A touch of gold never gets old! The vibrant and colorful New Orleans Collection represents something of a departure for Beatriz Ball, but upholds the company’s championing of handmade traditions and artistry.
Featuring layers of cracked gold foil applied to clear glass, the piece is a glittering stunner for serving as well as home décor. Great for serving baked goods, it has a rich and sophisticated look that is at home in modern or traditional interiors.
Spring is just a few weeks away and Azores has us dreaming of setting a softly layered spring table! Our hand painted collection, inspired by beautiful shimmering lagoons, and breathtaking waterfalls found on the magnificent Portugal islands of Azores. Artists carefully hand paint the borders of each Azores plate using a matte glaze for Blue Lagoon and a beautiful light grey for Greige Shimmer. 💙🤍💙🤍
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Each piece in the Field of Flowers Collection features a unique and romantic motif of chambray blue hues, making it a beautiful collection to layer as a set or mixed and matched with our other collections, don't forget a dusty pink napkin for a divine touch! 💙
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We’re obsessed with Cantaria layered in White (shiny) and Matte White!!🤍
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Cantaria, which means stonework in Portuguese, aptly describes this masterfully created collection. The organic shape and hammered texture offers a traditional look, or a sophisticated, modern elegance. Mix, match and play, the 13 stunning colors complement each other when layered. Simple, timeless and pure perfection definitely describes the Cantaria Collection. Handcrafted in Portugal of ceramic stoneware, the ...
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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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How we can bring clients together to build a larger network.
February 4, 2023
Economist Bent Flyvbjerg encourages us to find our “Lego” in his new book “How Big Things Get Done.” Mr. Flyvbjerg, whose new book is reviewed by Ben Cohen in this week’s The Wall Street Journal, says that most large projects that are completed successfully use a modular approach. Excerpt from The Wall Street Journal:
“That’s the question every project leader should ask: What is the small thing we can assemble in large numbers into a big ...
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How integrating a messaging service into our e-commerce platform can help us acquire new customers.
January 31, 2023
It takes a lot of people to build a bridge, but just two to tango. This applies to the analog world as well as the digital one. In the digital space, I'm using tango to refer to messaging between two people. I believe messaging is a service we can add to our offering to diversify how our company Shop Local grows.
Different Networks Require a Different Number of Users in a Group
Andrew Chen in The Cold Start Problem states that a key difference among network models is the required minimum ...
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Noma, the world-famous Copenhagen restaurant, is closing to concentrate on e-commerce. Excerpt from the Times:
“Noma will become a full-time food laboratory, developing new dishes and products for its e-commerce operation, Noma Projects, and the dining rooms will be open only for periodic pop-ups.”
This change supports the breath and power of e-commerce, and portends coming changes for our retail industry. It’s not that one can’t eke out a ...
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Featuring layers of gold leaf foil under handmade glass, this Beatriz Ball centerpiece has a rich and sophisticated look that is at home in both modern and traditional interiors.
Beatriz Ball’s GLASS New Orleans Cracked Gold Foil Leafing Centerpiece with Scalloped Edges (Gold) boasts a generous serving area enlivened by a wavy scalloped border. Sure to be the center of attention on any Holiday table!
A beautiful example of reverse glass gilding in which layers of porous cracked gold ...
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Google is often considered the first stop when searching for information. Looking for a product? You'll likely head to Amazon.com, where due to its 350m product listings, 25% of purchases reportedly start. Facebook will be your go-to for finding friends and family due to its 2b profiles of people. Airbnb lets you search 5.6m places to stay. These businesses are likely your choice because people want a massive selection when conducting a search. Many of the world's most ...
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In her new book ‘Quit,' Annie Duke shares that the best poker players only play 25% of the hands they are dealt, whereas others play 50%. Ms. Duke talks with Stewart Butterfield, the founder of a few startups, most recently Slack (which is an acronym, which I didn’t know). Slack wouldn’t have been born if Mr. Butterfield didn’t drop a video game company to start Slack. Likewise for Twitter which was born out of the failed blogging company Odeo. Ms. Duke's lesson: winners ...
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Bridge helps 1,000 indie stores offer gift registries. We've handled 70,000 registries. One trend we've noticed over the year is The Knot, a leading wedding website provider, is minimizing sales opportunities for indie stores. The Knot has created partnerships with big-box players, including Crate & Barrel, Macy's, Bloomingdale's, and Amazon, and relegated the indie stores to the bottom of the bride's page.
In this example, we see the indie stores displayed at the very bottom ...
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Bridge has teamed up with 23 premium brands to offer an exciting promotion. A retailer can place an order at the Atlanta show and get $200 off its wholesale order. The store will receive a free Bridge account. The account will contain the products the store ordered. With this solution, a store can quickly promote and sell what it just bought at the show. The store's Bridge account will also contain other products that the brand offers. With this approach, the stores can quickly...
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In the movie Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon, who plays a handsome MIT janitor moonlighting as a math savant (can one say, “Hollywood career vehicle”?), woos a young lady (played by the actress Minnie Driver) by outmaneuvering a few competing, obnoxious cads. When Damon’s character gets the girl's telephone number, he proudly shows it to the other guys and boasts, with his South Boston access, “How 'bout ‘dem apples?” I imagine Tim Cook imitating this...
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Bridge has teamed up with four brands to offer an exciting promotion. Stores can place an order at the Dallas or Atlanta shows and get $200 off their wholesale order. The store will receive a free Bridge account. The account will contain the products the store ordered. With this solution, a store can quickly promote and sell what it just bought at the show. The Bridge account will also contain other products that the brand offers. With this approach, the stores...
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The Brick report helps our company track our past and current progress. Our team can easily look back at the last 78 weeks and know what we did. (Most companies would be hard pressed to do this easily.) The Brick brings us together and keeps us on the same (web)page. Its success leads to me ask: “Could we have an approach that helps us look at our future?" I’ve sometimes thought about crafting a weekly 'Horizon Report' that would share what’s next for us.
Royal Crown Derby is pleased to share a video of the BBC News feature yesterday evening. This video shows a small insight into their premium quality commemoratives, handcraft techniques and their relationship with royalty across the globe.