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January 27, 2023 Cooking Wine VS Regular Wine
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Cooking Wine VS Regular Wine
January 27, 2023
Have you ever noticed a category of wine that wasn’t labeled for drinking but rather for cooking? What is the difference between cooking wine and regular wine and can you use either? While you are able to put any regular wine into a dish, cooking wines are designed specifically for cooking. So let’s talk about what cooking wine is.
The main difference between cooking wine and drinking wine is the quality of the drink. Regular wine is finer and more flavorful and also has a stronger ...
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January 27, 2023 Do You Agree Defaults Are Important? ✅ Yes ___ No
How having the right defaults makes decisions easier for clients and helps them be more successful.
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Do You Agree Defaults Are Important? ✅ Yes ___ No
How having the right defaults makes decisions easier for clients and helps them be more successful.
January 27, 2023
When you look at your driver’s license, it lists if you’re an organ donor. Twenty years ago, only 20% of people were donors, but today 80% are—thereby saving millions of lives. Did people become more kind? No, the question on the application was changed from opt-in to opt-out. People signing up for or renewing a license are now by default enlisted in organ donation. Lesson: the right default answer in medical care can save millions of lives. Similarly, the right defaults ...
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January 26, 2023 Zola: A Rotten Gift to Indie Stores?
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Zola: A Rotten Gift to Indie Stores?
January 26, 2023
Our retailers recently told us that customers are calling and asking about non-existent brides, and brides are asking about non-existent registry gift lists (e.g. wedding registry lists, baby lists).

We investigated the issues and below is what we found. 

What is Happening:
We found that many of these purchases are coming from registrants that open a ‘universal registry’ on websites such as Zola or MyRegistry. These universal registry services allow the registrant to add ...
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January 26, 2023 Updated Feature: More Easily View Product Images
How to navigate between images for products.
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Updated Feature: More Easily View Product Images
How to navigate between images for products.
January 26, 2023
Your Bridge has an updated feature: it's now easier to view products images and browse to other related images. 

In the example, we see a Juliska Berry & Thread Classic Dinner Plate. In the product image modal, we can see the new features displayed.
  • The product's image modal now has forward and backward arrows.  One can navigate between images with using these.
  • As one scrolls through images, a border is applied to the current image thumbnail at the bottom. This
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January 25, 2023 Oven to Table Woven Casserole Holder with Square Pyrex Baking Dish
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Oven to Table Woven Casserole Holder with Square Pyrex Baking Dish
January 25, 2023
This adaptable Pyrex 2Qt casserole with a woven fitting basket makes a lovely oven-to-table presentation for celebrations or regular meals. It is great for oven-roasting vegetables, and meat, baking desserts, preparing sides, and more. The Pyrex dish's heat is retained by the woven tray so it can be served hot straight from the oven to the table. Additionally, it is created from durable vines that were ethically collected from an exotic forest.


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January 24, 2023 MyRegistry and Zola Are Confusing Merchants--and Sometimes Taking Their Orders
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MyRegistry and Zola Are Confusing Merchants--and Sometimes Taking Their Orders
January 24, 2023
Our retailers recently told us that they were confused by strange registry orders. The stores are receiving gift registry orders on their sites but the retailer does not have a registry for the gift recipient at its store. Customers are calling and asking about non-existent brides, and brides are asking about non-existent registry gift lists (e.g. wedding registry lists, baby lists).

We investigated the issues and below is what we found. 

What is Happening:
We found that many of...
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January 20, 2023 Party Platter Presentation
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Party Platter Presentation
January 20, 2023
You can be confident that you're dishing out the best quality, style, and delightful dining experience for family and visitors when you serve your favorite side dish, appetizer, or culinary masterpiece on a woven tray with porcelain dishes. One platter may hold three different kinds of sweets, dips, or appetizers! This attractive three-sectioned divided serving tray has a great texture and a modern, trendy design that will add elegance to any table setting or party food display. The serving tray...
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January 17, 2023 Updated Feature: Your Alert to Customers About Paying via Telephone
How to let customers know that your store will call them to receive payment for their order.
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Updated Feature: Your Alert to Customers About Paying via Telephone
How to let customers know that your store will call them to receive payment for their order.
January 17, 2023
Some Bridge merchants do not accept credit cards online. The merchant calls the customer (after they placed the order) to collect the customer's credit card information. For merchants that do not accept cards online, your Bridge has an updated feature that makes it  easier for customers to expect a call from the store.  A customer will now see a banner with a green telephone icon on the final checkout page. The banner displays this message:

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January 14, 2023 Celebrate the Simple, Delicious Pleasures of Good Pie
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Celebrate the Simple, Delicious Pleasures of Good Pie
January 14, 2023
The best comfort food is sent hot and fresh to your table, including this iconic Pyrex circular pie dish with an easy-grab heat-resistant, hot pot woven tray. Any rural, rustic, or American-style home environment benefits from its earthy tone, which is formed by strong organic vines. Have a great, loving, sweet weekend.


