Material Possessions, a gift shop in Illinois, needed a quick solution to boost its online presence. With Amazon and Covid-19 nipping at indie stores' heels, stores need to quickly boost their online offering.
In just 24 hours, Material Possessions opened a Bridge account and is currently offering 15,000+ products for sale. The retailer can sell these products directly from its Bridge Store--or it can export the products and import them into its parent website (https://...
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October 23, 2019
October 23, 2019
Good news: Retailers can now sync with an unlimited number of Smart Brands for $28.
Details: + A retailer just needs to subscribe to a Bridge plan that is $28 or more per month. If you pay $28/month or more for Bridge service, your business qualifies. + If you are a retailer that is paying less than $28/month, you can sync with up to 10 Smart Brands.
Benefits of syncing with Smart Brands: + Save time and money. Let brands maintain products for you. + Sell more. Retailers report selling 13% more due ...
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October 7, 2019
October 7, 2019
Nice to see four Smart Brands featured on one page in HFN: Moser, Royal Copenhagen, Iitala, and Royal Limoges.
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September 9, 2019
September 9, 2019
For Brands:
Wish your dealers and reps had real-time stock information? Bridge can help.
Bridge is helping 30+ Smart Brands share stock via Bridge including:
Anna Weatherley Arzberg Badash Calaisio Capdeco Casafina Chef & Sommelier Costa Nova Couzon Deshoulieres Erbario Toscano Ercuis J.L. Coquet Jaune de chrome Kim Seybert Mario Luca Giusti Mariposa Medard de Noblat Meissen Nambé Pinto Paris Portus Cale Raynaud Rosenthal Royal Crown Derby Royal Limoges Sambonet SV Casa Thomas by Rosenthal Varga Versace by Rosenthal Vietri
How the program works: 1. Refer a retailer to Bridge. E-mail us the store’s name. We’ll do the rest of the work. E-mail: [email protected] 2. After the store is active 60 days, we'll send you a check for $50. :)
What the store receives: This reminded me: I'm happy to mail you $50 for referring a store.
For free, your stores can receive: 1. A Bridge account filled with professional product pictures and accurate prices. 2. Award-winning e-commerce and...
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August 22, 2019
August 22, 2019
Stores that offer convenience and deals are winning, shares today’s WSJ. Sales at Walmart, Target, and T.J. Maxx are up while they’re murky at Macy’s, J.C. Penny, and Nordstrom. Just offering deals isn’t enough, nor is just offering next-day delivery. A store is going to have to accept smaller margins via deals and convenience offerings. The alternative is: join Macy’s with its 50% stock drop.
Nordstrom’s sales are down 5% and profit fell about $20m.
Kohl’s, which has a partnership with Amazon, ...
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April 3, 2019
April 3, 2019
The default price floor for Smart Products is now $100. The old price was $50.
We increased the price floor to reduce the number of orders you may receive for small, 'one off' orders. Some Smart Brands have a $100 or $200 minimum order. By raising the price floor, we reduce the likelihood you'll have to place a special order yet not meet the minimum order.
Please note: even if an item have the price floor in effect, a customer will be prompted to call your store to order it, and can still add ...
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January 25, 2019
January 25, 2019
Do you hate managing price increases?
Most retailers do. In January, many brands raise prices. Retailers are buried under Excel files and Dropbox links. Retailers are expected to change prices for 100s or even 1,000s of products.
How can an indie store keep up with these price changes?
We have a solution: Smart Products.
Over four hundred retailers that use Smart Products never have to worry about Excel files and Dropbox links. They get instant price increases from 120 partner brands including: + ...
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Friday, Jan. 18, 2019
Friday, Jan. 18, 2019
Location: Dallas Market Center (Suite 2420)
You're invited:
Ryan Associates and Bridge invite you to grow your registry business. In 2019, thousands of brides will register each day--they should be registering at your store. Let us help you get picked by them.
Event details:
When: Friday, January 18th at 5 pm
What: 7 Ways to Increase Your Gift Registry Sales
Where: Trademart Building, Suite 2420 Across from the Lamont Showroom Dallas Market Center
Who: Jason Solarek will show you 7 ways to increase your gift registry business.
How to get your bonus: 1. Sign up a new store to Bridge. 2. Let us know that you signed up the store by emailing us the store's name. 3. After the store is active 90 days, we'll send you a check for $50. :)
Terms: 1. The store must sync with 2 or more of Bridge's Smart Brands. A store can choose from 110+ Smart Brands. For example, if you rep Vietri, can you sign up a store and have it sync with Vietri and Erbario ...
