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June 30, 2022 Showtime 🎪
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Showtime 🎪
June 30, 2022
The next book our Bridge team may read is John List’s book The Voltage Effect.  List, who is a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago, shares a variety of suggestions to grow a business. He warns us about false positives, such as what the “Just Say No” drug campaign experienced. He suggests we look for businesses with scalable ingredients. (People are not scalable, but good news for Bridge: software is!)

I'd add to List's advice this simple maxim: show ...
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June 15, 2022 Building the Horizon 🌄
Building the Horizon 🌄
June 15, 2022
The Brick report helps our company track our past and current progress. Our team can easily look back at the last 78 weeks and know what we did. (Most companies would be hard pressed to do this easily.) The Brick brings us together and keeps us on the same (web)page.  Its success leads to me ask: “Could we have an approach that helps us look at our future?" I’ve sometimes thought about crafting a weekly 'Horizon Report' that would share what’s next for us.  

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June 3, 2022 SIP & SAVOR 🍹
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SIP & SAVOR 🍹
June 3, 2022
Our Flower Market Galvanized Beverage Bucket and Flower Market Galvanized Herb Pots with Tray - Set of 3 are perfect for summer entertaining. 💐🏁
What is your favorite MC product to break out once the summer gatherings start? 👀 View Post
May 30, 2022 Jerry Chazen, Who Helped Create Store-within-a-store Concept, Passes
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Jerry Chazen, Who Helped Create Store-within-a-store Concept, Passes
May 30, 2022
When I explain Bridge's Product Syncing service, I sometimes compare the service to the store-within-a-store concept at the mall.  I didn't know that Jerry Chazen, who helped found Liz Claiborne, pioneered that concept in the 1980s. Thank you, Jerry.

Mr. Chazen passed in February 2022. Read the obituary for Mr. Chazen here:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/liz-claiborne-co-founder-helped-create-a-fashion-star-11644505274

 
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May 30, 2022 Happy Memorial Day!!
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Happy Memorial Day!!
May 30, 2022
In just a few short weeks, final school bells will ring, nights will be warmer, days will be longer, and—with any luck—work hours will be shorter. Sun-soaked good times are right around the corner, and there’s no better way to mark the changing of seasons than to celebrate over Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of summer. Happy Memorial Day! View Post
May 27, 2022 Fire Pit Season and Backyard Entertaining
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Fire Pit Season and Backyard Entertaining
May 27, 2022
Weekend plans include: a fireside escape, garnished s'mores, and friendly faces. 🔥🍫🍻
The star of the hour, our Check It Out Planter , helps transform your backyard garden into a space perfect for entertaining. 🏁✨ View Post
May 22, 2022 Businesses Should Want a Membership—Not a Subscription. Why?
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Businesses Should Want a Membership—Not a Subscription. Why?
May 22, 2022
When talking about memberships and subscriptions, these two business models are sometimes interchanged but actually are different. They often differ in their pricing, customers, and offerings.  A subscription is often not a membership, but a membership often encompasses a subscription.  A membership is often an elevated and more powerful subscription that collectivizes and leverages the subscribers.

What They Have In Common
With both models, you often pay a fee and receive a ...
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May 20, 2022 Revive Your Hive ✨
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Revive Your Hive ✨
May 20, 2022
Revive your hive with our bee-inspired garden products. 🐝👑 
Here are some of our favorites to start creating your own backyard oasis.😍 View Post
May 17, 2022 Connection 👫
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Connection 👫
May 17, 2022
In the past, we’ve used spin classes and gyms as inspiration for Bridge. We see them as metaphors for helping retail business owners.  The founders of SoulCycle, Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice, must have been eavesdropping on us: they are expanding their spinning approach to another sphere. The Times reports they have started Peoplehood, a business that seeks to help people via self-help (group-help?) sessions. It’s SoulCycle for the soul&...
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May 5, 2022 New Feature: Use Checklists to Grow Your Registry Sales
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New Feature: Use Checklists to Grow Your Registry Sales
May 5, 2022
Bridge has added a new feature to your store's wedding registry service. We have added checklists to each registry.
These checklists will help your store:
  • Save time.
  • Sell more gifts.
  • Make customers happier.

