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June 14, 2022 Summertime is Here!!! ☀️
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Summertime is Here!!! ☀️
June 14, 2022
☀️Celebrate Summertime entertaining… Peasant mats are perfect for dining alfresco... made of recycled, crinkled kraft paper for a marvelous texture, and rubbed with a special dry wax coating to repel water and stains. Peasant Mats can be used again and again by wiping them clean with a damp cloth. You never need to worry about laundering them. When the mats are dirty, simply dispose or deliver them to your favorite recycling center. Currently available in 15 colors! 🌈Recyclable, Reusable...
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June 14, 2022 Nature-Friendly Cocktail Napkin Holder
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Nature-Friendly Cocktail Napkin Holder
June 14, 2022
A beautiful handwoven centerpiece designed for luncheon napkins, cocktail napkins or guest towels for your next party, shower, buffet or social events.  This handwoven napkin holder made of natural vines is also a great addition for the kitchen counter, table or as a small tray for your vanity or bathroom.


CALAISIO
natural elegance, extraordinary durability
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June 13, 2022 Optimizing 🦾
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Optimizing 🦾
June 13, 2022
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.

Embracing lists that we seek to ...
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June 7, 2022 Pampa Bay Eclipse Collection
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Pampa Bay Eclipse Collection
June 7, 2022
Evoke the majesty of a solar eclipse with this collection that combines elegant black glazed high-fired porcelain and dazzling gold titanium. These pieces will bring a contemporary look to any table. Food safe, tarnish free, dishwasher safe, oven safe to 500°. Tarnish and stain-free. Easy Care. View Post
June 2, 2022 Polite Company~ Who Needs Manners Anyway?
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Polite Company~ Who Needs Manners Anyway?
June 2, 2022
We All Do!
A word popped into my head this morning as I was driving to the office. 
“Polite company.”  Hmmm, now that is a thought that can take many twists and turns.
The social interaction that goes with the meal is more important than the plates .But we love it when the environment and the conversation dovetale into a memorable enjoyable gathering.
To have a company or business characterized by courtesy is one way to think of it, but that is not what we are talking ...
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June 2, 2022 Facebook’s ticker should be: DATA…or THEFT
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Facebook’s ticker should be: DATA…or THEFT
June 2, 2022
Today’s WSJ article made me think:
1.  We need to reserve a ticker symbol for Bridge, like BRDG. 

2. Meta should use the ticker DATA or THEFT, as that’s the business they’re in. They are in the business of using your personal data—whether via Facebook or in the metaverse, often without us being aware.  To see a web page on Facebook or Instagram often requires logging in. Don’t want to log in? Too bad, that’s the only way to see the content. ...
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June 2, 2022 Hello June! Good Morning Friends!
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Hello June! Good Morning Friends!
June 2, 2022
Coffee is my must-have accessory. Adding this sultry, dense rustic woven placemat handcrafted entirely of natural vines with golden-yellow and brown hues makes coffee taste better. Enjoy your family, your friends and your coffee!


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May 31, 2022 Ambassadors 🍪
Ambassadors 🍪
May 31, 2022
I was reading enviously about college kids adopting an app called BeReal and noticed that BeReal is employing ambassadors on college campuses. I even looked up the app’s page about this ambassador program (https://bere.al/en/ambassadors). Sure enough, a week later the Times published another college app piece on Sidechat (yes, I was sadly still reading about tween apps a week later…). Again, the app is finding success via campus ambassadors.  

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May 30, 2022 Jerry Chazen, Who Helped Create Store-within-a-store Concept, Passes
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Jerry Chazen, Who Helped Create Store-within-a-store Concept, Passes
May 30, 2022
When I explain Bridge's Product Syncing service, I sometimes compare the service to the store-within-a-store concept at the mall.  I didn't know that Jerry Chazen, who helped found Liz Claiborne, pioneered that concept in the 1980s. Thank you, Jerry.

Mr. Chazen passed in February 2022. Read the obituary for Mr. Chazen here:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/liz-claiborne-co-founder-helped-create-a-fashion-star-11644505274

 
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May 30, 2022 Memorial Day Entertaining
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Memorial Day Entertaining
May 30, 2022
Let`s celebrate America together today, to remember and honor all the brave heroes who served. Kick off a modern patriotic theme with a twist of nature-inspired placemats and napkin rings by Calaisio. The natural vines and its neutral tones are the perfect base for mixing and matching. Happy Memorial Day!


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May 24, 2022 Cozy Breakfast Nook Ideas
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Cozy Breakfast Nook Ideas
May 24, 2022
Good morning. May your day be as wonderful as the first sip. Morning coffee tastes even better when you serve it on such a cozy table setting by Calaisio. These placemats handwoven from 100% natural vines offers organic simplicity on your breakfast nook.


