Your Bridge now makes it easier to speed customers to popular areas of your site. Your header now displays links to your gift card page, popular products page, and sale products page.
These three links appear if you have fewer than six custom links. If you have more than six custom header links, these default custom links will not appear. If this is the case for your store, you are welcome to add these links manually.
If your site does not have any products on ...
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You can now add more links in your header area. In the example shown, DeVine Corporation has added links to all of its brands as well links to other key pages.
You can now share wedding shower dates on registry pages. In the example, we see the shower date is May 16, 2020.
Retailers have requested this feature in order to help them manage gifts. This also helps a registrant's friends and family.
In order to add a shower date, please edit a registry. You'll see a new area "Wedding / Bridal Shower Date." The registrant can list if they are having a shower, and if so, if they wish to share this date with the public. (The shower...
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Last week, a Beatriz Ball sales rep helped Sara, the owner of The Monogram Shoppe in Indiana, succeed online. As you know, everyone is shopping online. Here is how the rep helped the store:
The sales rep provided a Bridge sign-up sheet to the store.
The store used the sheet to ask Beatriz Ball and other brands to sync products.
The store emailed Bridge this sheet.
Bridge quickly processed this sheet and emailed the store back a free Bridge account.&
New features for retailers:
1. You can now customize your horizontal navigation's font and link colors.
Previously, your horizontal navigation ("Home," "Gift Registry," "Designers," etc.) was dark gray with white links. Now, you can make it any combination you'd like. In the example shown, it's a white background with gold links.
To customize your link colors, please do this:
A. Visit your Bridge account.
B. Log in.
C. Roll over "Management" ...
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April 8, 2020
April 8, 2020
OK... you're NOT going to want to miss this!!! TOMORROW ~ Friday, April 10th, we'll be having our debut FACEBOOK LIVE from HEART'S DESIRE!!!
The presentation will be done with a MORE than 6ft distance radius and we will wipe down anything we touch because WE don’t want to get sick and don’t want our wonderful customers to either!
We want to visit a little, take a little tour of a few areas of the store and more than ANYTHING connect with all of you (and hope you&...
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April 2, 2020
April 2, 2020
How is everyone doing?!? We are doing everything we CAN to stay in touch with y'all!
Do you follow us on FACEBOOK? What about INSTAGRAM? We encourage you to click on our links and give us a follow ... we're posting images of product, decorating ideas, videos of product areas and more on a daily basis ... even if you just want to look/watch for entertainment purposes!!! (yes, we know we're not the best at video, but we're trying!!!)
You can customize your Bridge gift registry home page. Below are some tips to accomplish this. Please note: you have to be logged in to your account to customize your design and view edit features.
Add your logo. You can do this by visiting 'Your Account Profile' and clicking on the 'Design' tab.
Customize your horizontal navigation bar color and font. You can do this by visiting 'Your Account Profile' and clicking on the 'Design' tab.
When buying a gift online, customers will now be more likely to enter a gift message. Bridge added to the checkout page an image of a gift envelope and text asking "Include a Message With Your Gift?"
This gift envelope image and text will only appear if the purchase is for a gift registry purchase. If the purchase is not gift registry related, a customer can still enter a gift message.
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December 10, 2019
December 10, 2019
Indie retailers are being hunted online by Amazon, Zola, and brands using their direct to consumer sites. They are triangulating around their prey. These entries are picking off their online customers and thereby their ‘supply chains‘ that keep them afloat online. Without online sales, the indie stores are starved of the one area in which the retail industry is growing.
Amazon and brands target general public orders. Due to the lower prices, brand name, and marketing, they'll get those ...
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December 3, 2019
December 3, 2019
In just 8 years, the number of packages shipped has grown 150%. That has significant implications for small businesses, the e-commerce industry, air pollution, tree harvesting, and other areas of our lives.
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Many of us will be with our family and friends this Thursday. I'll take a moment then to give thanks to all the indie retailers that enrich our communities. I'll thank the indie designers that fill our stores and homes with beautiful products.
When I'm in my friend's kitchen, someone may say they need a new spatula from Amazon, or after dinner ask Alexa to turn on Amazon TV. When they do, I'll consider those actions in light of the holiday. I'll share why this is important to consider.
Your Bridge now helps you share files more easily. You can easily load PDFs, Excel files, price lists, and more via your Bridge Library. Your business friends will see your files on their Dashboard, as well as in their respective Library.
In the example shown, Babcock Gifts, the premier gift shop of Tennessee, can view files from Mary Jurek, DeVine Corporation, Badash, Casafina, and BIA Cordon Bleu.
When viewing a file on the Dashboard, you can like it, save it, or download it. You can ...
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October 27, 2019
October 27, 2019
Does traffic seem worse? It may be your neighbors’ 1.5 million daily packages being delivered, shares today’s Times.
My neighborhood is bombarded by trucks—and delivery people often ringing every apartment buzzer in a building to contact just one apartment.
Interesting stats from the article: + Homes now get more packages delivered than businesses. + Traffic speeds have slowed over the last decade. + 2 million square Feet of warehouse space is being built in NYC. + Carbon dioxide emissions ...
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September 17, 2019
September 17, 2019
Stack those pancakes high and top it with Kettle Ridge syrup! Why is this sweet stuff so delicious? Because it’s local and made with love! This little farm is finding ways to educate and entertain their guests to the farm and we are ALL about that. If you haven’t head of Kettle Ridge, it might be time to pull up a chair to the breakfast table for a big treat. We were curious about how the modern day farmer gets their start and what goes into creating the sweet life on a sustainable farm.
In a region known for its grapes, Susan and Brian Friguliette, bravely decided to give us beans, coffee beans that is. Their love story blossomed into living their dream and their passion for coffee. We have been selling Keuka Lake Coffee for 13 years. Over this time it’s become our top coffee brand. Customers love that they are they a local roaster but, the diverse selection of roasts and flavors has kept Keuka Lake Coffee fans coming back for refills. We asked Susan and Brian to share how ...
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August 20, 2019
August 20, 2019
Good morning☀️ Start your day off right with Tattoo coffee-to-go cups, available in four unique motifs☕️
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August 4, 2019
August 4, 2019
What happens when you make a dessert syrup with delicious locally roasted coffee and organic cane sugar? Pure two ingredient magic, that’s what!! Tina Clark’s Sweet and Cute Coffee Syrup was love at first bite for our staff and our customers. We wanted to know how this gourmet goodie came about and what other genius ideas were in Tina’s foodie future. Daniel asked her to share what’s brewing with us and got the scoop. What inspired you to get into business? I had always loved to bake and to ...
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You can now control the registry change emails that you receive.
On the Your Account page, you can turn on or off receiving emails about registry changes, additions, and deletions. For example, if you do not want to receive an email that a bride added an item to registry or changed the quantity of items desired, you can turn that email alert off.
To adjust these email alerts, please:
1. Login to your Bridge.
2. Roll over "Management" and from the drop down click on "Your ...
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