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December 28, 2022 Referrals: Johnny Softwareseed 👨‍🌾 🍎
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Referrals: Johnny Softwareseed 👨‍🌾 🍎
December 28, 2022
In the book The Cold Start Problem, Andrew Chen says that the 'network effect’ is really three effects: 
  • The acquisition effect 
  • The engagement effect
  • The monetization effect 

In the beginning, a business seeking to build a network has to concentrate on acquiring users, even if they are non-paying. Companies often give away the service, especially software companies, and we can see that with Facebook, Slack, TikTok, and many others.  Bridge didn’t do ...
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December 19, 2022 New Feature: Display Existing Gift Givers to Encourage Future Gift Givers
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New Feature: Display Existing Gift Givers to Encourage Future Gift Givers
December 19, 2022
Your Bridge Store has a new feature to encourage customers to complete a registry purchase.  Your Bridge Store now displays gift givers' names on a registry's list. This strategy is designed on two principles:
  1. Consumers are more likely to make a purchase if they see that others have made a purchase.
  2. Consumers are more likely to make a purchase if they know the name of an existing gift giver.  
 
How this Feature Works:
  1. When a customer checks out with a
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October 8, 2022 Winners Quit 🚪🏆
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Winners Quit 🚪🏆
October 8, 2022
In her new book ‘Quit,' Annie Duke shares that the best poker players only play 25% of the hands they are dealt, whereas others play 50%. Ms. Duke talks with Stewart Butterfield, the founder of a few startups, most recently Slack (which is an acronym, which I didn’t know). Slack wouldn’t have been born if Mr. Butterfield didn’t drop a video game company to start Slack. Likewise for Twitter which was born out of the failed blogging company Odeo. Ms. Duke's lesson: winners ...
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August 10, 2022 We Deliver and Install
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We Deliver and Install
August 10, 2022
I don’t own a car, yet I have a strange desire to read Dan Neil's car column each weekend in The Wall St. Journal.  Why would someone who doesn’t own a car, won’t be buying one soon, and hasn’t owned one in 25 years read a car column? It's a mix of enjoying the design and technology of automobiles, wanting to know what Dwayne Johnson may be buying next, loving Dan’s witty writing style, and, confession, simply being 13-years old at heart. Cars are ...
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June 30, 2022 Showtime 🎪
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Showtime 🎪
June 30, 2022
The next book our Bridge team may read is John List’s book The Voltage Effect.  List, who is a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago, shares a variety of suggestions to grow a business. He warns us about false positives, such as what the “Just Say No” drug campaign experienced. He suggests we look for businesses with scalable ingredients. (People are not scalable, but good news for Bridge: software is!)

I'd add to List's advice this simple maxim: show ...
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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 5, 2022 New Feature: Speed Customers to Registries With QR Codes
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New Feature: Speed Customers to Registries With QR Codes
April 5, 2022
We've added a new feature to your Bridge: each of your registries now has a unique QR code. You, your registrants, and gift-givers can use these codes to quickly access registries and shop. 

In the example shown, we see a wedding registry for Melly Jones & Jason Johnson at the Luxury Gift Shop.  This registry has a unique QR code. The store can print this QR code and place it in a display in the store. When a customer (or staff member) in the store wants to access the ...
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December 18, 2021 ⚡️Magic is Often a Product of a Process 📓
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⚡️Magic is Often a Product of a Process 📓
December 18, 2021
In the book Great by Choice, Jim Collins posits that processes are key to an organization's success. As an example, he cites John Wooden, the NCAA championship-winning UCLA basketball coach, who trained athletes on processes that included everything from shooting to tying one’s shoelaces. In practicing, a player may perfect their shoelace tying and do thousands of repetitive free-throw shots. When we watch a game from the nosebleed seats like me (...what can I say, I’m ...
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November 29, 2021 Platforms 👠
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Platforms 👠
November 29, 2021
When I was 24-years old, a market research company sent me to Philadelphia to survey potential users about a new offering from General Electric Finance. Your first question may be: "Wait, Jason was once 24?" Your second may be: "GE had a consumer finance arm?" Yes, and yes. GE was once a conglomerate with its hands in many industries, from television to nuclear reactors to jet engines. GE, like Toshiba and Johnson & Johnson, has since shrunk. But the era of the ...
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September 15, 2021 Sandwich Trays are a new Invention for an old Favorite
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Sandwich Trays are a new Invention for an old Favorite
September 15, 2021
Yes, our trays are not historic, but the story of the Sandwich is.  The sandwich has come a long way from a hunk of beef and cheese between bread.
“The sandwich as we know it was popularized in England in 1762 by John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich. Legend has it, and most food historians agree, that Montagu had a substantial gambling problem that led him to spend hours on end at the card table. During a particularly long binge, he asked the house cook to bring him something he ...
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July 12, 2021 Are you heading to Atlanta?
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Are you heading to Atlanta?
July 12, 2021
You won't want to miss 100 new items!

