In this video, I discuss:
1. Why indie stores are having a hard-time competing online. 2. What these stores need to do to overcome the obstacles. 3. How Bridge's software can help them quickly.
I recommend that one view their website as a 'fish tank.' For starters, it has to be filled with brands, products, and features. When a store does this, the fish (aka the store) will thrive.
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This advertisement reminded me of our goal at Bridge: save you time. You weren’t born to update your website. Many retailers report that Bridge cuts their website maintenance by 80%—which means 80% less time in front of a computer.
We save Kenny Cohen, owner of Contemporary Concepts in Pittsburgh, PA, hundreds of hours each year. He remarked about Bridge:
"When we switched to Bridge Store, we cut our website maintenance costs by 86%. Instead of ...
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MEMBERSHIP SURGES 50% IN E-COMMERCE COMMUNITY Online Shopping Boom Drives Retail Industry to Team Up On Bridge
NEW YORK, NY, July 30, 2021 – Bridge, an e-commerce community, reported a record increase in membership as the pandemic continued to rattle the retail landscape. In the last 12 months, 275 retail stores joined Bridge, bringing the total membership to more than 826 stores—a 50% increase. ...
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Today’s WSJ shares that independent stores, including hardware stores, book shops, and pharmacies, have teamed up to stop Amazon’s bad practices. The group, called Small Business Rising, seeks to use anti-trust laws to prevent Amazon marketplace from selling its own goods—which compete with retailers using the platform. Amazon has been shown to use a retailer’s customer and sales data and bypass the retailer (it’s own customer) in order to make a bigger profit. ...
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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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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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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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This graphic from the cover of ‘The Business Book’ caught my eye. Bridge helps businesses eliminate unnecessary steps, and it’s beneficial to lay out all the steps Bridge helps retailers skip.
Without Bridge’s Smart Products service, retailers would go through the following steps when adding a product to their website:
1. Realize they need a product on their website.
2. Google the product.
3. From the Google results, identify the correct product.
4. Download the ...
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March 13, 2015
March 13, 2015
Wedgwood products are now available via Bridge.
Wedgwood's Bridge offers you 600+ items with professional pictures, dimensions, and accurate prices.
Wedgwood Bridge benefits: + Save money and time in website maintenance. + Increase sales to the general public. + Increase bridal sales.
How can you start syncing products with Wedgwood? Just contact us. You may also contact your Wedgwood sales rep.
This program is available only to authorized dealers.
To see the Wedgwood products that your site would be ...
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January 6, 2010
January 6, 2010
What decisions does a company make in building a website:
How many products do you want to sell quickly? If you choose the Bridge, you have the power to sell up to 13,000+ products from 14 brands. In addition, we are adding new products and brands often.
How much money do you wish to spend adding products, maintaining prices, and removing old product? If you choose the Bridge, you have the power to add up to 13,000+ products for pennies on the dollar.
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