Home > News & Events

News from Shop Local & Bridge

  1. News from Us
  2. News from Members
  3. Events
  4. Press
  5. Strategy: Dollars & Sense
  6. Profile Stories
  7. New Software Features & Updates
  8. Training Calendar
  9. Training Videos
  10. Jobs
  1. News from Us
  2. News from Members
  3. Events
  4. Press
  5. Dollars & Sense
  6. Profile Stories
  7. Updates
  8. Training Calendar
  9. Training Videos
  10. Jobs
+ Bridge in the News - Bridge in the News

412 Results:

June 4, 2022 Happy National Cheese Day!
Chalk 21749 picture
Happy National Cheese Day!
June 4, 2022
Although there is no conclusive evidence where cheese making originated from, the production of cheese predates the recorded history of man. This predates well over 7,000 years ago, it was possibly developed on accident and lets just say it was one of the best accidents to ever happen! View Post
May 18, 2022 For the Beach House ... And Your House
Chalk 21711 picture
For the Beach House ... And Your House
May 18, 2022
A coastal cutie!

Beatriz Ball's gleaming GIFTABLES Ocean Crab Wine Coaster is topped by a sculptural miniature crab. Ideal gift for the coastal wine lover, and sure to become a beach house favorite.

Designed to hold a wine bottle, the versatile item can also be used for serving nuts or other little nibbles.

Beatriz Ball's GIFTABLES Collection features the best design elements of its bestselling collections in compact sizes, all boxed for effortless gifting. Great gift for guys!
Read More
May 3, 2022 The Prestige
Chalk 21674 picture
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...
Read More
April 27, 2022 Updated Feature: Enter a Purchase for a Registry List
Chalk 21663 picture
Updated Feature: Enter a Purchase for a Registry List
April 27, 2022
Bridge has updated how a store records a purchase for a registry list.  This method uses the best practice for creating a digital copy of an order.  Stores need to add a purchase to a gift list for a variety of reasons, including:
  • A customer purchased a gift in-store.
  • A customer purchased a gift via telephone.
  • A customer purchased online via Bridge, and then called the store to add to the purchase.
  • A customer purchased a gift via another online outlet (
...
Read More
April 25, 2022 Checklists Can Help Save Lives and Main Street ✅
Chalk 21658 picture
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...
Read More
April 5, 2022 Thank you, Bridge Builders 🌉
Chalk 21585 picture
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 ...
Read More
March 23, 2022 Customer Acquisition Costs & Online Strategies
Chalk 21550 picture
Customer Acquisition Costs & Online Strategies
March 23, 2022
An article in today’s Times cites the high cost of acquiring customers, which ranges from $100 to $800.  Excerpt: 

“Estimates of an often-cited retail metric known as customer acquisition costs range from $100 to more than $800 per customer, said Daniel McCarthy, a professor at Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business, who has done extensive research in the field.”

Physical retail is one of the most expensive ways to acquire customers. An online ...
Read More
March 17, 2022 Your Product Pass
Chalk 21538 picture
Your Product Pass
March 17, 2022
Our job at Bridge is fighting for indie stores.  A key indicator of our success is when we give your store more online orders.  An important step in giving you more orders is: giving you more products online.

Good news: you have the Product Pass. This grants your business the power to sync with unlimited Product Syncing brands for free.  This is the best way to fill your website with products.

Benefits:
  • The Pass allows you to sync with unlimited brands.
...
Read More
January 17, 2022 Freeing the Sculpture 🗿
Chalk 22252 picture
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...
Read More
December 29, 2021 The Best Time for New Beginnings
Chalk 21346 picture
The Best Time for New Beginnings
December 29, 2021
Hope you had a wonderful weekend and that you continue to celebrate the holiday season with family and friends with the best artisan bread in town. Show your treats to the fullest as evidenced by these loaves served in this handmade basket made from organic natural vines. We are grateful to the artisans who share their artistry with us. Happy New Year!


CALAISIO
natural elegance, extraordinary durability View Post
December 26, 2021 Happy Holidays 🌲⛄️✨
Chalk 21342 picture
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
December 20, 2021 Christmas Casserole Dish
Christmas Casserole Dish
December 20, 2021
Presentation is everything. The best complement to a special meal is a Pyrex baking dish with a beautiful handcrafted heat resistant tray. Can't wait to prepare a family-favorite in this rustic bakeware trend! Basket includes 2Qt rectangular Pyrex dish. Also available in 3QT & 4Qt. Merry Christmas!


CALAISIO
natural elegance, extraordinary durability
  View Post
December 14, 2021 Christmas Casserole Dish
Chalk 21297 picture
Christmas Casserole Dish
December 14, 2021
Presentation is everything. The best complement to a special meal is a Pyrex baking dish with a beautiful handcrafted heat resistant tray. Can't wait to prepare a family-favorite in this rustic bakeware trend. Includes 2Qt rectangular Pyrex dish. Available 3QT & 4Qt. Merry Christmas!