CALAISIO
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May 23, 2022 Good News: 273 RöSLE Products Are Ready for Syncing
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Good News: 273 RöSLE Products Are Ready for Syncing
May 23, 2022
We are pleased to announce that RöSLE USA is ready to sync products with retailers via Bridge.
 
RöSLE is sharing 273 products in 4 collections via Bridge. Please view their synced products here:
https://rosle.bridgecatalog.com/collections.cfm/Rosle.
 
Retailers who sync with RöSLE products save time and money:
  • By syncing, the retailer can save $273 and 2 days in labor.
  • Sync with RöSLE on Bridge is free.
  • Syncing takes less than 
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May 22, 2022 Businesses Should Want a Membership—Not a Subscription. Why?
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Businesses Should Want a Membership—Not a Subscription. Why?
May 22, 2022
When talking about memberships and subscriptions, these two business models are sometimes interchanged but actually are different. They often differ in their pricing, customers, and offerings.  A subscription is often not a membership, but a membership often encompasses a subscription.  A membership is often an elevated and more powerful subscription that collectivizes and leverages the subscribers.

What They Have In Common
With both models, you often pay a fee and receive a ...
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May 22, 2022 Tableware Today: 4 Brands Promote Bridge
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Tableware Today: 4 Brands Promote Bridge
May 22, 2022
We're happy to see four brands promote Bridge in Tableware Today's June/July 2022 issue.

In each advertisement, the brand displays Bridge’s ‘B’ logo in the lower left or right of the page.  The brands that promote Bridge include:
  • Bordhallo Pinheiro
  • Carmel Ceramica
  • Pampa Bay
  • Vista Alegre

The brands show the Bridge logo so that retailers reading the publication will know that they can easily sell the products shown. Since e-commerce makes up 30% of U.S. ...
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May 17, 2022 Connection 👫
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Connection 👫
May 17, 2022
In the past, we’ve used spin classes and gyms as inspiration for Bridge. We see them as metaphors for helping retail business owners.  The founders of SoulCycle, Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice, must have been eavesdropping on us: they are expanding their spinning approach to another sphere. The Times reports they have started Peoplehood, a business that seeks to help people via self-help (group-help?) sessions. It’s SoulCycle for the soul&...
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May 17, 2022 Entertaining Casserole Dishes
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Entertaining Casserole Dishes
May 17, 2022
This standard Pyrex oven-to-table glass baking dish makes an exciting piece of serveware with Calaisio`s custom fit serving basket. Handcrafted in a tight weave of natural heat resistant vines, its rustic texture and tone add a vintage-style serving to your dining table. That`s entertainment! Available in 2Qt and 4Qt.


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May 13, 2022 Salmon Saturdays!
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Salmon Saturdays!
May 13, 2022
Bless the food before us, the family beside us, and the love between us. Families have their traditions and those traditions are sacred. When I was a child my family would always have salmon on Saturdays. We called it Salmon Saturdays. Comment below on some of the family traditions you would have with yours! View Post
May 13, 2022 SUMMER is here...
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SUMMER is here...
May 13, 2022
...and it's time to refresh your outdoor entertaining pieces!

Outdoor dining- especially popular in the summer months when temperatures and weather are most favorable. It is a style of dining that is casual and often party-like in its atmosphere. Refresh your outdoor space with these summer staples! 
  • The pineapple--the symbol of hospitality--makes a welcome appearance! With its sculptural form and richly detailed surface, the silver GARDEN Pineapple Small Chip & Dip is both
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May 11, 2022 NYT: More Registrants Want Cash...And We're Not Talking Gift Cards
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NYT: More Registrants Want Cash...And We're Not Talking Gift Cards
May 11, 2022
This week's Times shares that brides are increasingly asking for cash gifts. This trend pulls back the curtain on the underbelly of wedding gifts.  Over the last 20 years, a trend emerged where a bride would ask for a traditional gift (i.e. a crystal champagne flute set, a fine china plate, etc.) but then redeem the credit for a television or vacuum. The stores that were especially adept at this were the big-box stores with a wide variety of offerings like Macy's and Target. They would use ...
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May 11, 2022 Bus-ta Move 🚌
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Bus-ta Move 🚌
May 11, 2022
In Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0, which the Bridge team is currently reading, the author Jim Collins confesses that he missed a key ingredient 25 years ago when he wrote the first edition. He states that he now realizes the most important part of achieving a great company is: getting the right people 'on the bus.’  I agree. Fourteen and a half years ago (long before I opened this book), I was lucky enough to pick up the right ‘passenger:' Moshe replied to my job posting (...
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