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August 14, 2022 Congrats: 50th Anniversary for the Botanic Garden Pattern
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Congrats: 50th Anniversary for the Botanic Garden Pattern
August 14, 2022
Botanic Garden, a pattern from the brand Portmeirion, is celebrating its 50th anniversary shares Tableware Today magazine.  The pattern, which is based on an 1817 herbal book’s illustrations, was unconventional at the time because it came in unmatching sets.  Store buyers feared it wouldn’t sell.  Fifty years later, the pattern has sold more than $1b and accounts for about half of Portmeirion’s sales. The company’s daughter created the pattern after ...
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August 11, 2022 New VIETRI Gallo At Glassworks!
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New VIETRI Gallo At Glassworks!
August 11, 2022
The rooster is a symbol of prosperity and positivity in Italy, and the watercolor brushstrokes and vibrant hues of the Gallo Pattern will invite that good fortune and Italian optimism into your home. Look for Vietri's ad with Glassworks in the new House Beautiful Magazine.
After a tragic bombing in Ukraine, one of the last surviving artifacts was a ceramic rooster in the kitchen window of a home in the village of Borodyanka. Today, the rooster has become a symbol of hope worldwide. In 2022, ...
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July 6, 2022 'Dem Apps 🍎
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'Dem Apps 🍎
July 6, 2022
In the movie Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon, who plays a handsome MIT janitor moonlighting as a math savant (can one say, “Hollywood career vehicle”?), woos a young lady (played by the actress Minnie Driver) by outmaneuvering a few competing, obnoxious cads. When Damon’s character gets the girl's telephone number, he proudly shows it to the other guys and boasts, with his South Boston access, “How 'bout ‘dem apples?”  I imagine Tim Cook imitating this...
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May 31, 2022 Ambassadors πŸͺ
Ambassadors πŸͺ
May 31, 2022
I was reading enviously about college kids adopting an app called BeReal and noticed that BeReal is employing ambassadors on college campuses. I even looked up the app’s page about this ambassador program (https://bere.al/en/ambassadors). Sure enough, a week later the Times published another college app piece on Sidechat (yes, I was sadly still reading about tween apps a week later…). Again, the app is finding success via campus ambassadors.  

Thus far, ...
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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 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 28, 2022 QR code shared by a Retailer
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QR code shared by a Retailer
March 28, 2022
Goldsmith Cardel, a premium retailer in Ohio, shared with us this picture of its Bridge QR code in its window.  When a customer scans this with their mobile phone, it will take them directly to Goldsmith Cardel’s Bridge Store home page. This saves the customer many steps, including: Googling the store, sorting through the results, and selecting the right result.  

Bridges gives each retailer free QR codes for its important pages. You are invited to find these codes on your ...
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March 24, 2022 New Feature: Your Bridge Now Includes QR Codes
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New Feature: Your Bridge Now Includes QR Codes
March 24, 2022
We've added a new feature to your Bridge: customers and staff can now more quickly access your Bridge.
  • We've given you QR codes that point to your important pages.
  • Over the last two years, QR codes have grown in popularity. QR codes are a quick way to access websites--especially sub pages of a website. 
  • Without QR codes, customers and staff have to Google your website. Then, once they find it, they have to navigate to the correct page, such as the registry home page or the reviews
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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 17, 2022 Your Product Pass
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Your Product Pass
March 17, 2022
Our job at Bridge is fighting for indie stores.  A key indicator of our success is when we give your store more online orders.  An important step in giving you more orders is: giving you more products online.

Good news: you have the Product Pass. This grants your business the power to sync with unlimited Product Syncing brands for free.  This is the best way to fill your website with products.

Benefits:
  • The Pass allows you to sync with unlimited brands.
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February 15, 2022 Last Place...and Winning 🏁
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Last Place...and Winning 🏁
February 15, 2022
This past weekend on the way to Florida to visit my brothers, I read about Squarespace’s advertising history. (Read the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/13/business/how-did-squarespace-know-podcasts-would-get-this-big.html).  In 2009, Anthony Casalena, the founder of Squarespace, paid $20,000 to advertise on a tech podcast. While that was a lot for a small, young company (Casalena had started his business just six years earlier in a dorm room in 2003), Casalena said the ...
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January 10, 2022 Windows to the Soul
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Windows to the Soul
January 10, 2022
While I was down in Dallas evangelizing about Bridge, the Dallas Market Center’s software provider and sister company (called MarketTime) invited me to their offices for a meeting. The goal of the meeting was to explore teaming up to help brands and retailers speed products to market, as well as get a leg up on the competition. 

