As you likely know, Gumpβs filed for bankruptcy. The famous San Francisco indie store's crash is having wide-ranging consequences for our industry. 41 Madison tenants likely lost more than $1,000,000 on Gump's.
Yet, the economy and stock market are doing very well. How to explain these contrarian events? Furthermore, you surely are asking: How did Gump's reach this low--and more ...
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June 6, 2018
June 6, 2018
Webinar: Your Store vs. Amazon
Want to fight back against Amazon? We'll show you 7 ways in our new webinar.
How to watch the webinar? In the comment field below this post, enter your store's name. Then we'll send you the access link to watch the webinar.
In this webinar, you'll learn:
1. How to offer greater product selection. 2. How to offer free shipping and promote easy pick ups and returns. 3. How to build trust by showing more pictures of staff and faces. 4. How to benefit from your registry ...
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May 24, 2018
May 24, 2018
Todayβs Times reminds us that in-store is where you still need to win. You use the web to drive customers in-store.
3/4 of beauty care purchases are made in store. Stores are upgrading to encourage shoppers to share pictures of the store via social media.
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May 21, 2018
May 21, 2018
Why use Bridge?
1. Easily show pictures online for all the items that you sell. Bridge has 60,000 pictures.
2. Help your brides and their families. Over 20,000 brides have used Bridge's software. It's easy to use and full of features. Since the software has 1,000s of pictures, the brides are happy family and friends can see the items they'd like.
3. Beat Amazon. Since Bridge has 60,000 items pre-loaded, your store can offer greater selection than Amazon.
4. Increase your Google ranking. Bridgeβs ...
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April 29, 2018
April 29, 2018
Did you know that you can now shop some of our Instagram pictures? Look for the ones with a shopping bag. Click on the picture and follow the link!
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Juliska Partners with Bridge Catalog
Bridge Catalog supports indie retailers
March 26, 2018, Jaclyn Turner
NEW YORK— Premium tableware and home décor designer Juliska will partner with Bridge, an ecommerce platform, beginning May 1 to help authorized retailers increase their sales.
Bridge considers itself as Dropbox meeting Amazon meeting Facebook.
RETAILERS: New feature: your software now helps you move more product out the door.
Your Bridge registry software now has a redemption period feature. By default, your software sets this to 2 years. This redemption period text appears at the bottom of the registrant's registry page. The page automatically calculates and outputs the redemption period end date. For example, on the registry shown here, it says:
"Friends & family love seeing their gifts being enjoyed. We encourage you to redeem ...
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March 20, 2018
March 20, 2018
Andrew Pickard is truly part of a dynastyβgenerations of Pickards have made premium tableware. Nice to see the family pictures. (Pickard is a Smart Brand partner.)
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March 16, 2018
March 16, 2018
For Immediate Release
Juliska Partners with Bridge Catalog Leading tabletop brand to join e-commerce platform to help U.S. retailer base
Beginning May 1st, 2018, the New York-based company will use Bridge, an e-commerce platform, to display more of its products via its retailersβ websites and gift registries.
We've had requests for more pictures of "WHAT'S UPSTAIRS?". We add new items all the time, & further mark down older ones. Just added HUGE selection spring paper goods. Absolutely worth your time to come downtown Vidalia. Check out our many other "WHAT'S UPSTAIRS?" pictures on our FB page.
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March 5, 2018
March 5, 2018
Oh Kay's is one of Texas' best indie gift shops. Want proof? Check out Oh Kay's reviews page :)
Did you know that Facebook has recently changed its algorithm to show more news from friends and family and less news from your business? Due to this change, most of your customers don't see the news that you post on Facebook.
What can you do about this? Bridge has a solution: You can have your Facebook posts copied to your Bridge. Your news will be seen by 1,000s more customers.
What retailers currently use our Facebook copying service? Our Facebook duplication clients include:
So excited to be sent these pictures from the Paris Gift Show featuring the New Gien line.
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February 18, 2018
February 18, 2018
NEW SERVICE FOR BRANDS
Did you know that Facebook has recently changed its formula to show more news from friends and family and less news from your business?
Due to this change, most of your retailers don't see the news that you post on Facebook.
What can you do about this? Bridge has a free solution: You can have your Facebooks posts copied to your Bridge's news page. This news will be seen by your Bridge retailers and reps. This news may also appear alongside your product on their Bridge sites. ...
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February 11, 2018
February 11, 2018
A game-changing service often wins in two out of three areas: - Price - Quality - Time
Historically, when you adjust one of these variables, you negatively affect one of the others. For example, if you want a project to be done faster, you either reduce the quality or increase the price. When you want something cheaper, you often get it slower or reduce the quality.
A revolutionary service will change two or more of these factors with no noticeable impact on the other factors. For example, Uber ...
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February 9, 2018
February 9, 2018
Keeping up with the Joneses
Dear Retailer,
Amazon does it. Zola does it. Even Crate & Barrel does it in one form or another. Weβre talking about: the registry sign-up bonus.
And now your Bridge website does it, too. When a bride opens a new registry, she will automatically be offered a $10 in-store gift card for registering at your store. This is another way Bridge are helping you remain competitive in the registry world.
Hereβs how it works:
On your Bridge site, there is a now a banner appearing ...
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February 1, 2018
February 1, 2018
The Copper Lamp, a gift store in Dallas, used Bridge to instantly add 20,000 products to its online operations within 2 hours.
It would've taken a person 2 months to add all those items and pictures. Bridge completed this for the store in 120 minutes.
In the screen shot attached, we show Copper Lamp's administration page which gives the store a readout on how many items it's offering customers.
Copper Lamp now offers: 4,000 Herend products 800 Julia Knight products 2,600 Raynaud products 1,000 ...
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