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Remember In-store, Branded Displays? We've Made Them Digital
For decades, brands have paid retailers to set up a display in the retailers' stores. Ralph Lauren's Polo, Nautica, Jimmy Choo, and other leading brands have paid department stores to set up displays and manage their brand appearance. This helps the brand and the stores increase sales.
As we all know, retail has gone digital. Thirty percent of retail sales are now online. What if there was a way for brands to sponsor displays like these physical ones but do so online? ...
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March 24, 2021
As we all know, retail has gone digital. Thirty percent of retail sales are now online. What if there was a way for brands to sponsor displays like these physical ones but do so online? ...
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March 8
New Smart Brand Member: Fissler
New Smart Brand Member: Fissler
New Smart Brand Member: Fissler
We’re happy to announce that Fissler is joining Bridge and the Smart Products program.
Fissler is renowned for its award-winning cookware, Made in Germany. Fissler is the perfect culinary equipment for cooks who value uncompromising quality, attractive design, and superior functionality. The line includes premium-quality stainless steel cookware collections — pure-profi® and original-profi®, superior non-stick pans — levital® and adamant®, plus vitavit&...
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March 8, 2021
Fissler is renowned for its award-winning cookware, Made in Germany. Fissler is the perfect culinary equipment for cooks who value uncompromising quality, attractive design, and superior functionality. The line includes premium-quality stainless steel cookware collections — pure-profi® and original-profi®, superior non-stick pans — levital® and adamant®, plus vitavit&...
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Which Would You Choose: 50 Hours or 4 Minutes?
An indie store often spends $750 and 50 hours to add 1,000 products to its website. Amazon likes this because it slows down the competition.
Bridge reduces the time to under 4 minutes and the cost to zero (...that’s right: free). It’s time you tried Bridge.
Learn more about saving time and money with Bridge:
https://www.bridgecatalog.com/smart-products.cfm
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March 2, 2021
Bridge reduces the time to under 4 minutes and the cost to zero (...that’s right: free). It’s time you tried Bridge.
Learn more about saving time and money with Bridge:
https://www.bridgecatalog.com/smart-products.cfm
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New Feature: Control Backorders and Sharing Stock
FOR RETAILERS
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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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 28
How Much Does Updating a Website Cost?
How Much Does Updating a Website Cost?
How Much Does Updating a Website Cost?
When you run an online store, a major cost is adding and updating products. Adding 1,000 products to your website often costs about $750 and requires 50 hours. What if there was a cheaper, quicker way? And what if you could offer better product data at the same time? There is: Smart Products.
The Smart Products service outputs in your Bridge Store all the products from a brand that you sell, with professional pictures, accurate prices, and product dimensions. This service is...
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February 28, 2021
The Smart Products service outputs in your Bridge Store all the products from a brand that you sell, with professional pictures, accurate prices, and product dimensions. This service is...
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February 26
Facts Are Fuel
Facts Are Fuel
Facts Are Fuel
In a world with so many options, how do we as consumers make intelligent choices? We are overstimulated with resources daily, and sometimes this can be overwhelming. Common sense seems to be the driving factor when assessing the alternatives before us, as may be the process of elimination when there is too much to consider. But what is the most influential deciding factor we face? It could be facts that serve as the strongest fuel to drive us to make an informed decision.
As our leader, Jason...
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February 26, 2021
As our leader, Jason...
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February 24
Amazon and Shopify Have a Baby: Bridge?
Amazon and Shopify Have a Baby: Bridge?
Amazon and Shopify Have a Baby: Bridge?
Clients choose Bridge because we bring together many of the benefits of selling on Amazon or using Shopify.
To understand this, it helps to first view the e-commerce provider spectrum. Marketplace sites are on the left, and solo sites are on the right. In the marketplace model, the store's logo (the seller's logo) is often nowhere to be seen. The seller is like a cog in the machine working for 'da man (aka Jeff Bezos). On the other end, there is the solo website for ...
