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April 29, 2021 New Baobab Candles At Glassworks!
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New Baobab Candles At Glassworks!
April 29, 2021
All of Baobab's candles are hand-poured in Belgium into glass that was hand-blown by master craftsmen in Poland, making each one completely unique.
Click here to shop for Baobab on this website.
These magnificent objects of decoration are inspired by faraway places and wild nature, with the brand’s iconic perfumes.  In a transparent hand-blown glass with black details, the pictured Black Pearls scented candle is as precious as the black pearls from which it draws its name. The Black...
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April 28, 2021 Success Story: A Store Saved $17,250 and 29 Weeks of Labor
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Success Story: A Store Saved $17,250 and 29 Weeks of Labor
April 28, 2021
Pizazz, a bridal and gift shop in Columbus, MS, signed up for a Bridge Store yesterday.  It instantly received from Bridge an online store and an online gift registry for free.  Within one day, it also offered 23,000+ products online.  The store was able to quickly offer so many products using Bridge's Smart Products service.  The service crowdsources product maintenance and allows each respective brand to manage its items behind the scenes. 

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April 28, 2021 Learn: The #1 Hidden Barrier Stopping Indie Stores--and How to Overcome It (5 minutes)
Learn: The #1 Hidden Barrier Stopping Indie Stores--and How to Overcome It (5 minutes)
April 28, 2021

In this 5 minute video, I share the secret to what is stopping stores from succeeding online--and a solution to overcome this.

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April 27, 2021 Success Story: Bridge Saved A Store $7,500 and 13 Weeks of Labor
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Success Story: Bridge Saved A Store $7,500 and 13 Weeks of Labor
April 27, 2021
The Carriage House in Indianola, MS, signed up for a Bridge Store today. In just a few hours, it had an online store, a gift registry, and 10,000+ products to offer.

Without Bridge, a store often pays about $750 for every 1,000 products it adds to its website--and this takes about 50 hours.

By using Bridge, the store has already saved about $7,500 and 500 hours (about 13 weeks).

The Carriage House offers on its Bridge Store the full product offerings from fine brands like Annieglass, ...
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April 27, 2021 In 29 States, Our Stores have a Page 1 Google Ranking
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In 29 States, Our Stores have a Page 1 Google Ranking
April 27, 2021
Bridge is helping indie stores take back market share: 
  • When searching for gift registries, Google displays on page 1 more retailers using Bridge software than any other retailer or software provider. 
  • Stores using Bridge are beating big-box stores such as Bed Bath & Beyond, Walmart, and Target in Google.
  • We are helping stores out rank online players like Amazon and Zola.
  • Bridge retailers are also ranking higher than stores using other e-commerce software such as Shopify,
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April 23, 2021 RetailDive: Florida is the latest state to create e-commerce tax
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RetailDive: Florida is the latest state to create e-commerce tax
April 23, 2021
Good news for indie stores: Florida will require out-of-state sellers shipping to the state to charge tax. Taxes are a big deal in Florida: since Florida has no income tax, it has a notable state sales tax (6%, compared with New York’s 4%), with Florida municipalities adding up to another 1.5%. The incentive to buy online from out of state 'saved' the Florida buyer about 7.5%.  

Now, this Florida law will level the playing field and remove the incentive to dodge taxes as everyone ...
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April 23, 2021 Thanks ‘a latte,’ Covid
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Thanks ‘a latte,’ Covid
April 23, 2021
Many of our kitchen stores sell coffee-related goods. Today’s WSJ shares that Nestle’s coffee machine and pod sales were up 17%. 

Read the full article here: 
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/at-home-coffee-boom-during-pandemic-powers-sales-at-nestle-11619090637
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Glassworks And Cheeks Pop Up Shop At PAINT Nail Bar - Pittsburgh Saturday, April 24th! Saturday, April 24, 2021
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Glassworks And Cheeks Pop Up Shop At PAINT Nail Bar - Pittsburgh Saturday, April 24th! Saturday, April 24, 2021
We will be at PAINT Nail Bar - Pittsburgh on Saturday from 10 - 2 with a sampling of Tabletop and Lingerie from Glassworks and Cheeks. The Nail Salon is located in Bloomfield at 5201 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA  15224.  Check out this new local business and pop in for pretty spring nails. Hope to see you there!

Click here to shop on this website.
 
Click here to see store info on our Cheeks website.

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April 22, 2021 Happy to see lots of indie businesses promoted in the Times
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Happy to see lots of indie businesses promoted in the Times
April 22, 2021
I’d like to see publications across the country running stories like this.  

Ps-The Times has a weekly shopping section in which it lists five products. Often the majority of items shown have a link suggesting the reader purchase the item at amazon.com. I’d like to see the Times update its reporting in this weekly article to suggest buying from indie stores. 

