How to upload your products and Sync with top indie stores in six weeks.
FOR BRANDS AND DISTRIBUTORS
Your Shop Local Store has a new feature: We created a six week boarding plan to help you increase your sales as quickly as possible.
About this feature:
- The six week schedule shows the boarding steps that will be completed each week to add your brand as a Syncing brand.
- This schedule plans for your brand to use the Syncing and Wholesale services.
- By week six (or sooner), you'll have your products on the platform and in your
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Jason Solarek and Laura May at The Ivy House
Your Shop Local account offers a built-in solution to shop thousands of products. The Wholesale service combines the best features from wholesale marketplaces and buying on a brand’s site into a new service. Shop Local retailers can save time and money by using the Wholesale service.
The Ivy House, an indie retailer in Texas that has used our e-commerce software since 2015, uses the Wholesale service to save time and money. Laura May, the owner of The...
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Dollars & Sense
How integrating a messaging service into our e-commerce platform can help us acquire new customers.
How integrating a messaging service into our e-commerce platform can help us acquire new customers.
It takes a lot of people to build a bridge, but just two to tango. This applies to the analog world as well as the digital one. In the digital space, I'm using tango to refer to messaging between two people. I believe messaging is a service we can add to our offering to diversify how our company Shop Local grows.
Different Networks Require a Different Number of Users in a Group
Andrew Chen in The Cold Start Problem states that a key difference among network models is...
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A store using Bridge could chose to offer a loyalty program to customers, such as the one Bridge may create for stores. Bridgeโs tentative loyalty program may help 1,100 indie stores team up and be competitive on price with brands that sell direct and big-box retailers.
When we talk about prices, there are two prices that are important:
- The price that we charge clients.
- The price our clients charge their customers.
We normally talk about the former, aka how our prices compare with other competitors, like Shopify or wholesale services like Faire.
Of increasing importance to us is what our retailers charge their customers. Walmart recently announced that it was taking brands to account and ...
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