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February 24, 2021
To understand this, it helps to first view the e-commerce provider spectrum. Marketplace sites are on the left, and solo sites are on the right. In the marketplace model, the store's logo (the seller's logo) is often nowhere to be seen. The seller is like a cog in the machine working for 'da man (aka Jeff Bezos). On the other end, there is the solo website for ...
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February 24
Save $4,782 on Website Maintenance?
Save $4,782 on Website Maintenance?
Save $4,782 on Website Maintenance?
What if there was a way to cut your labor costs and boost your sales? There is. Your employees work the cash register, stock shelves, clean, and provide customer service. They also: update your website. As you know, these days customers expect a website to offer tens of thousands of products. Amazon has hundreds of millions of products. You have to add products to your site to survive.
You need someone to add products to your website, then update those products. On ...
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February 24, 2021
You need someone to add products to your website, then update those products. On ...
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February 5
How Netflix And Bridge Deliver Value
How Netflix And Bridge Deliver Value
How Netflix And Bridge Deliver Value
How much does Bridge cost vs other marketing tools? Let's imagine a printed catalog costs $10 to print and send to a customer. The customer uses it for 10 minutes. It therefore costs $1 per minute.
The Bridge Smart Products service costs a brand $9 per year per retailer. Over that year, a retailer interacts with that Smart Product data for 104 minutes. This number is approximately 2 minutes per week. (Please note: some retailers view Smart Product data at a much higher rate, such ...
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February 5, 2021
The Bridge Smart Products service costs a brand $9 per year per retailer. Over that year, a retailer interacts with that Smart Product data for 104 minutes. This number is approximately 2 minutes per week. (Please note: some retailers view Smart Product data at a much higher rate, such ...
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Amazon Wants 'One Channel,' But Businesses Want Multi-Channel
Reports suggest that 50% of purchases start on Amazon.com, and Amazon wants to keep it this way. Yet, businesses and merchants increasingly want to sell their products via their own DTC (direct to consumer) site, retailers' websites, Facebook, Instagram, and more. Due to this, Shopify, which powers many DTC and retailer websites, is a growing thorn in Amazon's dominance of retail. Shopify reportedly helps power more than 30% of online U.S. retail sales.
To remove this thorn, ...
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February 1, 2021
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January 25
Indies Stand Up to Amazon
Indies Stand Up to Amazon
Indies Stand Up to Amazon
When looking at this gift registry on theknot.com, we can see that the bride registered at three stores:
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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 6
Updated Feature: Your Join Bridge Page Now Shows Cost Savings Benefits Tailored to Your Brand(s)
Updated Feature: Your Join Bridge Page Now Shows Cost Savings Benefits Tailored to Your Brand(s)
Updated Feature: Your Join Bridge Page Now Shows Cost Savings Benefits Tailored to Your Brand(s)
FOR BRANDS, DISTRIBUTORS, AND SALES REPS
We have updated your 'Join Us On Bridge' page. The page now outputs how much time and money a store will save by joining you on Bridge.
In the example shown, we see Juliska's Join Bridge page. The page shares that a store would normally spend $518 to add Juliska's products to its website and pay $130 over the course of a year to maintain those products. Using Bridge and the Smart Products service, the store can save this money completely: syncing ...
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January 6, 2021
We have updated your 'Join Us On Bridge' page. The page now outputs how much time and money a store will save by joining you on Bridge.
In the example shown, we see Juliska's Join Bridge page. The page shares that a store would normally spend $518 to add Juliska's products to its website and pay $130 over the course of a year to maintain those products. Using Bridge and the Smart Products service, the store can save this money completely: syncing ...
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December 21, 2020
Capucine De Wulf Jewelry Joins Bridge
Capucine De Wulf Jewelry Joins Bridge
Capucine De Wulf Jewelry Joins Bridge
We’re happy to announce that Capucine De Wulf Jewelry, from the creator of Juliska, is joining Bridge and the Smart Products program.
