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March 8, 2022 Help Your Store and Receive $500
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Help Your Store and Receive $500
March 8, 2022
 FOR SALES REPS  & BRANDS

Details:
  • I'll send you $500 for each retailer that you sign up for Bridge Store through the end of March (March 31).
  • Stores that use Bridge sell 18% more. When you sign up a store for Bridge, you increase your sales and commissions year-round.

What the store receives:
  • An online store.
  • Award-winning, best-in-class gift registry software.
  • Product data from Product Syncing Brands. (Please note: the store must be an
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March 7, 2022 9 Ways Your Bridge Is Different Than Other Online Stores
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9 Ways Your Bridge Is Different Than Other Online Stores
March 7, 2022
There are approximately 40 online e-commerce providers. These software providers help other businesses sell online by offering them the ability to run an online store. These providers include Bridge as well as Shopify, Magento, Big Commerce, BigCartel, Square, and Weebly.  Does Bridge offer a different (better?) experience than these other platforms? We believe the answer is yes. We also think our 960 retail clients agree: 99.7% of our retailers retain our service each month.

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March 6, 2022 Our Digital Gym 🏋️‍♀️
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Our Digital Gym 🏋️‍♀️
March 6, 2022
In a recent NY Times article about working out, the author Christie Aschwanden gives readers tips on how to make working out more enjoyable. (Read the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/well/move/habits-motivation-exercise.html). In reading this, I saw many parallels between working out and helping our stores get their websites ‘in shape.’ The author encourages readers to not think of working out as exercise and instead think of it as "hanging out with friends...
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February 28, 2022 Is Zola a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?
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Is Zola a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?
February 28, 2022
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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February 25, 2022 New Feature: Assign General Orders to a Specific Registry
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New Feature: Assign General Orders to a Specific Registry
February 25, 2022
Your Bridge has a new feature: you can now easily assign an order to a registry. This update solves the issue of a customer that buys a registry gift but not from the registry list. For example, a customer may buy something the registrant didn't request, or the customer may browse off the registry list and then buy an item. With this update, you can edit the order and assign the gift to any registry list. 

In the example, we see an order that Robert Smith placed. Let's imagine that this ...
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January 28, 2022 Success Story: The Menagerie in Texas Is Showing 24K Products Online
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Success Story: The Menagerie in Texas Is Showing 24K Products Online
January 28, 2022
The Menagerie, a fine jewelry & gift store in Texas, recently reached out to Bridge to find a gift registry solution for their business. Within minutes, the store had over 24,000+ items available online using our Product Syncing service. Customers and registrants can shop for these products. Additionally, Google will rank the store higher. The store saved months of web development time and thousands of dollars in labor.

The store is currently syncing products with 27 Product ...
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January 28, 2022 New Feature: Easily See Changes that Registrants Make
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New Feature: Easily See Changes that Registrants Make
January 28, 2022
Your Bridge has a new feature: you can now quickly view changes made to a registry list. This new changes page shows you:
  • Added items
  • Removed items
  • Changed quantities
  • Comments added
  • Date registry created
The page shows you who made the change. This may be the registrant or the name of the staff member at your business.

To view this feature, please visit any registry and from the sub menu, please click on "List Changes."

Registrants can't view this page.
 
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January 26, 2022 Is Amazon's 'Viral' Growth Due to Mobile Phones?
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Is Amazon's 'Viral' Growth Due to Mobile Phones?
January 26, 2022
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. 

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January 23, 2022 Jason Gets Put Under the Microscope 🔬
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Jason Gets Put Under the Microscope 🔬
January 23, 2022
Jim Collins, in his book BE 2.0, explains how purpose and mission are important to companies. To help explain this, he uses the metaphor of crossing a mountain range and seeing a star on the horizon. Your purpose is to reach the spot on the horizon below the star. The current mission is climbing up the mountain you’re on. The next mission is climbing up the next mountain and so forth in order to get closer to the spot on the horizon. You will have many missions, and may never ...
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January 16, 2022 HFN: Amazon overtakes Bed Bath & Beyond’s lead in wedding registries
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HFN: Amazon overtakes Bed Bath & Beyond’s lead in wedding registries
January 16, 2022
HFN shares a study reporting that Amazon is now the leader in gift registry usage. The report, by investment bank Baird, states the leaders are:
  1. Amazon (45% of brides are registered at Amazon)
  2. Bed Bath & Beyond (30%)
  3. Target (26%)
  4. Crate & Barrel (15%) and Williams-Sonoma (15%)
Notably, Macy's is not even in the top-five list.

Compare the above with 2017's results:
  1. Bed Bath & Beyond (44%)
  2. Target (29%)
  3. Amazon (20%)
  4. Macy's (19%)
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January 16, 2022 A New Vow for Brides: I Swear To Love Platforms That Support Communities
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A New Vow for Brides: I Swear To Love Platforms That Support Communities
January 16, 2022
Today’s Times shares that Amazon Prime members often spend twice as much compared to those that aren’t members. This led to me ponder: What if a first step to reducing Amazon’s monopolies is just canceling a $119/year ‘membership’? Prime may be Amazon’s strength—as well as its achilles. If we can find a way to undermine it, I believe one can save money and our communities. 

