Do website service providers need a digital health label?
May 18, 2024
When you pick up a package of Oreos or yogurt at the grocery store, you can see the nutrition (or lack of it!) on the nutrition label on the back. Health advocates are encouraging the FDA to make warnings more obvious on packages—such as by placing information on the front of the package, shares The Wall St. Journal. Advocates have looked abroad for inspiration. In Mexico, you’ll find labels with a black octagon, resembling a stop sign, on the front of Doritos and Nature Valley ...
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How a checklist can be used as a valuable tool for existing clients or prospects.
December 20, 2023
This past Thanksgiving, Austin Kleon, the author of "Steal Like an Artist" and other inspirational books, shared a free gratitude journal via his weekly email newsletter. (Please view that clever, hand-drawn journal here: https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/a-gratitude-zine) A part of this journal is making a list of what one is grateful for. (He also has an ad lib for gratitude!) I can imagine him having a gratitude checklist. A checklist is a very efficient tool to deliver...
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How to view information about a registry on one page.
August 31, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've made it easier for you and your registrants to view an overview of a registry. There is now a new Registry Overview page that displays information about a registry at a glance.
Previously, you or your registrant would need to visit different registry-related pages to view many of these links. This feature reduces the number of clicks needed to access pages.
The Registry Overview page displays the following information...
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How to take a tour of important navigation features on your Shop Local site.
February 15, 2023
Your Online Store has a new feature: Using blue boxes, we have created a tour to guide you through the software's important navigation features. Taking this tour will help you save time and better utilize your software.
The tour explains these links:
Home Page
Dashboard
Activity
Your Orders
Wholesale
Your Inbox
Account Management
Syncing
Add
Display Mode
Your Profile
Please follow these steps to access the navigation tour:
How to promote post-wedding discounts to registrants to receive more orders for unpurchased items.
February 7, 2023
Your Bridge has a new feature: You can now promote post-wedding discounts on unpurchased registry items to your registrants. Your store can turn this feature on or off. This discount keeps your business competitive with major registry players (e.g. Zola may offer a 20% discount).
If you choose to offer a post-wedding discount, you can offer the following percentages off:
5%
10%
15%
20%
Once the feature is turned on for your store, the post-wedding discount is promoted to ...
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We’ve chatted about the importance of checklists. Checklists can be checklists literally as well as figuratively (i.e. software). Checklists help us order our thoughts and actions. Yet, the last step on each checklist should be: removing as many checklist steps as possible. This ironic strategy is necessary because steps inherently are friction, and friction is our enemy. We want to help our clients avoid the drag of clicks and thinking.
Bridge has added a new feature to your store's wedding registry service. We have added checklists to each registry.
These checklists will help your store:
Save time.
Sell more gifts.
Make customers happier.
Details
Bridge has given each of your wedding registries two checklists:
Your store receives an internal, private checklist for each registry. The registrant can’t access this.
The registrant receives their own checklist. You can also
In a 2007 article in The New Yorker, Atul Gawande, a surgeon and an author, advocatedthat more hospitals use checklists. He cited many medical studies showing how checklists save lives (and money). Implementing one checklist, a hospital "…prevented forty-three infections and eight deaths, and saved two million dollars in costs." The startling part: the list was only five steps long! In other words, people don’t consistently follow...
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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.
Companies that sell brands on Amazon are increasingly profiting by using a series of checklists, some with 503 steps, to ensure they maximize a brand's potential.
This article leads us to ask: if we could make a checklist with 503 to-do items, what would those be? What checklist should a retailer follow to succeed online? A brand? Bridge offers members a variety of checklists to help them succeed in including the New Member Success Checklist and the Smart Brand Boarding Checklist....
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Getting more registrants to register at your store.
Watch this training:
1. Visit your account's Success Checklist. The video is on the right-hand side.
or
2. Please contact Bridge to for the Vimeo URL.
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October 22, 2019
October 22, 2019
How can you prepare for Black Friday / Cyber Monday? Here's a checklist:
1. 'Seed the sale' by telling customers to expect deals. "Promote sales, promote sales, promote sales," said Sucharita Kodali, principal analyst of e-business and channel strategy at Forrester. "It's the number one thing that shoppers look for during the holidays." (Source: Retail Dive)
You can do this via posts on Bridge and social media.
2. Craft an irresistible offer.
3. Organize your upcoming sales / discounts. You can do ...
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February 5, 2019
February 5, 2019
For Retailers: Good news: the wedding registry season is here! Consider these facts:
1. This year 2.5 million weddings will occur in the U.S. That's 2.5 million potential gift registries for your store. :)
2. Amazon, Zola, and Crate & Barrel make millions from gift registry purchases. You will, too.
3. The average gift registry purchase is $142, and the average registry receives over $1,000 in gifts.
4. The online gift registry business is the one spot where indie stores are winning online.
Today at Beatriz Ball weβll be coaching stores on how to grow their online sales. Hereβs our cheat sheet :)
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November 8, 2017
November 8, 2017
Preparing for Thanksgiving can be a lot of work. What if someone had a suggested schedule of what to do in the hours leading up to dinner? The Times does just that with a prep schedule starting a few days before the big day.
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August 16, 2017
August 16, 2017
The checklist for our optional Bridal Registry Gift Card Program. You can get up to $100 in Gift Cards by completing the steps below ($50) and then referring another couple who completes the steps (another $50 for you and $50 for them). Via our website, we do both self-serve registries and custom registries (we coordinate the registry & add items that you pick, then maintain it).
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