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May 11, 2017
May 11, 2017
LVMH is taking a stab at the online luxury market with 24 Sévres, the new shopping site and app. Definitely a competitor to Amazon in the luxury fashion arena. It might even eat their lunch in this category.
From today's NY Times: LVMH and the Next Big Digital Shopping Experience
PARIS — Ian Rogers, chief digital officer of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, sat in his sunlit office on Avenue Montaigne last month, alongside a large cactus with a mélange of Pucci-pattern skateboards and black and ...
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May 10, 2017
Bridge Brand Conference
Thursday, May 18th
9 am EST or 1 pm EST
Join brands that use Bridge at the first annual Bridge Brand Conference.
When?
Thursday, May 18th
Time?
Choose your session:
Morning (9 am - 12 pm)
or
Afternoon (1 pm - 4 pm)
Where?
Nambé Showroom
6th Floor
41 Madison Avenue, NYC
What will the conference entail?
Each session will have 3 segments:
Segment 1: Grow your sales. Viewing, analyzing, and acting on sales data. Adding (and removing) retailers and sales reps to your network. ...
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May 1, 2017
May 1, 2017
You can read the entire column here:
SOME PEOPLE READ COOKBOOKS OR mystery novels. I read bridal registries. In my consulting gig for Bridge Catalog, an e-commerce platform for the tabletop industry, my role is to train subscribing retailers on how to utilize the platform for better sales. Since wedding registries are the cornerstone of online sales for many independent retailers, I thought I should know what brides are ...
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March 20, 2017
March 20, 2017
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Delta carries more than 180 million passengers a year, but only some 25 million will have occasion to lift one of Alessi’s strategically weighted wine glasses to their lips. Why invest in a fancy new line of serviceware that most of your customers will never use?
Simple: Airlines make more money off the premium cabins than ...
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February 4, 2017
February 4, 2017
Shopify Could Be Called 'Nickle and Dime-ify'
Recently, two business friends told me to check out Shopify. They said they were using it to manage online stores. Since my company Bridge offers e-commerce software to 200+ retailers, I was curious to see how Shopify compared.
I signed up for an account as if I were a retailer.
I thought the sign up process was pretty easy. They didn't even ask me for a password. They automatically gave me one that I could change later.
I then set ...
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January 15, 2017
January 15, 2017
Main Street vs. Wall Street
How a 4-person web design firm united 200 indie stores against a $40m competitor
What if someone said that they're spending $40 million to beat up your small business? That's what new online gift registry retailer Zola plans to do. (Please see attached NY Times picture.) Gift registries are the last refuge of small, Main Street businesses and Zola has borrowed (in the banking world they call it "raised") $40m to swipe this registry business. Zola is backed by the same ...
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January 14, 2017
January 14, 2017
January 5, 2017
January 5, 2017
From the NY Times, Thursday Jan.5, 2017
Start-Ups Hope Couples Say ‘I Do’ to Online Wedding Planning
Read the full story below, or share it. http://nyti.ms/2j4wMxL
Planning a wedding remains a largely traditional pursuit. For many couples, it is a frustrating months long project that requires sifting through masses of details and costs on venues, services and products. Now, a variety of start-ups are trying to cut down on that information overload by harnessing new technologies to capture a slice ...
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January 5, 2017
January 5, 2017
The article also reminds us that Wal-mart closed 100 stores last year and paid $3b for Jet.com.
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December 30, 2016
December 30, 2016
Read the full about Bridge's registry sales record here on HFN's site or below
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Independent Retailers Boost Tabletop Registry Sales with Bridge
Sales far exceed last year's totals
December 30, 2016, Allison Zisko / HFN Magazine
NEW YORK — Bridge, a tabletop e-commerce platform, said its network of independent retailers this week crossed a new threshold for online registry sales to...
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December 25, 2016
December 25, 2016
We had a retailer express that it wants to make more profit online. Honestly, Walmart is losing millions online just to stay in the game. To the retailers that make even just a $1 profit online, be happy that you're not losing millions. Current web outlays are foundations and loses should be expected for some time to ...
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December 20, 2016
December 20, 2016
“Greenery” is Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2017. (It’s also known as Pantone 15-0343.) Did anyone notice it is surprisingly close to the color of the Bridge logo? :) What are the green pieces you are going to see in your store come 2017?
Read the full story about Pantone's color of the year here
Color of 2017
Pantone Picks a Spring Shade
By VANESSA FRIEDMAN DEC. 8, 2016
When the question of what will define 2017 comes up, the response most often includes
words like “Trump” and “populism” and “...
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November 24, 2016
November 24, 2016
Ps - a little news: more people are skipping Black Friday online. That's good news for which Bridge users can be thankful. Bridge is ready to serve more online customers :) View Post
November 9, 2016
November 9, 2016
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November 4, 2016
November 4, 2016
Millennial brides, with their free-spirited tastes, are rewriting the style rules to suit themselves, and the industry is taking note.
Does this behavior play out when choosing china and stemware?
Read the full article from the NY Times here
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September 12, 2016
September 12, 2016
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For Immediate Release
Michael Aram Partners with Bridge Catalog
Luxury giftware designer to join e-commerce platform to help U.S. retailer base
New York, NY- Michael Aram, a designer of premium tableware, lighting, and giftware, has joined a new sales platform to help authorized retailers increase their online sales.
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August 4, 2016
August 4, 2016
Where do Millennials go to shop? Your physical store. This month's HFN confirms that brick and mortar stores are the leading spot to shop. View Post
July 29, 2016
July 29, 2016
July 1, 2016
July 1, 2016
June 15, 2016
June 15, 2016