The Dallas Mart consists of two primary buildings, each with atriums and many floors each. I like the Dallas show because of the abundance of ...
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December 30, 2021 Bloomberg: Shopify vs. Amazon
Bloomberg: Shopify vs. Amazon
December 30, 2021
Last February e-commerce company Shopify Inc. replaced the “Ottawa, Canada” dateline that began its press releases and earnings reports with a strange new one: “Internet, Everywhere.” The geographical shift came at the insistence of Shopify’s founder and chief executive officer, Tobi Lütke, who tends to view such matters through the prism of cold, hard logic. In May 2020, only a few months into the pandemic, he’d made the early, seemingly rash decision to...
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November 15, 2021 Ivystone: 5 Tips to Increase Web Sales
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Ivystone: 5 Tips to Increase Web Sales
November 15, 2021
Watch this video to learn five proven steps to grow web sales. Join me and Gina Thesing from Ivystone as we pull back the curtain on industry trends and delve in to solutions indie stores are using each day.

Webinar includes:
  • Five key steps that a store must take.
  • A homework check list that you can tailor to your store.
Next steps:
1. Watch the webinar: 
https://www.ivystone.com/Blog/marketingdigitaltools-2021-5-tips-to-increase-web-sales/

Webinar time: 51 minutes

2. You...
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September 13, 2021 Beatriz Ball’s Brooklyn Trays: Design as Hip as its Name
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Beatriz Ball’s Brooklyn Trays: Design as Hip as its Name
September 13, 2021
Utterly simple design and completely gorgeous.

The Beatriz Ball SOHO Rectangular Medium Brooklyn Platter is notable for its simple rectangular shape and shimmering hand-polished surface.

Great on the table, bar or kitchen island, it absolutely invites sharing. Handmade by skilled artisans, this is a multi-purpose tray you'll appreciate as much for its supreme functionality as for its artistic originality. Several Brooklyn styles to choose from.

Makes an awesome gift! An original ...
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August 21, 2021 It's Your Business to Be Happy
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It's Your Business to Be Happy
August 21, 2021
"Are you happy?” That’s a question you may ask yourself. Your parents and friends also likely inquire (I hope!).  While it may seem flaky to say, happiness is important. This topic was the subject of Dr. Edward Diener, who passed away in April of this year. Dr. Diener, who studied happiness and earned the moniker “Dr. Happiness,” reported that happiness often correlates with social relationships, being with others, and not being alone. 

Reading his ...
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August 7, 2021 We're SaaS-y
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We're SaaS-y
August 7, 2021
Historically, a young tech company like ours would go out and get a seed investor, then build up to venture capital (VC) money, do a few rounds of that, and then go public—and then down the road, take some private equity money. In sum, at various points, we’d need to fill our tank with funds from different sources. 

That’s changing.  In today’s market, everyone wants to invest and be a part of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) revolution (our space!). Private ...
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July 30, 2021 Press Release: Bridge Membership Surges 50%
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Press Release: Bridge Membership Surges 50%
July 30, 2021
For Immediate Release

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MEMBERSHIP SURGES 50% IN E-COMMERCE COMMUNITY
Online Shopping Boom Drives Retail Industry to Team Up On Bridge

NEW YORK, NY, July 30, 2021 – Bridge, an e-commerce community, reported a record increase in membership as the pandemic continued to rattle the retail landscape. In the last 12 months, 275 retail stores joined Bridge, bringing the total membership to more than 826 stores—a 50% increase. ...
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July 20, 2021 Celebrating our 42nd Anniversary! during LA MART summer show!
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Celebrating our 42nd Anniversary! during LA MART summer show!
July 20, 2021
Celebrating our 42nd Anniversary!
You're Invited to join us in a champagne toast celebrating our 42nd Anniversary! Please join us Wednesday July 21st at 3:00 pm for Italian deserts & Italian prosecco in our LA Mart showroom 800.
We look forward to raising a glass together!
* Free parking during the show *
ο»ΏLA MART Summer Show Specials!
15% Freight Cap On Orders Over $1000!
July 19 - 23, and July 26 - 30, 2021 View Post

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