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Bridge has given each of your wedding registries two checklists:
  • Your store receives an internal, private checklist for each registry. The registrant can’t access this. 
  • The registrant receives their own checklist. You can also
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May 3, 2022 The Prestige
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The Prestige
May 3, 2022
While eating a slice of coal-fired pizza at Arturo’s in Soho yesterday, and getting an occasional whiff of Houston Street garbage, I had to admit: I was at a loss for insight to share with my coworkers this week.  Each week, I send out a motivational message to my team that precedes a summary of what they accomplished. We call this report the Brick report. This would be my seventy-second Brick introduction: What else could I say--and would they miss it if there was not an introduction...
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April 25, 2022 Checklists Can Help Save Lives and Main Street ✅
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Checklists Can Help Save Lives and Main Street ✅
April 25, 2022
In a 2007 article in The New Yorker, Atul Gawande, a surgeon and an author, advocated that more hospitals use checklists. He cited many medical studies showing how checklists save lives (and money).  Implementing one checklist, a hospital "…prevented forty-three infections and eight deaths, and saved two million dollars in costs."  The startling part: the list was only five steps long! In other words, people don’t consistently follow...
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April 22, 2022 Oven to Table Bakeware
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Oven to Table Bakeware
April 22, 2022
Meatballs are a hearty, comforting food deserving a starring role at your dinner table. It`s a delicious casserole treat served in this Pyrex dish with Calaisio`s serving basket. This woven basket made of organic vines is durable enough to withstand a hot bakeware and easy to clean with a soft brush to keep the vines looking its best. A mild dish soap and water solution comes in handy for removing grease. The woven tray includes 1Qt Pyrex dish, 8” x 8”. 


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April 15, 2022 Seasonal Entertaining
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Seasonal Entertaining
April 15, 2022
Prepare great Friday meals through Easter the whole family will love. Add a Good Friday vegetable or fruit salad for a healthy start served in this woven basket with a glass bowl insert. Handcrafted from organic vines, its natural rustic look adds an earthy edge to your table setting. Includes 2QT glass bowl. Also available in 4QT.



CALAISIO
natural elegance, extraordinary durability
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April 14, 2022 Happy Passover & Happy Easter From Glassworks and Cheeks!
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Happy Passover & Happy Easter From Glassworks and Cheeks!
April 14, 2022
Passover starts Friday and Easter is Sunday: Glassworks is here for your last minute Holiday needs. Pictured are Michael Aram items for both celebrations. Glassworks in Shadyside also has other decor and serving items for the holidays. Stop in!

Click here to shop for Michael Aram on this website.

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April 12, 2022 Moat-us Operandi 🏰
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Moat-us Operandi 🏰
April 12, 2022
When I flew home yesterday from Charleston, while most people were seeking relief from their sunburns and reminiscing about their vacations, I was delving into The Wall St. Journal’s profile on Tracy Britt Cool, an ex- Berkshire Hathaway star.  Mrs. Cool’s new company Kanbrick invests in businesses with $10m - $50m in revenue.  What does Mrs. Cool look for when investing in a company? People and moats. 

At Bridge, we’re reading Jim Collins’ Beyond ...
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April 12, 2022 Introduce fine art into your everyday décor
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Introduce fine art into your everyday décor
April 12, 2022
The GLASS New Orleans Swirl Collection is a perfect starting point!

Each piece is a unique work of art with swirling blue and white surface that are beautifully soothing, and blend nicely with many of today's top design trends. Light will show off their jewel-tone hues, textures and translucence.

Combine New Orleans Swirl pieces for an artistic and practical set that is food and dishwasher safe.  View Post
April 5, 2022 Thank you, Bridge Builders 🌉
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Thank you, Bridge Builders 🌉
April 5, 2022
At the Bridge ‘office’ (which stretches from Seattle to Brooklyn), we’re currently reading Jim Collin’s book Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0. We’re reading the book together because it helps us learn insights into working together and running the best company we can. On page 275, Mr. Collins shares an anecdote about a group of workers at an airplane manufacturing facility during World War II. The workers found inspiration from meeting the crew that flew the planes they ...
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March 30, 2022 Cheers to You!
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Cheers to You!
March 30, 2022
Welcome to our new registry page! We are so excited to celebrate with you the next chapter of your life! Please either stop in for a consultation on starting a registry or shop on our site. We are happy to help! View Post
March 28, 2022 Globalization's Effects on Hiring and Shopping Local 🖼
Globalization's Effects on Hiring and Shopping Local 🖼
March 28, 2022
Some people like to sit on the sofa and eat Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. I roll my eyes at this because I’m very different: I like to read the Wall St. Journal’s Christopher Mims …while eating an entire pint of Ben & Jerry’s on the sofa. This past weekend, Mr. Mims suggested companies may be reassessing where they source products, some even considering more domestic production. The motivation for this started a few years ago with the U.S.-China trade war, ...
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