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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In the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, a motivational speaker played by Alec Baldwin addresses a group of salesmen. He writes three letters vertically on the chalkboard, “A B C.” He explains that the acronym means "Always Be Closing."
The way that Baldwin's character thinks about sales, I may think about reading. I think of: "ABR,” Always Be Reading. Whether it's breakfast, lunch, or dinner, I try to get in a page or two of the Times, Wall St. ...
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The weather is finally warming up so let's think outdoors entertaining and brighten your table with primary colors like our ALTEA yellow sunflower.
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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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Add a little extra personality to the table with artisanal influence in this woven bowl paired with glass insert. Handcrafted from sustainably sourced natural vines, its beautiful handmade quality is prized for its durability exhibiting warm rustic earth tones. They`re one of the most useful kitchen accessories you can give as a gift. Includes 2QT bowl. Also available in 4QT.
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Today’s Wall St. Journal reports on the need by retailers to quickly update prices due to inflationary pressures. We agree: Bridge has been offering an instant price update service to retailers for their websites for 14 years. On a daily basis, our Product Syncing service helps Kate Spade, Baccarat, Le Creuset, and 100 premium brands update prices for 60,000 products on 930 stores’ websites.
Scott Galloway, a business leader and NYU professor, shares that we're now spending over 4 hours a day on our mobile phones--up from just 20 minutes in 2010. (…I wrote part of this post on my iPhone.) What does this mean? Lots of opportunities for Amazon--as well as Facebook, Instagram, and other tech titans--to sell to us. Our cell phones are, in essence, 1,000 'buy buttons' in our pockets (or on our nightstands) that encourage us to buy stuff online, any time of the day.
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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The WSJ shares that Fiesta tableware has seen overwhelming demand during the pandemic. Growth is fueled by its U.S.-based production and families’ return to at-home dining.
Are you sipping whiskey this holiday season? If so, you may be paying more. It used to cost $.22 to ship a bottle of whiskey by sea. Now, distilleries are resorting to shipping it by air to get it to you in time for your Christmas party. Instead of $.22, airfreight is $4 per bottle. That may be cause for another sip.
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Announcing an evening soiree to launch our new Wedding & Gift Registry - Wednesday October 27th 4-6pm. We are inviting all those involved in the wedding industry - event planners, florists, caterers, and other industry influencers - to join us in our showroom to learn more about our exclusive access to the finest brands in entertaining and home decor. While enjoying champagne and light hors d'oeuvres, our guests will have the opportunity to chat with our interior design team and learn about ...
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We work tirelessly to help our customers. A good spot to see this is on our sale site’s pricing page, which lists 60+ features that clients receive—often for free. (Sometimes I think that we’re philanthropists. Twenty-five percent of retail clients pay nothing each month.) Each feature is one that we’ve labored over.
But, ironically, our hard work may get overlooked and under-appreciated if key psychological insights are overlooked by me. In his book ...
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In the news each day, there are reports of price increases (inflation) that average 4%. When a product's price increases 4% or 45%, this often hurts a retailer. Reason: the retailer may not know about this price change till after it has sold the item. Therefore, the retailer sold the item at 45% less than what it should have. If the item is a special order and the retailer does not have it in stock, it may barley make a profit on the order.
Bridge's product sharing service helps ...
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The Wall St. Journal shares that prices are rising on many products and retailers are turning to software to help them cope.
Bridge helps more than 800 stores fight the downsides of inflation. Our Smart Products service allows brands to instantly raise prices for their products on a retailers' Bridge Store--thereby helping the retailer limit loses. In contrast, stores that do not use Bridge are much less likely to raise prices on time and therefore more likely to lose money on an order....
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In a world with so many options, how do we as consumers make intelligent choices? We are overstimulated with resources daily, and sometimes this can be overwhelming. Common sense seems to be the driving factor when assessing the alternatives before us, as may be the process of elimination when there is too much to consider. But what is the most influential deciding factor we face? It could be facts that serve as the strongest fuel to drive us to make an informed decision.