stains retailers
May 25, 2023
The New York Times shares a salacious story about Sherry-Lehman, a world-famous wine shop.  The story recounts how the retailer was hit by tariffs, online competitors, and COVID shutdowns. It had borrowed excessively, which many retailers do.  At first, it reads like a Bed Bath & Beyond obituary. But then the owners veered into the criminal realm.  They sold rare wine to new customers that belonged to existing customers, in other cases didn’t deliver what was sold, and ...
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May 24, 2023 New Feature: Registrants Can Promote Your Store via Text Message 📲
How registrants can invite friends to open a registry at your store via text.
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New Feature: Registrants Can Promote Your Store via Text Message 📲
How registrants can invite friends to open a registry at your store via text.
May 24, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: Registrants can now invite friends to open a registry at your store. The new "Help a Friend" feature on registry lists allows registrants to send a text message to their friends with an invitation to open a registry.

In the example shown, we see a registry list at Luxury Gift Shop. In the "Help a Friend" box, the registrant can click the "See Details & Invite Friend" link to refer their friend to your registry service....
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May 23, 2023 A TRUE TIMELESS CLASSIC | PACIFICA
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A TRUE TIMELESS CLASSIC | PACIFICA
May 23, 2023
Detailed wooden accents appear throughout Pacifica and its clean and sleek look.

Highlight your kitchen with memorable pieces. View Post
May 23, 2023 An Enigmatic Bird
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An Enigmatic Bird
May 23, 2023
A notoriously shy bird, there is still much to learn about the fruit dove but one known fact, as their name implies, is that these avian beauties eat fruit and berries. Native to Southeast Asia and Oceania, ornithologists will no doubt be perplexed when this species starts popping up in North America; however, with vibrant colors provided by mother nature and exquisite details enhanced by the artists at Herend, interest in this enigmatic bird will certainly lure it to distant shores. View Post
May 20, 2023 Hosting A Backyard Party This Weekend?
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Hosting A Backyard Party This Weekend?
May 20, 2023
The perfect subtle backdrop for your favorite serveware and tabletop accents is provided by this placemat. This beaded woven placemat, which is authentically made from natural exotic vines, would blend nicely with culinary treats inspired by the French countryside.  Whatever the occasion, this organic table decor will add a chic, rustic touch to your table arrangement. Sold in sets of four and in a variety of colors.


CALAISIO
natural elegance, extraordinary durability



 
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