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Featured News Tuesday, October 3rd: New Features Webinar Tomorrow
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Featured News
Tuesday, October 3rd: New Features Webinar Tomorrow For All Members:

You're invited to our next New Features Review webinar on Tuesday, October 3rd at 4 pm EST.

You’ll learn:
  • About new features included in your Online Store.
  • How to save time using these new features.
  • How to use the features to sell more.
Members are invited to ask questions about new and existing features. A Shop Local coach will answer questions and show live examples of answers.  

Why attend?
  • Save time.  
  • Sell more. 
  • Meet other
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September 27, 2023 Tableware Today: Babcock Gifts Shares Inspiration
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Tableware Today: Babcock Gifts Shares Inspiration
September 27, 2023
Marion Samuel, who manages Babcock Gifts, a Tennessee-based gift shop, pens Tableware Today’s Last Word column in this month’s issue. She shares how they have grown over the last 50 years and run their store.

I was pleased to see her tout the store’s Bridge software. Babcock Gifts, which has been a client for 10 years, uses Bridge’s Shop Local gift registry service and Brand Syncing service. Using our service, they showcase 400+ couples’ gift registries online ...
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September 27, 2023 Tableware Today: Vista Alegre Promotes the Shop Local Platform
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Tableware Today: Vista Alegre Promotes the Shop Local Platform
September 27, 2023
We're happy to see Vista Alegre promote the Shop Local platform in Tableware Today's October / November 2023 issue.

In the advertisement, the brand displays our ShopLocal.org logo.  
  • A brand shows the logo so that retailers know they can easily sell the products shown.
  • When a brand offers our Brand Syncing service, a retailer can instantly display the brand's entire product catalog online.
  • The retailer's customers can buy the products and add them to gift registries. 
  • The
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September 26, 2023 Are You a Brand? Shopify Isn’t For You
Are You a Brand? Shopify Isn’t For You
September 26, 2023
Brands may consider using Shopify for their online operations. It’s important to note that brands can’t do many things with Shopify.  A key Shopify problem for a brand is that the brand has to have separate “stores” for retail and wholesale customers.  The reason is that Shopify doesn’t know what to charge the customer because it doesn’t know if it’s a general public shopper (that pays retail) or a retailer (that pays the wholesale price). &...
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September 26, 2023 Shop Local
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Shop Local
September 26, 2023
Thanks to Ashley, a fan of local shops, for sharing this picture from Salt Lake City.    View Post
September 25, 2023 Simplicity ⚪️
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Simplicity ⚪️
September 25, 2023
When Apple launched its new iPhones this month, one of its most noteworthy updates was replacing its Lightning charging cable with a USB-C. This was not a voluntary move or extension of Steve Jobs’s love of simplicity. Apple changed it because the European Union required them to, according to Ben Cohen in The Wall St. Journal. Now, just about every mobile phone in the world (forget just little ol’ Europe) will have one charging solution (USB-C).

While this may seem logical, it ...
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September 19, 2023 Standards Matter
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Standards Matter
September 19, 2023
Google, Amazon, and an array of home appliance companies are teaming up to make it easier for you to dim your home’s lights and lock your front doors. They are adopting a standard called Matter that allows devices to communicate and work together, shares The Wall St. Journal. This allows a giant like Amazon, creator of Alexa devices and Ring doorbells, and Tuo, a small home device tech creator, to use the same platform yet keep their internal, proprietary code base. This standard is like a...
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September 19, 2023 Help Your Stores & Get $70
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Help Your Stores & Get $70
September 19, 2023
FOR BRANDS AND AGENCIES

We've made a showroom flyer for you.   This flyer can be put in an upright display as well as printed and given to retailers. 

You are invited to print the attached PDF.

Bonus:
  • We'll send you $50 for displaying the flyer in an upright display. 
  • We'll send you $20 for printing these materials in order to hand them out in the showroom.
  • Your total compensation: $70.
  • For redemption of this offer, please email josephine@bridge.
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September 19, 2023 Ginori 1735 & Kering in The Times
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Ginori 1735 & Kering in The Times
September 19, 2023
Ginori 1735, a client using our Syncing service, was featured in a four-page Kering advertisement in the Times this past weekend. The ad promotes imagination and invites readers to enjoy a film. 

We thank Kering and Ginori 1735 for supporting their indie retailers and their imaginations. 

Checkout the film:
https://www.kering.com/en/group/ten-years-of-empowering-imagination/
 
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September 18, 2023 Amazon closes physical shops
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Amazon closes physical shops
September 18, 2023
The Wall Street Journal gives us an update on Amazon’s plans, ranging from stores, hardware, health care, and logistics.  The article shares that Amazon has closed all of its bookstores and 4-star stores. 