Read the full article about shopping local at the NYT here: 
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes....
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April 21, 2021 Mother's Day Gift!
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Mother's Day Gift!
April 21, 2021
https://www.piecesofeightgifts.com/details.cfm?keywords=50188801&sort=pattern_a&ProdID=409698&Mothers-Day-24-VersesJust arrived!  Set of 24 scripture cards with acrylic easel for Mother's Day! View Post
April 20, 2021 Video: 5 Materials Sales Reps Use to Help Their Stores (3 minutes)
Video: 5 Materials Sales Reps Use to Help Their Stores (3 minutes)
April 20, 2021
FOR SALES REPS

In this video, I share how reps help their stores sell more online. I start with the Website Grader, and then share four other supporting materials. Please find PDFs of those print materials here: https://marketplace.guclub.org/library.cfm?id=2303

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April 19, 2021 Video: Amazon Logo Is Not What You Think It Is (3 minutes)
Video: Amazon Logo Is Not What You Think It Is (3 minutes)
April 19, 2021

Is Amazon’s logo a 'smile' or a hidden strategy? Jason Solarek proposes that the smile is its business plan. The ‘smile’ is actually a representation of how the company skips most players in the retail chain.

Watch to learn more about the hidden meaning of the Amazon logo:
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April 18, 2021 Storytelling 📖
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Storytelling 📖
April 18, 2021
This past week I finally started doing a better job of sharing our vision. A company’s vision and how it shares this story is a key pillar in its growth. A company can grow without being a good vision sharer (storyteller), but it makes the growth slower and harder. When one gets up on stage (metaphorically) and shares their vision, with passion, it’s magnetic and can help split the sea.  What medium did we add to our story-sharing tools this week? Video.  I made and shared ...
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April 18, 2021 WaPo: 40 percent of the nation’s department stores have closed since 2016
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WaPo: 40 percent of the nation’s department stores have closed since 2016
April 18, 2021
"Nearly 200 department stores have shuttered in the past year, and another 800 — roughly half the country’s remaining mall-based locations — are expected to fold within five years."

Read the full article about department store closings at The Washington Post here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/16/half-countrys-remaining-mall-based-department-stores-are-expected-shutter-by-2025/
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April 17, 2021 Matching tea cups and t-shirts?
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Matching tea cups and t-shirts?
April 17, 2021
This weekend’s WSJ reports on a trend to coordinate one’s attire with their home furnishings and table settings.   

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/hosting-a-dinner-try-matching-your-dress-to-your-plates-11618518350 View Post
Joseph Ribkoff Trunk Show At Cheeks Thursday, April 22nd! Thursday, April 22, 2021
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Joseph Ribkoff Trunk Show At Cheeks Thursday, April 22nd! Thursday, April 22, 2021
Location: Cheeks - Squirrel Hill location, 5873 Forbes Avenue

Join us from 10 - 6 at our Squirrel Hill location, 5873 Forbes Avenue. The Joseph Ribkoff representative will have Wear Now - Spring & Summer pieces and early Fall preview fashions (over 300 pieces). Complimentary gift with purchase. Raffle prizes for $100 JR gift certificates. Stop in!

Click here to see store info on our Cheeks website: https://www.cheekslingerie.com/

We are following state guidelines by sanitizing, social distancing, and wearing masks, so you must also. For a private...
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April 13, 2021 Bridge in 2012
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Bridge in 2012
April 13, 2021
I came across this 2012 HFN article about Bridge. In 2012, we had 40 stores using our e-commerce software. Today, we have more than 740.  Thank you for helping us grow 18x in the last nine years :)

We’re pleased to see William-Wayne & Co. featured in the article. This NYC retail heirloom has been a client since 2001–before we even started Bridge or the Smart Products marketing service. They’re still a client today. Thank you William-Wayne & Co. for trusting with...
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April 11, 2021 Fun Sells--and Generates Free Publicity
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Fun Sells--and Generates Free Publicity
April 11, 2021
Offering products that make people smile is a winning strategy. RetailDive shares that leading shoe brands Vans and Adidas are running with this strategy. Adidas recently offered Lego and Meissen shoes, and Vans offers shoes inspired by local businesses from across the country.

The sales of these shoes can be minimal, yet the effort is a marketing gold because its gets free press mentions and this helps the brand's halo. 

Vans' Zabars shoes are part of a larger Vans campaign that ...
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April 11, 2021 Does Your Business Offer a Subscription Service? Maybe It Should
Does Your Business Offer a Subscription Service? Maybe It Should
April 11, 2021
RetailDive shares that Best Buy has launched a membership program, joining the ranks fo Amazon, Walmart, Restoration Hardware, and Urban Outfitters.

Read the full article at RetailDive
https://www.modernretail.co/retailers/retailers-are-launching-membership-programs-to-compete-with-amazon-prime/
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April 10, 2021 Expanding Bridge's Customer Base to Help More Brands
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Expanding Bridge's Customer Base to Help More Brands
April 10, 2021
Best of Thymes, an indie store in Iowa, just closed (https://bestofthymes.bridgecatalog.com/news.cfm?id=20645). Hopefully, they’ll continue to operate online and keep using Bridge. Best of Thymes is part of an industry-wide series of closures that is affecting large and small retailers. Due to this, brands are increasing their efforts to go D2C. Brands justify this by saying that there are fewer stores to show their wares. While this is true, surely they are motivated by: 2x the margins. ...
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