In this month’s Garden & Gun magazine, a profile on a Houston merchant shows Herend and Le Creuset products. Herend and Le Creuset are Shop Local clients and use our Product Syncing service to market their products to authorized retailers and their customers.
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Internet pioneer, Vint Cerf, made a big break through by drawing it on the back of an envelope in 1983. This story, shared in today’s The Wall Street Journal, hit home because I first drew the concept for Bridge’s Product Syncing solution on a napkin at a Chelsea bar in 2007. That concept now helps 1,100 indie shops sell 60k+ products from 100+ premium brands, including Le Creuset, Baccarat, and Versace. Since that drawing, I’ve become a big fan of drawing processes to ...
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Work With the Nation's Leading Brands and Indie Shops to Support Main Street
Shop Local is a fast-growing e-commerce and gift registry platform providing services to leading independent retailers and premium brands. Based in New York, NY, Shop Local is seeking candidates to support the existing software and build out new services that will change the retail industry.
Shop Local has an opening for an entry level web developer to update the existing code base and write new applications. We are...
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PUMPKIN CAST IRON COCOTTE: Inspired by a timeless fairy tale design and the brilliant colors of autumn, the Pumpkin Cocotte is a delightful seasonal addition to your kitchen and table. With its unique ribbed design and hand sculpted stainless steel figural knob, the versatility of this pot makes it ideal for everything from comforting soups and stews to braising, baking and more. Crafted from our legendary enameled cast iron, it has exceptional heat distribution and retention qualities for even ...
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In a 2007 article in The New Yorker, Atul Gawande, a surgeon and an author, advocatedthat 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...
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There are approximately 40 online e-commerce providers. These software providers help other businesses sell online by offering them the ability to run an online store. These providers include Bridge as well as Shopify, Magento, Big Commerce, BigCartel, Square, and Weebly. Does Bridge offer a different (better?) experience than these other platforms? We believe the answer is yes. We also think our 960 retail clients agree: 99.7% of our retailers retain our service each month.
Most e-commerce platforms isolate you and leave you adrift. Bridge connects you with your business friends.
Bridge's unique features:
Built-in Social Network: Friend your business friends on Bridge. This allows you to share news and files, message each other, support accomplishments with one another, and share your passions.
Product Syncing Between Retailers and Brands: Save $1,000 and 50 hours on every 1,000 products you add to your store by using Bridge's
Today’s Wall St. Journal reports on the need by retailers to quickly update prices due to inflationary pressures. We agree: Bridge has been offering an instant price update service to retailers for their websites for 14 years. On a daily basis, our Product Syncing service helps Kate Spade, Baccarat, Le Creuset, and 100 premium brands update prices for 60,000 products on 930 stores’ websites.
Relying on file-sharing services like Dropbox to sell products often costs stores an extra $750 per brand and hurts sales
I work with 900 retailers who tell me they are drowning in a sea of Dropbox folders containing Excel files and product images. What can we do about this? First, let’s review what’s happening: When a brand wants to share products with a store, it emails the store a link from Dropbox or a similar file-sharing service. A store may receive five to ten Dropbox links...
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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, ...
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We are pleased to announce that Le Creuset has joined Bridge and the Smart Products program.
Founded in 1925, Le Creuset is a favorite in premium cookware. Le Creuset revolutionized cooking almost a century ago with the very first colorful cast iron. The empowering joy their vibrant cookware first brought into kitchens is now shared from generation to generation, in kitchens and around tables all over the world.
Le Creuset’s products will be ready for syncing with authorized ...
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March 30, 2017
March 30, 2017
Worry no more, we have NEW Le Creuset in the store! Every cooking connoisseur knows that Le Creuset cookware is a must in the kitchen. And the fact that all the pieces are in such fun colors is just a bonus! || We know youβve been thinking about getting new pots, now is the time.
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August 11, 2016
August 11, 2016
Curious how major online retailers go about charging sales tax--or not charging it? Jet.com is about to charge tax in more states due its being acquired by Wal-mart. For example, a Le Creuset oven will now require $32 more in tax on Jet.com.
Indy businesses: being small is a tax advantage online.
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March 6, 2016
March 6, 2016
How often is Le Creuset mentioned on the Time's home page? Probably not too often - and yet this mention isn't likely the one the storied kitchenware brand wanted: it's about misleading customers. The biggest abusers of customers: online entities like Wayfair, Overstock, and Amazon.
In contrast, indy mom and pop stores don't have the lax morals, chutzpah, nor technical ability to pull the cons these big online players do.
This story is actually good reason to shop with your local store.