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March 24, 2022 Country Interior, Woven Tissue Box Cover
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Country Interior, Woven Tissue Box Cover
March 24, 2022
Stylishly add great visual texture to your bathroom, living room or office with this handcrafted tissue cover from Calaisio made from organic vines. Its natural warm rustic three-tone finish converts your plain tissue box into a beautiful decorative piece.



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March 22, 2022 Hospitality 🍽
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Hospitality 🍽
March 22, 2022
Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio, a software company valued at $28 billion, was recently interviewed in the Wall St. Journal. When he shared who his advisors are, I was surprised to see Danny Meyer, the restaurant kingpin who owns Shake Shack (another publicly-traded company).  Mr. Lawson read Mr. Meyer’s book “Setting the Table” and was impressed to learn about the difference between service and hospitality. Service is the delivery of the technical aspects of ...
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March 7, 2022 9 Ways Your Bridge Is Different Than Other Online Stores
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9 Ways Your Bridge Is Different Than Other Online Stores
March 7, 2022
There are approximately 40 online e-commerce providers. These software providers help other businesses sell online by offering them the ability to run an online store. These providers include Bridge as well as Shopify, Magento, Big Commerce, BigCartel, Square, and Weebly.  Does Bridge offer a different (better?) experience than these other platforms? We believe the answer is yes. We also think our 960 retail clients agree: 99.7% of our retailers retain our service each month.

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February 18, 2022 Boldly Sophisticated Frames from Beatriz Ball
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Boldly Sophisticated Frames from Beatriz Ball
February 18, 2022
Inspired by wildlife, but at home in the most civilized of interiors, these luxe frames add a touch of glam to any room. Beatriz Ball frames feature textures and motifs that elevate any photo into a work of art.

The three Pieles Croc frames--holding 5x7, 4x6 and 3x3 inch photos--are distinguished by intricate crocodile hide textures glowingly rendered in a silvery sandcast aluminum alloy.

With boldly sophisticated styling, the square FRAME Pieles Croc 3 x 3 makes a glamorous gift for men. ...
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February 15, 2022 Last Place...and Winning 🏁
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Last Place...and Winning 🏁
February 15, 2022
This past weekend on the way to Florida to visit my brothers, I read about Squarespace’s advertising history. (Read the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/13/business/how-did-squarespace-know-podcasts-would-get-this-big.html).  In 2009, Anthony Casalena, the founder of Squarespace, paid $20,000 to advertise on a tech podcast. While that was a lot for a small, young company (Casalena had started his business just six years earlier in a dorm room in 2003), Casalena said the ...
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January 26, 2022 Handmade Bathroom Accessories
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Handmade Bathroom Accessories
January 26, 2022
Give your modern bathroom a warm feeling of coziness with this hand-woven square tissue box cover stylishly featuring a three-color nature tone finish made from natural vines.


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January 17, 2022 Freeing the Sculpture 🗿
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Freeing the Sculpture 🗿
January 17, 2022
George Lois, the famous advertising maven, writes in Damn Good Advice that he doesn’t create an advertising campaign as much as he discovers one. He pulls it out of the air and captures it. He shares that Michelangelo said that a sculpture is imprisoned in a block of marble, and only a great sculpture can free it. 

I view Bridge in a similar way. We’re not creating the software—we’re discovering it. Our methods for operating an online store were bound to...
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January 10, 2022 Windows to the Soul
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Windows to the Soul
January 10, 2022
While I was down in Dallas evangelizing about Bridge, the Dallas Market Center’s software provider and sister company (called MarketTime) invited me to their offices for a meeting. The goal of the meeting was to explore teaming up to help brands and retailers speed products to market, as well as get a leg up on the competition. 

The Dallas Mart consists of two primary buildings, each with atriums and many floors each. I like the Dallas show because of the abundance of ...
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December 30, 2021 Bloomberg: Shopify vs. Amazon
Bloomberg: Shopify vs. Amazon
December 30, 2021
Last February e-commerce company Shopify Inc. replaced the “Ottawa, Canada” dateline that began its press releases and earnings reports with a strange new one: “Internet, Everywhere.” The geographical shift came at the insistence of Shopify’s founder and chief executive officer, Tobi Lütke, who tends to view such matters through the prism of cold, hard logic. In May 2020, only a few months into the pandemic, he’d made the early, seemingly rash decision to...
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December 3, 2021 New Feature: More Quickly Boost Registry Sales
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New Feature: More Quickly Boost Registry Sales
December 3, 2021
Bridge has added a new feature to help you more quickly boost your registry sales. Your Bridge now lets you track the software that registrants use for their event website. For example, a bride may use The Knot. When your store or the bride enters the software provider The Knot, your Bridge will tailor instructions to the registrant to add a link from The Knot leading back to your website. 

