Your customers can now more easily access your custom monogram services. Customers can access the advanced monogram services page from a specific product details page. (Previously, they could only access this service from the brand's home page.)
In the example shown, we are viewing a Pickard Signature product on Texas-based retailer The Ivy House. The customer sees the link "Custom Monogram Order Form For Pickard Signature". Clicking this takes them to the ...
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Today’s Times shares how Amazon sends out plenty of press releases announcing innovative services but actually invests the vast majority of its resources into very old-fashioned techniques.
I believe the business world often gives too much attention to innovation. I imagine this is due to many business people consuming news, books, and other media that laud innovation. I believe the reason these outlets overpromote innovation that one can’t sell a book promising: boring. &...
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Part of my job is to review registry software. I ensure that it works well for retailers, registrants, and gift-givers (family and friends). I also assess whether it offers good value (price vs results).
A retailer recently shared with me that it uses the service MyRegistry.com. I reviewed the retailer's site and how a customer would make a registry purchase via MyRegistry.com. For privacy purposes, I changed the name of the store in the screenshots shown.
By special request, Suzanne Brown Grant, made her delicious Lime Cake and shared it everyone at Gaines Jewelers.
RECIPE!!! For Susie's Lime Cake recipe, here it is:
1 yellow cake mix
1 3oz box jello, lime
4 eggs
3/4 c water
3/4 c oil
Pinch of salt
Combine all & mix on high 4 minutes. Pour into greased/floured tube pan. Bake at 350 for 45 min.
Make a glaze of 2 cups powdered sugar & 1/2 cup ReaLime; make holes all over warm cake & slowly drizzle glaze all over. Cool in pan....
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You can now add more links in your header area. In the example shown, DeVine Corporation has added links to all of its brands as well links to other key pages.
Customers are more likely to click blue hyperlinks. Due to this, Bridge is updating accounts to use more blue links. If your account has a gray horizontal navigation bar, we're updating this bar to instead have a white background with blue links.
In the example shown, we can see before and after screenshots for the gift shop Barbara Stewart Interiors. On the left, we see a dark gray horizontal bar with white text links. On the right, we see the new white bar with blue text links.
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New features for retailers:
1. You can now customize your horizontal navigation's font and link colors.
Previously, your horizontal navigation ("Home," "Gift Registry," "Designers," etc.) was dark gray with white links. Now, you can make it any combination you'd like. In the example shown, it's a white background with gold links.
To customize your link colors, please do this:
A. Visit your Bridge account.
B. Log in.
C. Roll over "Management" ...
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Retailers have asked us about selling via Facebook. For starters, you can easily share your products from Bridge to your Facebook account. Your Bridge account is the ideal resource to pick from thousands of products and share them via social media.
Facebook does offer options to let visitors buy within Facebook, and this route often 'Facebook Marketplace.' Please note this warning about selling via Facebook Marketplace: you will not get paid until 15 - 20 days after you ship the ...
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How is everyone doing?!? We are doing everything we CAN to stay in touch with y'all!
Do you follow us on FACEBOOK? What about INSTAGRAM? We encourage you to click on our links and give us a follow ... we're posting images of product, decorating ideas, videos of product areas and more on a daily basis ... even if you just want to look/watch for entertainment purposes!!! (yes, we know we're not the best at video, but we're trying!!!)
Covid-19 has changed how people are shopping. Many states have banned stores from being open. Most shoppers can ONLY shop online. Let's update your Bridge account for this new era.
You're invited to a new, free webinar:
Website Preparation in Response to Covid-19
The link is up for anyone who wants to buy a T-shirt to support local Dublin small businesses! You can choose the business you want to support ($5 of your purchase of each shirt) before you check out! We would love for you to choose Colleen's! Every little bit helps...we are all in this together!!
Covid-19 has changed how people are shopping. Many states have banned stores from being open. And, Amazon is processing millions of online orders. Let's get your website ready for this new era.
You're invited to a new, free webinar:
Website Preparation in Response to Covid-19
A store owner named Alice from South Carolina called me this AM:
She owns a jewelry store started more than 50 years ago.
Like most retailers, she has an older website with little product on it and no online registry.
While the economy was good, Alice kept putting off investing in a new website.
When the Coronavirus outbreak happened last week, she faced the reality of having to spend $5k on a new website that would take two months to setup. Alice feels that is too much
You can customize your Bridge gift registry home page. Below are some tips to accomplish this. Please note: you have to be logged in to your account to customize your design and view edit features.
Add your logo. You can do this by visiting 'Your Account Profile' and clicking on the 'Design' tab.
Customize your horizontal navigation bar color and font. You can do this by visiting 'Your Account Profile' and clicking on the 'Design' tab.
2. Please search for the store "Paddiwack" or its city "Gainesville".
Why is the find a store feature important? The find a store feature, which Bridge offers to all brands, distributors and sales reps for free, helps drive shoppers ...
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