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Help your stores and get $300: Send an email inviting your retailers to join you on Shop Local.
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Get $300 for Hitting "Send"
Would you like to help your stores and make $300?Here’s How:
- Before May 31, 2023, send an email to your retailers inviting them to join you on Shop Local's e-commerce platform. We’ve written for you a sample email template you can send to them. Please find that template below. You can copy this template and send it using your email program (Outlook, MailChimp, etc.).
- When you send your email, please BCC [email protected] or forward it after you send it.
- Bridge Shop Local will give you a check for $300.
BONUS:
When a retailer signs up, we’ll give you an additional $200 per store.
Example:
- You send the email to your stores. Instantly, you’ve earned $300.
- Three stores sign up due to your email. You earn another $600 (3 x $200).
- Your total earnings: $900. Bridge will mail you checks for $300 and $600.
Stores that use Shop Local sell up to
18% more. When they sell more, you make more :)
****BEGINNING of email template to send to your stores:
Dear [Store Owner or Manager Name],
I'm writing because I have a solution to help your store sell more product. This is good for you (and me :) ). I'm inviting you to join me on Bridge's Shop Local e-commerce platform. Many of the brands you buy are using this platform.
- When you open an Online Store with Shop Local, products from our participating brands can be pre-populated into your Store.
- This is great for your store: the synced products save you time and money on website maintenance.
- This online Store includes an award-winning gift registry service. Let's grow your registry business!
- This service is the easiest solution to show and sell our products.
- You can more easily sell what you buy from my brands :)
Please note: Shop Local offers optional, paid services, but you do not need to use them. You can just use the free service.
BONUS:
You can get a $200 credit towards Shop Local's gift registry service when you sign up before May 31, 2023.
Please find more information below. Below you'll find participating brands, stores that use the service, and more.
When signing up, if you can, please enter my name in the referral field. I do get credit for helping my stores :)
Thank you,
[insert your sales rep name]
Sign Up--And Receive Your $200 Registry Credit:
Choose one of three ways to sign up:
- Email me. Simply reply to this email.
- Sign up online: https://www.shoplocal.org/
- Sign up using this one-page, PDF sheet: https://bridge.myshoplocal.com/docs/BRC/Shop-Local---Bridge-sign-up-sheet-v14-2023.pdf
Why should your store use Shop Local?
- Stores that use Shop Local sell 18% more.
- Gift registry is a massive part of e-commerce. Shop Local has handled 70,000 gift registries and $140,000,000 in sales for indie stores.
- Trim labor costs: stores that use the software save $1 and 3 minutes in labor per synced product. A store in Dallas syncs with 48,000 products and thereby saves $48,000 in labor costs.
- Babcock Gifts in Memphis, TN
- BC Clark in Oklahoma City, OK
- The Boutique in Charleston, SC
- The Cottage Shop in Savannah, GA
- Elizabeth Clair's in Tupelo, MS
- Fragile Gifts in Atlanta, GA
- The Ivy Cottage in Mobile, AL
- The Ivy House in Dallas, TX
- Lawren's in Huntsville, AL
- P.S. the Letter in Fort Worth, TX
- Schiffman's in Greensboro, NC
- Tipton Hurst in Little Rock, AR
112 brands sync products with their authorized stores via the service, including:
- Annieglass
- Casafina
- Baccarat
- Beatriz Ball
- Gien
- Herend
- Juliska
- MacKenzie-Childs
- Michael Aram
- Mottahedeh
- Royal Crown Derby
- Skyros Designs
- Vietri
Success story:
Patina's in Laurel, MS signed up for a free Shop Local Store and Registry.
- The store saved $23,164 in labor. The store instantly synced with 23,164 products.
- The store now sells more products online.
- How long does it take to open a Shop Local Store? Less than 5 minutes. You can do that here: https://www.shoplocal.org/
- Can a store that has an existing website, such as Shopify, use Shop Local? Yes. 100 stores use Shopify AND Shop Local.
- What will a store's Shop Local Store look like? Please view a live example here: https://babcockgifts.myshoplocal.com/
****End of template email to your stores
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