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January 12, 2023 Reasons for Rating Wine
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Reasons for Rating Wine
January 12, 2023
Critics and bloggers score or rate wines along with their tasting notes. It is common in Europe to use a 20 point rating scale and in America, it is common to use a 100 point scale. Regardless of the method, a wine rating is just that. A rating that you’ve given a particular wine. The reasons for rating wine are quite simple. The note-taker or taster is scoring the wine based on their personal impressions. With professionals, there are some criteria they may be looking for when doing this ...
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January 10, 2023 Amazon may be using empathy for small businesses to help large businesses
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Amazon may be using empathy for small businesses to help large businesses
January 10, 2023
I discovered a page on Amazon’s site proclaiming that Amazon supports small businesses. That is news to me and many small businesses which have been attacked by Amazon, its deep pockets, and its army of millions of delivery people and thousands of warehouses.  Amazon’s page says it helps small businesses, which it defines as having under 100 employees and less than $49 million in sales.  (It says it uses Gartner’s definition.) 

I checked: only 9% of small ...
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January 10, 2023 For Sales Reps & Brands: $468 Give-Get Referral Promotion
For Sales Reps & Brands: $468 Give-Get Referral Promotion
January 10, 2023
For Sales Reps & Brands:

I have some great news for you:
  • I'm giving you a $200 finder's fee when you refer a store. 
  • When you refer a store, the store will receive $268.  It will receive $100 towards a wholesale order with your brand and a $168 credit towards their registry service with us. (My company is paying the $100 wholesale order credit.)

Summary: you give a store $268 and you get $200. (Bridge covers the $468.) 

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January 6, 2023 We will be back on January 10th!
We will be back on January 10th!
January 6, 2023
After a long break and some behind the scenes work in the store, we are excited to welcome 2023 and our customers when we open on January 10th.

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January 4, 2023 New Feature: Easily Access Wholesale Information
How to view key wholesale information for your brands to save time and avoid errors when processing orders.
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New Feature: Easily Access Wholesale Information
How to view key wholesale information for your brands to save time and avoid errors when processing orders.
January 4, 2023
Your Bridge has a new feature: We've made it easier to access wholesale information for the products on your Bridge Store. Viewing an order's Details page displays wholesale information for products purchased by your customers.
 
Previously, when your store viewed a retail order's Details page the information displayed was limited to just details about the product’s brand.
 
With this update, the Order Details page includes:
  • Wholesale price of the product. 
  • Stock
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January 3, 2023 Networking in Dallas
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Networking in Dallas
January 3, 2023
At the Dallas trade show this week, I’ll be sporting our new Shop Local t-shirt.  In flight to the show, I’ll be reading how network effects help businesses, including retail shops. Indie shops and network effects go hand in hand. Retailers can effectively grow via network programs, including Bridge’s Product Syncing service and referral and affiliate programs.   To learn how networks can help your business, I recommend picking up a copy of The Cold ...
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December 28, 2022 Referrals: Johnny Softwareseed 👨‍🌾 🍎
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Referrals: Johnny Softwareseed 👨‍🌾 🍎
December 28, 2022
In the book The Cold Start Problem, Andrew Chen says that the 'network effect’ is really three effects: 
  • The acquisition effect 
  • The engagement effect
  • The monetization effect 

In the beginning, a business seeking to build a network has to concentrate on acquiring users, even if they are non-paying. Companies often give away the service, especially software companies, and we can see that with Facebook, Slack, TikTok, and many others.  Bridge didn’t do ...
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December 23, 2022 Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice ✨
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Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice ✨
December 23, 2022
It’s beginning to smell a lot like Christmas, especially when the scent of cinnamon fills the kitchen, and the littles are decorating gingerbread houses. 🥧
Sugar and spice? Indeed! Everything nice? Absolutely! 😊 View Post
December 23, 2022 Wine Bottle Coaster Holiday Cheers!
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Wine Bottle Coaster Holiday Cheers!
December 23, 2022
Whether you are entertaining a group of friends or looking to add some holiday cheer to your home, this woven wine bottle coaster is the perfect centerpiece for that gathering.   It is made of pure, 100% organic vines showcasing a natural rustic realness, evoking woodsy images adding an authentic touch to your favorite bottles of reds, whites, and rosés.  Cheers to the holiday season!


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December 21, 2022 Celebrate the Season with a Trio of Holiday Giftables from Beatriz Ball
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Celebrate the Season with a Trio of Holiday Giftables from Beatriz Ball
December 21, 2022
Handmade and artfully designed Beatriz Ball items at irresistible prices, each packaged in a lovely gift box.

Make someone—or yourself—happy with these charming Holiday gift items from Beatriz Ball!
·     With its shimmering surface and wonderful wintertime details, Beatriz Ball's GIFTABLES Holiday Sled Cracker Tray offers an easy and stylish solution for serving crackers throughout the Holiday Season and all winter long. With charming styling ...
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December 20, 2022 65% of Brands Offer Free Shipping vs.14% of Indie Stores ...Where Would You Shop?
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65% of Brands Offer Free Shipping vs.14% of Indie Stores ...Where Would You Shop?
December 20, 2022
More than 65% of brands surveyed by Bridge offer free shipping, while just 14% of indie stores do. Brands often charge just $118 to quality for free shipping, while stores charge $190 (a $72 difference). Where would you shop?

Bridge analyzed the websites for the top-40 selling brands in the tabletop and giftware industry. We assessed what promotions and discounts, such free shipping, brands offer. Bridge did this because a product's price, which is impacted by discounts, is often the leading ...
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