Read the full article: 
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-fourth-pillar-3024a3c3 View Post
Tuesday, November 7th: New Features Webinar Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023
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Tuesday, November 7th: New Features Webinar Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023 For All Members:

You're invited to our next New Features Review webinar on Tuesday, November 7th at 4 pm EST.

You’ll learn:
  • About new features included in your Online Store.
  • How to save time using these new features.
  • How to use the features to sell more.
Members are invited to ask questions about new and existing features. A Shop Local coach will answer questions and show live examples of answers.  

Why attend?
  • Save time.  
  • Sell more. 
  • Meet
...
Read More

» RSVP
September 11, 2023 Veselka Instagram
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Veselka Instagram
September 11, 2023
Veselka, a famous Ukrainian restaurant on my block, shared this on their Instagram.

P.S. ~ I’m reading The Cold Start Problem, a book about network-based companies. It’s helping me understand how to help indie stores and brands connect online.  View Post
September 10, 2023 Zero Sum Networks ⚔️
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Zero Sum Networks ⚔️
September 10, 2023
Andrew Chen shares in 'The Cold Start Problem' that many times, networks are competing in a zero-sum game. One network gets a customer to join their network and thereby not participate in another. For example, when a driver used Lyft instead of Uber, Uber, which Chen helped, lost. And it lost in two regards: Uber lost the revenue from the lost ride, and Lyft gained the revenue. Chen’s team was tasked with getting drivers to use all their time driving for Uber and thereby unraveling Lyft&...
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September 10, 2023 Herend mentioned in The New York Times
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Herend mentioned in The New York Times
September 10, 2023
Herend, a maker of fine tableware and giftware, was mentioned by the Stephanie Carter, the wife of the ex-Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter. 

Excerpt: 
“She added a few new pieces, including Herend ceramic figurines of a lion and a squirrel. “I called Ash ‘Lion’ and he called me ‘Squirrelly,’” she explained. “All these things make me feel like he’s with me in a great way, not in a preserved-in-amber way.” “

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September 8, 2023 $500 Give-Get Promotion
$500 Give-Get Promotion
September 8, 2023
FOR SALES REPS

We'll pay you and the store both $500 each.
  • Shop Local will pay you $500 for referring a retailer. 
  • The retailer just needs to open a free Online Store.
  • You can sign the retailer up, or the retailer can sign up.
  • Shop Local will give the retailer a $500 credit.
  • The retailer can use the $500 towards a paid Gift Registry feature.
  • A retailer can choose to just use the free services and not a paid feature. It can choose to use the $500 if it wishes to use a
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September 7, 2023 Video: New Features Webinar / September 2023
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Video: New Features Webinar / September 2023
September 7, 2023
In this recording, learn about new software features on the Shop Local platform:
https://vimeo.com/862177411/fab5c30416?share=copy

We cover these features:
  • Registry Overview page. 
  • Registry link in the Masterbar. 
  • Viewing a brand's opening order amount. 
  • More easily see which credit card a customer used. 
  • See your sales reps on one page.  
  • More easily access a brand's settings. 
  • See gift giver's name on a registry list. 


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September 7, 2023 Love Those Margins 💖
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Love Those Margins 💖
September 7, 2023
Dating apps are launching higher-priced premium tiers, according to last week’s The Wall St. Journal. Hinge offers a new $50/month plan, and Tinder is launching a $500/month plan. The League already offers a $1,000 plan. These pricey plans take the sting out of Bumble’s $60/month plan.

Why are companies offering such plans? Because even if Tinder only gets 10% of users, that's millions. Plus, the profit and margins are likely higher for customers using these plans. A normal ...
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September 4, 2023 New Milestone: 1,300+ Retailers Use Our Online Store
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New Milestone: 1,300+ Retailers Use Our Online Store
September 4, 2023
We're happy to share that we've reached a new milestone: more than 1,300 indie retailers use our Online Store. As a reference, in 2015 just 100 stores used the platform.

Thank you to all our retailers and brand partners for making this growth and success possible.  View Post
September 3, 2023 Jugaad’a Do What Jugaad’a Do 🚀
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Jugaad’a Do What Jugaad’a Do 🚀
September 3, 2023
India last month joined three other countries in the exclusive club that has put a craft on the moon. What’s unique about India’s accomplishment is that it did this at a fraction of what the U.S. spends on space exploration, shares Ben Cohen in The Wall St. Journal. While the U.S.’s NASA program has a $24b budget, India’s ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) budget is just $1.3b. India, which started its space program in 1963, is able to do more with less because of ...
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September 1, 2023 Are People Spending Too Much Money on Attending Weddings?
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Are People Spending Too Much Money on Attending Weddings?
September 1, 2023
Read The Wall St. Journal article: 
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/too-many-weddings-cost-c72e6f07?st=gqfu0fd3z22sxrb&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink View Post

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