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November 5, 2018
November 5, 2018
FOR RETAILERS:
Good news: we're allowing you to add an UNLIMITED number of items to your Bridge store.
Previously, Bridge had caps on how many items you could add manually. For example, in the past a plan may have let you add 5,000 items manually. Now, all plans allow you to add an unlimited number of items.
We've made some other updates to the pricing. The free plan now includes 10 Smart Brands (approximately 5,000 Smart Products).
We've also added a threshold to the number of staff account one...
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August 19, 2018
August 19, 2018
How can your store succeed in 2018? Here are 4 questions to ask your business:
1. How many items does your online store offer from each brand that you sell? You'll want to make a list with 3 columns: one with the brand and one with the approximate number of items on your site. In the third column, enter in the total number of items offered by the brand. Shoppers often seek the website with the greatest selection.
For which brands are you missing the most items?
You'll most likely want to sync with ...
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July 30, 2018
July 30, 2018
Timo Sarpaneva is the focus of an exhibition at the Design Museum in Helsinki, Finland. He has had enormous influence on two of our Smart Brands partners Iittala and Rosenthal.
Also in the exhibition are photographs that tell some of his story — among them, images of the fantastical, crowd-attracting shop windows (adorned with glass harps and butterflies hanging from invisible wires) that he created for Iittala, the company that hired him in 1950. It was there that he made his name as a glass ...
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June 2, 2018
June 2, 2018
$40 Referral Program:
Do you know a shop owner that needs help competing against Amazon?
Good news: Bridge will pay you to help.
Bridge will give you $40 for referring a new retailer who signs up for a free Bridge account in the month of June.
How can you get your $40? Simple: 1. Email us the name of the store. Please include a contact name. 2. That's it. We'll take it from there.
The only requirement is the store sign up for a free Bridge plan and sync for free with two of its suppliers via the Smart ...
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May 9, 2018
May 9, 2018
FOR RETAILERS:
Please find our updated pricing for the Bridge service here. This updated pricing will take effect July 1st, 2018.
In some areas, Bridge is giving your business notably more. For example, in April of 2017 Bridge offered your business 10 Smart Brands for $59. In May of 2018, Bridge is providing your business with the product data from 40 Smart Brands for $49. In sum, you can receive 400 percent more product data yet pay 17% less.
If you are unsure how this affects what you'll pay ...
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March 7, 2018
March 7, 2018
We're happy to see Smart Brands Anna Weatherly and Waterford make the 'must have' list on Inside Weddings.
In the article, item #7 is Anna Weatherly's Simply Anna dinnerware.
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15 Popular Products to Add to Your Wedding Registry Stuck on what to add to your wish list? Start with these essentials. from Inside Weddins
If you're not quite sure where to begin, most couples start by selecting a few retailers from which to register. Popular options include well-known department ...
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February 27, 2018
February 27, 2018
We're happy to see Smart Brands Anna Weatherly and Waterford make the 'must have' list on Inside Weddings.
In the article, item #7 is Anna Weatherly's Simply Anna dinnerware.
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15 Popular Products to Add to Your Wedding Registry Stuck on what to add to your wish list? Start with these essentials. from Inside Weddins
If you're not quite sure where to begin, most couples start by selecting a few retailers from which to register. Popular options include well-known department ...
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February 27, 2018
February 27, 2018
We're happy to see Smart Brands Anna Weatherly and Waterford make the 'must have' list on Inside Weddings.
In the article, items #7 and #8 (respectively) are Anna Weatherly's Simply Anna dinnerware and Waterford's Lismore Tall stemware.
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15 Popular Products to Add to Your Wedding Registry Stuck on what to add to your wish list? Start with these essentials. from Inside Weddins
If you're not quite sure where to begin, most couples start by selecting a few retailers from ...
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February 24, 2018
February 24, 2018
We're happy to share that Bridge is giving retailers access to 500% more Smart Products for free. If you're subscribing to a paid plan, you're now just paying $.01 per item.
Please check out this chart comparing our pricing from last year vs this year.
2018 Pricing Highlights: + Bridge is giving retailers 500% more Smart Products for free.
+ With $49/month plan, Bridge is giving retailers 200% more products for free and we reduced the price 17%.
+ Retailers can sync with 20 Smart Brands (or about 6...
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