Date: July 13-19
Location: Ivystone Showroom, Building 2, Floor 11

Email us to schedule your appointment in our showroom:
Kelly Wenzel:
Phone: 504.905.8417
Email: [email protected]

Kelli Johns:
Phone: 847.331.1137
Email: [email protected]
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June 21, 2021 We'll see you in Dallas!
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We'll see you in Dallas!
June 21, 2021
You won't want to miss our 90 new items!

Date: June 22-28
Location: Ivystone Showroom, Dallas WTC, Showroom 236

Email us to schedule your appointment in our showroom:
Kelly Wenzel:
Phone: 504.905.8417
Email: [email protected]

Kelli Johns:
Phone: 847.331.1137
Email: [email protected]

 
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January 3, 2021 NYT: Life Without Amazon (Well, Almost)
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NYT: Life Without Amazon (Well, Almost)
January 3, 2021
The Times' John Herrman covers what it takes to go without Amazon.

Amazon has appeared to upset people across the spectrum, as "anticapitalist liberal college student[s] and...uber-capitalist conservative grandparents are both boycotting Amazon.” 

Yet, Amazon is now so large that it's hard to escape its reach. Even the The New York Times' website is hosted by Amazon AWS services.

Read the full article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/style/amazon-abstainers.html
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July 12, 2020 Virtual Happy Hour Recap
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Virtual Happy Hour Recap
July 12, 2020
Thank you for joining July's Virtual Happy Hour. We had a wide variety of attendees from retailers to brands to reps. We discussed the pandemics's affect on market shows, shopping trends, and time-saving shortcuts in the software. 

John, thanks for telling us about this distillery:
http://ciscobrewers.com/distillery

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June 12, 2020 New P.J. Salvage Sunset Vibes At Cheeks, Plus Big Sale In Squirrel Hill!
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New P.J. Salvage Sunset Vibes At Cheeks, Plus Big Sale In Squirrel Hill!
June 12, 2020
The P.J. Salvage Sunset Vibes collection is great for warm Summer days or comfy lounging at home. The Elegant scallop details highlight the soft, drapey, woven rayon twill with a relaxed fit. Cheeks has the cami, short, and cropped pant in Ivory (pictured) and Charcoal. 
SALE!
Cheeks on Forbes in Squirrel Hill has all clothing 40-70% off! Featuring these designers: Joseph Ribkoff, Sympli, Elliott Lauren, Nic+Zoe, John & Jenn, Margaret O'Leary, Lilla P, and Clara Sun Woo. 
Cheeks...
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May 21, 2020 Physical Footprint
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Physical Footprint
May 21, 2020
In today’s WSJ, Walmart’s CEO John Furner praises the benefit of your physical footprint in competing with Amazon. View Post
June 17, 2019
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June 17, 2019
What grade would you give our industry for being ready in terms of online operations? After watching this video, you may have a better ability. This video by Gartner L2 market research ranks the top B2B companies and shares what is needed to prepare your business:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0KESHW2KaE&feature=youtu.be


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March 20, 2019
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March 20, 2019
Say hello to our new Parkleigh baby!!!! Congrats to our employees, Mother-Maggie, Grandma- Jeannine, and Uncle- John!!! Welcome to the family, Elliot Roy Humberstone! View Post
Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018
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Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018
John Mark Looney with Crop to Pop Popcorn will here at the store today from 11am-3pm.
Be sure to stop by to sample his delicious popcorn and get the chance to meet him!
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Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018 - Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018
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Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018 - Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018
Shulan's Fairlawn Jewelers is having a trunk show with Jewelmer. Jewelmer won the sustainability award of 2018. The show is 11/29 thru 12/1 10 am to 7 pm and Sunday 12/2 noon to 4 p,m. We will have the hope bracelet available as seen in the video which supports the Save the Palawan Seas Foundation. Beautiful jewelry, sustainable and with a great cause.
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