Capucine De Wulf creates jewelry that makes a woman feel and look fabulous through symbolic designs laden with meaning in marvelous materials at accessible price points.
Capucine De Wulf Jewelry and its 101 products are ready for syncing.
View the Capucine De Wulf Bridge offering here:
https://juliska.bridgecatalog.com/collections.cfm/...
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December 21, 2020
Capucine De Wulf creates jewelry that makes a woman feel and look fabulous through symbolic designs laden with meaning in marvelous materials at accessible price points.
Capucine De Wulf Jewelry and its 101 products are ready for syncing.
View the Capucine De Wulf Bridge offering here:
https://juliska.bridgecatalog.com/collections.cfm/...
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December 6, 2020
NYT: Shopify vs Amazon
NYT: Shopify vs Amazon
NYT: Shopify vs Amazon
Yiren Lu shares her experience of setting up a Shopify store in the New York Times magazine. Ms. Lu reports the setup process was easy, but her online Shopify store failed because it lacked marketing, aka eyeballs and orders. In her next article, I hope Ms. Lu tries Bridge. Bridge Store helps members fill the marketing component that Shopify is missing. When a store joins Bridge, Bridge instantly points hundreds of links to the store from other Bridge members, which Google sees and ...
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December 6, 2020
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November 16, 2020
Adding products to a website: How long does it take and cost?
Adding products to a website: How long does it take and cost?
Adding products to a website: How long does it take and cost?
How can you more quickly add products to your website? We have a solution. Bridge's Smart Products can help retailers add thousands of products in minutes at no cost. Brands pay for the service.
How you can save:
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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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Smart Products Service Breaks From the Old Habit of Breaking Up a Website
This drawing shows how the Smart Products service speeds products to a retailer’s website. A brand traditionally has to 'break' its website contents down into pieces (product data and images), and then share this with the store piecemeal via Dropbox or another file-sharing service. Bridge's service helps brands and stores skip these time-consuming and expensive steps.
In the example shown, the retailer Cook's Station wishes to add Joseph Joseph products to its website. Without ...
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November 5, 2020
In the example shown, the retailer Cook's Station wishes to add Joseph Joseph products to its website. Without ...
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September 26, 2020
New Yorker Magazine Cover: Mom & Pop Mega Super Store
New Yorker Magazine Cover: Mom & Pop Mega Super Store
New Yorker Magazine Cover: Mom & Pop Mega Super Store
In some ways, Bridge makes this cover true: we allow small mom and pop stores to offer massive, 'mega' online stores. For example, the Ivy House store in Dallas, Texas, is just 2,000 square feet with three employees--yet with Bridge's software offers a website with 54,383 products.
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September 26, 2020
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September 22, 2020
Store Reduces Website Costs by 90%
Store Reduces Website Costs by 90%
Store Reduces Website Costs by 90%
Contemporary Concepts, one of America’s premier luxury gift and tabletop stores, cut its website maintenance costs 90% by joining Bridge. The store, located in Pittsburgh, PA, joined Bridge this month. Before joining Bridge, the store was responsible for managing about 56,000 products online. The staff had to update prices for each item, find pictures, and load descriptions. By joining Bridge and using Bridge's product updating service (Smart Products), the store could offload ...
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September 22, 2020
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Press Release: Vietri and Bridge Partner to Help Independent Stores
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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 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 13, 2020
Is Your Store Selling At Its Full Potential?
Is Your Store Selling At Its Full Potential?
Is Your Store Selling At Its Full Potential?
When a shopper visits a retailer's website, it often sees just a fraction of what a brand offers. With Bridge, we can help retailers and brands fix this problem. To examine the solution, let's examine how a customer can shop for Juliska on two different retailer websites. One retailer uses the Juliska Smart Products service and the other does not.
Retailer Not Using Smart Products Service:
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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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