Default software provider choices include:
  • Professional Website Developer
  • Squarespace
  • The
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November 15, 2021 Be Inspired: Add Handmade Artistry to Your Fall Table
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Be Inspired: Add Handmade Artistry to Your Fall Table
November 15, 2021
Beatriz Ball is passionate about creating multifunctional pieces that look great, are easy to care for, and that you'll feel good about. Sustainably made, these handsome handcrafted SIERRA MODERN Ripples designs are dishwasher safe.
  • The SIERRA MODERN Ripples Large Charcuterie Tray with Handles (Gunmetal) has a deeply furrowed, rippling surface and crisp detailing. It works beautifully on its own but makes a major statement when grouped with other Ripples items in different finishes. You&
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October 9, 2021 Amazon Watch: Macy's vs Amazon
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Amazon Watch: Macy's vs Amazon
October 9, 2021
Macy's scrambles to keep Amazon off its big red sign in Herald Square

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October 1, 2021 There Is Always Something Organic in My Fall Table Decor!
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There Is Always Something Organic in My Fall Table Decor!
October 1, 2021
It`s time to go shopping for a new addition to your home. Include natural elements like this woven tray to incorporate early fall touches and warm colors into the crisp temperatures. Made from forest vines, its natural cinnamon-brown-yellow fall color make this tray a much-loved interior accent. Available in 18” and 24”.


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September 29, 2021 Autumn Break. Coffee Break.
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Autumn Break. Coffee Break.
September 29, 2021
We're getting in the fall mood with these autumn hues of brick, saffron, and vermilion ambiance. This natural placemat woven from organic vines adds a roast blend of warm fall colors to your favorite coffee moment. Set of 4.


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September 20, 2021 Beatriz Ball’s Trays Embody the Spirit of the West
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Beatriz Ball’s Trays Embody the Spirit of the West
September 20, 2021
A Home where the Buffalo Roam

Emblazoned with an American bison, our WESTERN Buffalo Brooklyn Large Oval Platter brings beauty and function to your table with its generous oval surface, textured by sand-casting and polished by hand to a brilliant finish. Great for serving your favorite foods at gatherings, but equally useful throughout the house. Our SOHO Brooklyn Buffalo Square Medium Platter makes a great companion.

The WESTERN Antler Wreath Medium Platter is another handy serving piece,...
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September 14, 2021 Geometric Home Decor
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Geometric Home Decor
September 14, 2021
This geometric square tray woven from exotic vines is one of the easiest and warmest of natural materials that brings a contemporary geometric spin to your interiors. Available in 18” and 24” square.


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September 9, 2021 Dark Wood Tones We`re Loving for Fall
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Dark Wood Tones We`re Loving for Fall
September 9, 2021
Add an easy way to nail the warm and cozy look to your bathroom with countertop bathroom accessories from Calaisio. This handwoven tissue box made from fern vines stylishly stores your facial tissues, featuring neutral tones swinging from yellowish-browns to reddish black.


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September 6, 2021 Luxury Melamine Serving Pieces and Dinnerware
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Luxury Melamine Serving Pieces and Dinnerware
September 6, 2021
In an effort to inspire others to live elegantly everyday, QSquared designed this collection to boast the appearance of fine porcelain and ceramic.  Just what you need for your next TAILGATE!!
 
 
 
 
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July 9, 2021 New York Times: 8-page spread showing a struggling Main Street in America
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New York Times: 8-page spread showing a struggling Main Street in America
July 9, 2021
The Times ran a massive 8-page section  of Wilkes-Barre, PA’s downtown.  The insert, one continuous piece (4-full pages each side), showed a Main Street in flux. Even with rent averaging $9/square foot, many stores are teetering on survival.  

The only entities that seem to be growing in the area are universities and government agencies.  

Trivia: Planters Peanuts was started here and used to have its office on this strip.   View Post
June 21, 2021 Rustic Details and Colorful Pastel
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Rustic Details and Colorful Pastel
June 21, 2021
Centerpiece ideas, texture mixing, incorporate a rustic tone in your pastel tablescape with Calaisio`s squares. This woven placemat beauty brings a vibrant spin to environmental living and entertaining. Set of 4`s.


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