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March 22, 2022 Azores Greige Shimmer… Spring is Here 🌼
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Azores Greige Shimmer… Spring is Here 🌼
March 22, 2022
Spring is all about getting a fresh start. Wishing you a bright, warm, and beautiful season filled with lots of sunshine, friends and family gathered round a softly layered spring table. Happy Spring! 🌼 #skyrosdesigns View Post
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 16, 2022 New Feature: Share the Date You Started Your Business
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New Feature: Share the Date You Started Your Business
March 16, 2022
Your Bridge has a new feature: you can now easily output the date your business was founded. This date will appear on your home page in the Contact Card. 

In the example, we can see that the Bridge client, Shulan's, was founded in 1921. Great job, Shulan's!

How to add your date founded:
  1. Please visit your Bridge account.
  2. Please log in.
  3. Please click on "Management" at the top of your account.
  4. On the Management page, under "My Business Profile," please click
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March 15, 2022 Walmart+, Disney+ ...Bridge+?
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Walmart+, Disney+ ...Bridge+?
March 15, 2022
Businesses like Walmart, Disney, and Discovery are bundling services and adding the “+” suffix to denote them (e.g.  Disney+, Discovery+, W+, etc.). In a recent article in RetailDive, we learn that Walmart is giving its customers free, six-month trial Spotify accounts. I think W+ bundling services is smart.  Last week, I compared running a gym to offering software. I spoke about bundling services with things that people like to increase their usage, such as work ...
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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.

How can we ...
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March 6, 2022 Our Digital Gym 🏋️‍♀️
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Our Digital Gym 🏋️‍♀️
March 6, 2022
In a recent NY Times article about working out, the author Christie Aschwanden gives readers tips on how to make working out more enjoyable. (Read the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/well/move/habits-motivation-exercise.html). In reading this, I saw many parallels between working out and helping our stores get their websites ‘in shape.’ The author encourages readers to not think of working out as exercise and instead think of it as "hanging out with friends...
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March 4, 2022 DeVine Corporation Notice
DeVine Corporation Notice
March 4, 2022
Dear Customers,

We are finishing our transition to our new Netsuite system starting today and through most of next week. We will likely not resume shipping until next Thursday or Friday. Thank you for your patience during the transition.

Sincerely,
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February 24, 2022 Hackers targeting indie shops
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Hackers targeting indie shops
February 24, 2022
Yesterday I spoke with an independent jewelry store that was targeted by cybercriminals. The criminals created a ransomware attack and held the store’s computer data hostage. The store had to scramble to find backup data and reopen.  The store called the FBI and didn’t pay.  The hackers then sent phishing emails to all the store’s customers—attacking the store’s customers and trying to infect them.  

Today’s WSJ shares that retail and ...
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February 22, 2022 "No Ragrets"
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"No Ragrets"
February 22, 2022
In the movie 'We’re the Millers,' a character played by Jason Sudeikis interviews a teen boy wooing Sudeikis’ teenage daughter. Sudeikis interviews the boy about his interests and compatibility with his daughter. (Watch the scene here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjkLKKgOMRY .) The boy’s neck tattoo reads “No Ragrets.” When Sudeikis inquires about this tattoo, the boy confidently claims that he has no regrets, to which Sudeikis asks, "Not even&...
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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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February 9, 2022 What's In a Brand Name™️?
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What's In a Brand Name™️?
February 9, 2022
I recently saw an advertisement for Windows 11 in Wired magazine. I thought: “Wow, finally something  from Microsoft that someone can understand: a logical name for their software offering.” I recall a time when Microsoft had a confusing litany of software names including: NT, 98, 2000, Millennium (ME), Windows XP, and Vista--before finally relegating those clumsy names to the desktop recycle bin and adopting a simple, progressive number system.  Apple has been naming its ...
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February 8, 2022 Let's Make E-Commerce Fun
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Let's Make E-Commerce Fun
February 8, 2022
Most e-commerce platforms isolate you and leave you adrift. Bridge connects you with your business friends.

Bridge's unique features:
  • Built-in Social Network: Friend your business friends on Bridge. This allows you to share news and files, message each other, support accomplishments with one another, and share your passions. 
  • Product Syncing Between Retailers and Brands:  Save $1,000 and 50 hours on every 1,000 products you add to your store by using Bridge's
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January 26, 2022 Is Amazon's 'Viral' Growth Due to Mobile Phones?
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Is Amazon's 'Viral' Growth Due to Mobile Phones?
January 26, 2022
Scott Galloway, a business leader and NYU professor, shares that we're now spending over 4 hours a day on our mobile phones--up from just 20 minutes in 2010. (…I wrote part of this post on my iPhone.) What does this mean? Lots of opportunities for Amazon--as well as Facebook, Instagram, and other tech titans--to sell to us. Our cell phones are, in essence, 1,000 'buy buttons' in our pockets (or on our nightstands) that encourage us to buy stuff online, any time of the day. 

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January 23, 2022 Jason Gets Put Under the Microscope 🔬
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Jason Gets Put Under the Microscope 🔬
January 23, 2022
Jim Collins, in his book BE 2.0, explains how purpose and mission are important to companies. To help explain this, he uses the metaphor of crossing a mountain range and seeing a star on the horizon. Your purpose is to reach the spot on the horizon below the star. The current mission is climbing up the mountain you’re on. The next mission is climbing up the next mountain and so forth in order to get closer to the spot on the horizon. You will have many missions, and may never ...
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January 16, 2022 A New Vow for Brides: I Swear To Love Platforms That Support Communities
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A New Vow for Brides: I Swear To Love Platforms That Support Communities
January 16, 2022
Today’s Times shares that Amazon Prime members often spend twice as much compared to those that aren’t members. This led to me ponder: What if a first step to reducing Amazon’s monopolies is just canceling a $119/year ‘membership’? Prime may be Amazon’s strength—as well as its achilles. If we can find a way to undermine it, I believe one can save money and our communities. 

A recent study shared that Amazon is now the leading provider of ...
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January 11, 2022 Atlanta Market
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Atlanta Market
January 11, 2022
If you are heading to the Atlanta Market come and see us in High Design section in Building 2, Floor 1, booth # 403. The temporaries start tomorrow (Wednesday) and go till Sunday. Lots of beautiful stuff 🤗 Come and see us 😊

#atlantamarket #atlantashow #atlantatradeshow #americasmart #americasmartatl #americasmartatlanta #newproducts #madeinitaly #highdesign #highdesignexpo #kisstongs #funproducts #kitchendecor #tabledecor #tabledecoration #flatware #bugattilifestyle #bugattihome #...
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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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January 4, 2022 Create Meaningful Moments
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Create Meaningful Moments
January 4, 2022
It is our pleasure to create this woven chic centerpiece bread basket which is best for your event or breakfast nook welcoming the new year with delicious treats, coffee and your favorite artisan bread. A cozy way to spend time with your loved ones to start the day. Available in 2 sizes.


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natural elegace, extraordinary durability
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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 26, 2021 Happy Holidays 🌲⛄️✨
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Happy Holidays 🌲⛄️✨
December 26, 2021
We are glad that Bugatti starts with the Bridge Catalog at such a great time like the Holidays. We hope you all are having the best time with your loved ones 🌲☃️✨🎁 View Post

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