How to easily view and edit your relationship with your brands.
April 18, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has an updated feature: We've made it easier to manage your relationship with a business and the brands it manages. Clicking on a brand's logo opens a modal where your store can view and edit its relationship with the brand.
Previously, your store could edit its relationship with a business but not easily edit its relationship with a brand.
Now, the updated modals allow your store to view and manage the relationship with a business and the brands it ...
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How to view wholesale orders placed by your store.
April 11, 2023
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We've made it easier to to see your recent wholesale orders. At the top of your account, when you hover over “Orders” you'll see the drop-down shows wholesale orders your store placed.
Previously, the Orders drop-down only displayed retail orders. To see your wholesale orders, you had to click the Orders link, then navigate to the Wholesale Orders page.
In the example shown, we see a retailer's drop-down displaying ...
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We are introducing 3 brand-new coaster collections today. They are all easy-care vinyl featuring stunning embroidered details!
Featuring the same finish as our Presto Mats, the Chains round coasters are available in 4 vibrant and fun color combinations. The Pearls napkins have the same finish as our Pronto Mats and are available in 4 sophisticated color combinations. Last, but not least, we have the Link square coasters, available in 3 versatile colors.
How to view all of a registry's gift givers on one page.
March 29, 2023
Your Online Store has a new feature: We've made it easier for you and your registrants to view information about a registry's gift givers. There is now a dedicated Gift Givers page that displays purchases grouped by the gift giver.
Traditionally, orders are organized by date. This page groups orders by the gift giver. The page outputs a registry’s gift givers’ emails and addresses on one page making it handy to manage thank you notes.
How to save time when accessing popular product-related services and pages.
March 27, 2023
Your Online Store has a new feature: We've made it easier to access important product-related services and content. This feature reduces the number of clicks needed to perform actions and access pages.
In the Master Bar of your Store, there is now a Products icon. This icon’s drop down includes many of the popular product-related services your business likely uses. Previously, you would need to visit the Management home page to view many of these links.
How to connect with or invite the sales reps assigned to your brands to sell more and quickly access their contact information.
March 20, 2023
Your Online Store has an updated feature: you can now more easily connect with your sales reps.
On a brand's home page, you can invite your sales rep to join you on the Shop Local platform. Your store can also edit or remove a sales rep assigned to a brand.
Connecting with your sales reps helps your store contact the right rep more quickly, sell more products, and work more efficiently.
Art and design play a crucial role in creating a unique and memorable brand identity. However, designing compelling art and graphics can be a challenging task, especially for brands and retailers looking to create something that stands out in a crowded market. Midjourney, a new AI-based service, may provide valuable inspiration when designing products. Brands may be able to differentiate themselves from the competition.
Midjourney is an image creation software that reads whatever ...
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About Nicolette Mayer Collection
Produced by dedicated artisans in America, the Nicolette Mayer Collection offers over 1500 Art de la Table items. Nicolette Mayer is a lifestyle brand whose product categories include:
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.)
This offer is good through May 1, 2023.
Summary: you give a store $268 and you get $200. (Bridge ...
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How to view key wholesale information for your brands to save time and avoid errors when processing orders.
February 23, 2023
Your Bridge Shop Local Store has a new feature: you can now more easily access a brand's wholesale information. This wholesale information helps your store more quickly and accurately process an order.
Your brand's Collection page now displays this information:
How to take a tour of important navigation features on your Shop Local site.
February 15, 2023
Your Online Store has a new feature: Using blue boxes, we have created a tour to guide you through the software's important navigation features. Taking this tour will help you save time and better utilize your software.
The tour explains these links:
Home Page
Dashboard
Activity
Your Orders
Wholesale
Your Inbox
Account Management
Syncing
Add
Display Mode
Your Profile
Please follow these steps to access the navigation tour:
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'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.)
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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Your Bridge has a new feature: We've made it easier to navigate to important pages on your Bridge account. Hovering over the user profile icon at the top of the page reveals a drop-down list with links leading to your business profile settings, retail orders you’ve received, wholesale orders you’ve placed, and products you’ve liked.
With this update, one can use the links in the user profile drop-down to get to the desired content more quickly.
Your Bridge has a new feature: We've made it easier to navigate to different pages of your Bridge site with search shortcuts. Searching for a keyword in the gray search bar at the top of your account populates a shortcut button that is linked to a page related to that keyword.
Previously, one would have browsed the site's navigation to find what they wished to view. With this update, one can use the search field to get to the desired content more quickly.