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June 14, 2021
June 14, 2021
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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May 18, 2021
May 18, 2021
I am sending the Ivystone sales rep Laura Zanone two $200 checks. Bridge gives sales reps a finder's fee when they sign up a retailer for a Bridge Store. The rep promotes Bridge Store because it helps the store sell more--which is good for the store and the rep.
Laura helped her stores save thousands of dollars and weeks of time. In total, she saved her stores over $6,000 and 10 weeks in labor.
- Laura helped Fletcher Yaerta, a jewelry
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April 29, 2021
April 29, 2021
Mothers and Fathers days are coming up. Did you know that, April 23 was National Picnic Day? There seems to be a National Day for everything. Wanting to be most informed we Googled it and it turns out that there is a day for everything. The only problem with that is there were about 117 submissions for special days per month if you look it up on-line. Ok, other than religious holidays, what is more important than honoring your parents or surrogate parents for the sacrifices ...
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March 4, 2021
March 4, 2021
When a product travels through the Amazon arc, it skips many steps that are important for consumer safety, the lives of working people in the retail industry, and local communities. We realize its smile logo may actually be a visual representation of the safeguards and ...
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March 1, 2021
March 1, 2021
Your Bridge has a new feature: you can choose if you wish to allow customers to order products that are out of stock. In the past, if the item was on your Bridge Store, it was assumed that the item was in stock. This made managing stock simple. On site: in stock. Not on site: out of stock.
This updated stock sharing system is helpful for brands and indie stores because it allows them show and control behavior based upon real-time stock information--a feature that with ...
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February 24, 2021
February 24, 2021
You need someone to add products to your website, then update those products. On ...
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January 25, 2021
January 25, 2021
- Amazon: market capitalization is $1.652 trillion; spends millions on its website each each month.
- Wayfair: market capitalization is $29 billion; spends millions on its website each each month.
- Julianne's: not a publicly traded company; an indie store located in Texas that is powered by Bridge and pays us $0 each month.
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January 22, 2021
January 22, 2021
Bridge has created a new feature that helps sales reps stay up-to-date with wholesale orders. At the end of each day, at 5 pm EST, your Bridge will email you a summary of wholesale orders placed over the Bridge network. The email bundles together orders from different brands and inputs them into one email. If you would like to see an order's details, there is a link to each respective order.
You often do not need to take action on the orders as they were ...
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December 9, 2020
December 9, 2020
- Retail websites are the top target of ADA lawsuits.
- In the last 3 years, ADA lawsuits are up more than 200%.
- Just 20 firms account for almost 90% of the lawsuits.
Bridge runs audits...
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November 18, 2020
November 18, 2020
Something struck me while reading this news: Does Amazon remind you of Covid-19? The similarities:
- Amazons kills many businesses in industries it touches. Pharmacies are now worried
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November 16, 2020
November 16, 2020
How you can save:
- Save Time: Retailers spend weeks each year adding products to their websites. Bridge calculates that a retailer often spends 50 hours to add one thousand products to a website. If they were to add, for example, two thousand products, it would take 100 hours. In today's era, a
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October 19, 2020
October 19, 2020
This new sales channel raises the stakes on the growing battle between The Knot and Zola.
Macy’s, Walmart, and Target would be wise to team up and launch their own gift registry platform—akin to how the TV networks collaborated to ...
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October 12, 2020
October 12, 2020
I know businesses that have been targeted by lawyers seeking to cash in on the ADA law. The defendants, even after they 'fix' their website, often have to settle for thousands of dollars.
The ADA was not written with websites in mind (the law was created in 1990--well before the Internet), and the law doesn't allow businesses a grace period to ...
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September 19, 2020
September 19, 2020
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September 9, 2020
September 9, 2020
Amazon.com has removed 20,000 product reviews after a Financial Times (FT) investigation suggested that some of the site's top U.K. reviewers may have profited from leaving positive ratings, reports Business Insider. The paper's analysis showed nine of Amazon's top 10 U.K. reviewers dished out five-star reviews to products from little-known Chinese brands. The FT found the same products in Facebook groups and forums that offer free products or money in exchange for ratings....
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August 27, 2020
August 27, 2020
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August 17, 2020
August 17, 2020
A retailer recently shared with me that it uses the service MyRegistry.com. I reviewed the retailer's site and how a customer would make a registry purchase via MyRegistry.com. For privacy purposes, I changed the name of the store in the screenshots shown.
Accessing the ...
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July 15, 2020
July 15, 2020
VIETRI AND BRIDGE PARTNER TO HELP INDEPENDENT STORES
Retailers Can Receive $150 For Joining Bridge Network
July 15, 2020
NEW YORK, NY – VIETRI, known as the premium importer of luxury tabletop goods from Italy, has launched a new program to help its independent specialty retailers online and in-store. VIETRI has agreed to offer its authorized retailers a credit of $150 towards future purchases by opening a free account with the e-commerce community ...
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July 14, 2020
July 14, 2020
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July 13, 2020
July 13, 2020
Retailer Not Using Smart Products Service:
- Shows just 96 products (12% of the Juliska line).
- Does not show Juliska logo. &
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