A recent study shared that Amazon is now the leading provider of ...
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December 15, 2021 Do We Need to Drop Dropbox?
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Do We Need to Drop Dropbox?
December 15, 2021
Relying on file-sharing services like Dropbox to sell products often costs stores an extra $750 per brand and hurts sales

I work with 900 retailers who tell me they are drowning in a sea of Dropbox folders containing Excel files and product images. What can we do about this? First, let’s review what’s happening: When a brand wants to share products with a store, it emails the store a link from Dropbox or a similar file-sharing service. A store may receive five to ten Dropbox links...
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December 1, 2021 Help Your Store and Receive $400
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Help Your Store and Receive $400
December 1, 2021
FOR SALES REPS

What would you do with $1,200?  I ask because I recently mailed a sales rep $1,200.

What did the sales rep do?
  • She signed up three retailers for Bridge Store.
  • She helped give the retailer an online store filled with the sales rep's products.
  • She saved each store thousands of dollars and months of work.
  • She helped the stores sell more. The rep is making more in commission.
  • She helped herself--and her stores. 

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October 19, 2021 1,500 Customer Reviews
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1,500 Customer Reviews
October 19, 2021
Congratulations to The Ivy House in Dallas! The store has reached 1,500 customer reviews. 

This number of reviews, and the exceedingly positive comments, reflect what a lovely business it offers.

To Laura May, the owner, and her staff, we praise you.

How does Bridge's review software work? 
Our review software is included by default with Bridge Store for free. (Other e-commerce software often makes a store pay to add this feature.) Our software emails customers and ...
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October 18, 2021 Wedding & Gift Registry Preview Party
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Wedding & Gift Registry Preview Party
October 18, 2021
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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September 26, 2021 Bridge Beats The Knot and Walmart
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Bridge Beats The Knot and Walmart
September 26, 2021
When it comes to gift registries, Bridge helps indie stores rank higher in Google than other players in the retail industry. In the example shown, we see four retailers using Bridge to rank on page 1 of Google. Two retailers beat The Knot, and four beat Walmart.

While our indie stores are just a fraction of the size of The Knot or Walmart, they outrank them because they use Bridge's technology. Bridge's software and network of websites offers advantages that bigger entities can't overcome ...
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September 25, 2021 Our new Wedding & Gift Registry is going "live" soon! Come in to our store to see our beautiful displays taking shape just for you!
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Our new Wedding & Gift Registry is going "live" soon! Come in to our store to see our beautiful displays taking shape just for you!
September 25, 2021
Create a gift registry for any occasion here at deGuise Interiors.  With personal guidance and service from our Registry Specialist, Michele, you will enjoy access to the finest brands in entertaining and home decor. We offer beautiful gifts for any occasion or milestone from well-loved brands including Juliska, Lenox, Annieglass, Beatriz ball, Anna Weatherley, Badash, Mottahedeh, Reed & Barton, Salisbury, Kate Spade, Casa Fina, Skyros Designs and more! 

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September 21, 2021 Help Your Store and Receive $400
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Help Your Store and Receive $400
September 21, 2021
What would you do with $1,200?  I ask because I'm sending a sales rep $1,200 today.  

What did the sales rep do?
  • She signed up three retailers for Bridge Store.
  • This gives the retailer an online store filled with the sale rep's products.
  • The rep saved each store thousands of dollars and months of work on tedious website work.
  • Now, the stores are selling more. The rep is making more in commission.
  • The rep helped herself--and her stores. 

Today, I'm mailing her ...
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August 31, 2021 New Feature: More Easily Manage a Gift Registry
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New Feature: More Easily Manage a Gift Registry
August 31, 2021
Your Bridge has a new feature that lets you more quickly manage your registries. You can now see all four pages that relate to a gift registry: 
  • Registry List
  • Edit Registry
  • Gift Purchases
  • Accounting

Please note: you (the merchant) can only see this sub navigation when you are logged in.

Previously, the links to these pages were in separate spots and not as easy to navigate to. View Post
August 4, 2021 Video: Indie Store Sassafras Saved More Than $1,000 and Months of Work (Video length: 6 minutes)
Video: Indie Store Sassafras Saved More Than $1,000 and Months of Work (Video length: 6 minutes)
August 4, 2021
This video shares how Bridge helped gift shop Sassafras in Mississippi. We helped Nancy, the owner, setup an online store and gift registry filled with 12k products in under 2 hours for free.

Visit Nancy’s Sassafras Bridge Store:

https://sassafras.bridgecatalog.com

Open a free Bridge account: http://www.bridgecatalog.com View Post

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