BRX Pro Tip: How to be a Better Gift Giver
Stone Payton: [00:00:00] Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, I genuinely believe that most people want to be generous. They want to be givers. I would say virtually 100 percent of the people who tap into our content have that mindset, that perspective. But what can we do to be a better gift giver?
Lee Kantor: [00:00:26] Well, there’s a couple things you can do, and they’re easy and you can start it right now. But, first, have a place on your phone where you keep notes and label a folder within that note taking app, Gifts. And then, list all the people that are important to you in that gift category. These are all the people that might be your clients, that could be your teammates, it could be in your personal life. Whoever they are, whoever you think that it might be good to give gifts to at some point in the future, just start listing them.
Lee Kantor: [00:00:58] And then, once you’ve done that, wherever you are during the day or wherever in the course of the day, you see something and you’re like, “Oh. Mary would like that.” Just jot it down in that app and say, “Oh. Mary, boom, Here, this restaurant gift card is something that she might like down the road.” Or “Oh, she would like that book,” or she would like, you know, whatever interesting thing you happen to stumble upon at the time. And then, you just write it down in your gift folder.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:25] Now, you have a much better starting point when it comes to buying a gift for this person. When it’s time to get them the gift, you now have some ideas that you can go to and go, “Oh yeah. I remember I saw that a few months ago, now I’m ready to get her that.” And today, remember, when it comes to gift giving, people value experiences more than more stuff. People I think are getting tired of getting things and they’d much rather have some sort of experience. So, think about that when it comes time to giving a gift.
Stone Payton: [00:01:55] Well, I think this is a marvelous idea and it really is timely for me. Just this morning in a networking meeting, one of the folks in that group that I’ve gotten to know pretty well described how much he loves Spider-Man. And everybody laughed and we had a good time with it. But now I think I’m going to keep my antenna up. And if I see something kind of cool that’s Spider-Man related, you know, I’ll pick it up and I’ll make a gift of it. And that’s probably going to have a lot more lasting power and be more meaningful. His name is Oscar. To Oscar, then something. I think this is a great idea.
