I was happy to receive the new December/January 2025 issue of Tableware Today in the mail. In my Leaderboard column, I explain the importance of wedding registries to indie stores. I also share the top performing wedding registry retailers, brands, and products from September 2024.
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Saying I Do To Registries
Our e-commerce platform helps 1,500 indie stores sell $22 million a year. Perhaps surprising is that more than 90% of these orders are wedding ...
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This article, which will appear in the December/January 2025 issue of Tableware Today, explains the importance of wedding registries to indie stores.
Our e-commerce platform helps 1,500 indie stores sell $22 million a year. Perhaps surprising is that more than 90% of these orders are wedding registry gifts. Our stores offer tens of thousands of goods for sale online, with the lion’s share being wedding gifts. Why are wedding registry sales 90% of online sales while non-gift orders ...
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"Website was easy to navigate – item photos and descriptions made selecting a gift so easy..."
~ Betsey Moylan in PA
Top-3 Retail Movers
๐ฅ Dalton Brody in Washington, DC / +902%
๐ฅ Barbara Stewart Interiors in Bowling Green, KY / +511%
๐ฅ The Kitchen Table in Hattiesburg, MS / +394%
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Top-3 Retail Movers
๐ฅ The League Shop in Grosse Pointe, MI / +2,259%
๐ฅ Camargo in Cincinnati, OH / +2,066%+
๐ฅ The Kitchenary in Lafayette, LA / +1,007%
Before May 31, 2023, send an email to your retailers inviting them to join you on Shop Local's e-commerce platform. We’ve written for you a sample email template you can send to them. Please find that template below. You can copy this template and send it using your email program (Outlook, MailChimp, etc.).
When you send your email, please BCC [email protected] or forward it after you send it.
142 of our retailers are using a sales program called Bridge. A store uses Bridge to more easily sell our products. I think Bridge would be a good fit for your business, too. I’m writing to invite you to join us on Bridge.
Bonus: Join us on Bridge by next Friday, May 6th, and Skyros Designs will give you a $200 shopping credit with us.
Retailers that use Bridge report selling 18% more. In fact, our best ...
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Business leader Scott Galloway said this past week on his podcast Pivot that "complexity is a tax on the poor." I'd expand on that and posit that: complexity is a tax on indie businesses.
What if indie businesses could reduce the complexity and costs of running an online business? I believe we can. Bridge is reducing the costs of running an online business for more than a thousand businesses.
How do we reduce the 'tax'? Bridge often helps a retailer set up an online store ...
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We offer a universal domain service (UDS) to retailers, brands, and sales reps. What does this service do? The universal domain service elevates your business' brand and may increase your Google ranking. Specifically, the service hides ("masks") the 'bridgecatalog' part of the website URL.
In the example shown, we Google two stores' names in Texas. The two stores both use Bridge Store to power their online business. The Ivy House does not use the universal domain service...
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Online selection is very important. This leads one to ask: from how many dining and entertaining brands can your customers shop? How many bedding brands?
Your Bridge now quickly tells you and your customers this information. Please:
Visit your Designers page.
Look to the right of the department name. You will see a dynamic brand count. e.g. "Decorating & Accessories: 44 Brands"
At the top of the page, your Bridge displays the total numbers of brands ...
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More than 100+ indie stores are synced with Vietri on Bridge. Why? Join us and find out. Vietri and Bridge will be hosting two informational webinars.
Please pick your time: Monday, May 7th at 1 pm EST or Tuesday, May 8th at 10 am EST
Please RSVP and we'll send you an access link.
Background Customers are flocking online--but many stores donโt have websites that are ready for these customers. We have a solution for these stores. Bridge ...
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March 16, 2018
March 16, 2018
For Immediate Release
Juliska Partners with Bridge Catalog Leading tabletop brand to join e-commerce platform to help U.S. retailer base
New York, NY- Juliska, a designer of premium tableware and home dรฉcor, has joined an online sales platform to help its authorized retailers increase their sales.
Beginning May 1st, 2018, the New York-based company will use Bridge, an e-commerce platform, to display more of its products via its retailersโ websites and gift registries.
Michael Aram's products will be ready in Bridge by September 20th. Below please find our press release on this new Smart Brand partnership:
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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.