CALAISIO
natural elegance, extraordinary durability
  View Post
December 14, 2021 Christmas Casserole Dish
Christmas Casserole Dish
December 14, 2021
Presentation is everything. The best complement to a special meal is a Pyrex baking dish with a beautiful handcrafted heat resistant tray. Can't wait to prepare a family-favorite in this rustic bakeware trend! Basket includes 2Qt rectangular Pyrex dish. Also available in 3QT & 4Qt. Merry Christmas!



CALAISIO
natural elegance, extraordinary durability View Post
December 8, 2021 The Best Casserole Dish to Serve Your Holiday Food in Style
Chalk 21278 picture
The Best Casserole Dish to Serve Your Holiday Food in Style
December 8, 2021
Before you start planning your recipes, you need to make sure you have one of the best casserole dishes. This French porcelain dish by Pillivuyt offers superior practicality in the oven and makes serving in this heat resistant woven basket equally handy and pretty for the holiday dinnerware setting. Basket tray includes Pillivuyt baker. Available in 1QT, 2QT & 3QTS. Happy Holidays!



CALAISIO
Natural elegance, extraordinary durability
  View Post
December 7, 2021 We choose to be colorful.
Chalk 21276 picture
We choose to be colorful.
December 7, 2021
At Mottahedeh, we choose to be colorful. That is for dinnerware or decorative objects for your home.
The historical story is important to us, because it represents the best of a culture of the past. For our reproductions and adaptations of designs, we try to understand the perspective of someone in those times and be true to their idea. For instance, if we are making an adaptation of a dinner plate from the 1750’s we would not take one motif that is repeated six times around the plate and...
Read More
December 4, 2021 AmEx: Shop Small Stats—On a Clever Receipt
Chalk 21267 picture
AmEx: Shop Small Stats—On a Clever Receipt
December 4, 2021
This cool graphic of a receipt shows the impact of shopping small. AmEx’s shop small campaign, which overlaps with the shop local movement, encourages customers to shop at local, mom-and-pop businesses.  Shopping at indie businesses allows customers to get items quickly and discover new finds.  

We support the shop local movement and the AmEx shop small campaign. Bridge helps this movement by filling the websites of America’s best indie shops with thousands of products, ...
Read More
November 5, 2021 Complete Your Table with Beatriz Ball’s Bestselling Ice Bucket
Chalk 21188 picture
Complete Your Table with Beatriz Ball’s Bestselling Ice Bucket
November 5, 2021
Gathering together is not just fun ... it matters.

We all love that special feeling we get when we sit down together at a pretty table looking forward to enjoying wonderful food, drinks, and great company—all made special with the addition of great-looking serverware.

Whether by the grill, around the kitchen island, or for those special occasions and holidays when we create memories that will last forever; spending time with those we love is what we treasure most.

An ice bucket is...
Read More
October 21, 2021 Juliska Floral Sketch At Glassworks!
Chalk 21154 picture
Juliska Floral Sketch At Glassworks!
October 21, 2021
Mother Nature is the best inspiration of all, and the Floral Sketch collection consists of delicate drawings of Jasmine, Camellia, Wisteria, and Cherry Blossoms. This marriage between Juliska's subtle thread and berries motif and the artistic depictions of flowers makes for mix n’ match fun.
See the pattern at Glassworks in Shadyside.

Click here to shop for Juliska Floral Sketch on this website.
Read More
October 20, 2021 Couzon Updates
Couzon Updates
October 20, 2021

Dear DeVine Corp. Customers,

As you may already know, production of stainless steel flatware has perhaps been the most impacted business in tableware during the Covid crisis. This is where we stand with Couzon: our factory that produces the "U.S. only" patterns of Le Perle, Lyrique and Consul was closed for most of the summer due to Covid issues. They are just now getting back up and running and slowly at best. Orders that we placed over the summer we will not see until May of ...
Read More

Next page

Press: Shop Local & Bridge in the News
Tableware Today Column: Saying I Do To Registries
Tableware Today Column: Saying I Do To Registries
October 2024

Tableware Today: New Leaderboard Column from Shop Local
Tableware Today: New Leaderboard Column from Shop Local
August 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Florida Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Florida Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
April 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Tennessee Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Tennessee Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
April 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Louisiana Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Louisiana Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
April 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Delaware Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Delaware Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
April 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Pennsylvania Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants in Pennsylvania Get Google Sales Leads 🔍
March 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants Get Sales Leads in Mississippi
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants Get Sales Leads in Mississippi
March 2024

Shop Local Merchants Are 60% of Google Page 1 Results in South Carolina
Shop Local Merchants Are 60% of Google Page 1 Results in South Carolina
March 2024

Shop Local Merchants Are 50% of Google Page 1 Results in Georgia
Shop Local Merchants Are 50% of Google Page 1 Results in Georgia
March 2024

Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants Get More Sales Leads than Big-Box Stores Using Google
Shop Local Helps Indie Merchants Get More Sales Leads than Big-Box Stores Using Google
February 2024

Shop Local Retailers Rank on Page 1 of Google in 60% of States
Shop Local Retailers Rank on Page 1 of Google in 60% of States
February 2024

...