Teaming up to give dream gifts

Your 1-minute-a-week shortcut to
always having awesome gift ideas well in advance.

In addition to the newsletter, check out our
gift-giving playbooks and gift guides 🎁📕.

Hi gift-givers! This newsletter inspires you to think outside the box to unlock better gift-giving opportunities.

Thank you those who referred new subscribers in exchange for my list of the most THOUGHTFUL 1-2 gift ideas shared in all of the past BGC emails.

For those who are still seeking a jolt to their holiday gift brainstorming, here are two ways to get yourself a copy:

1. Refer 2 new subscribers (share your unique link found in the “Share Better Gift Coach” section with your friends/family and it’ll track new subscribers that you’ve referred)

2. Purchase it here

Estimated read time: 2 minutes & 23 seconds

The “pooling funds" Gift:

• Prioritizes the gift-recipient’s happiness over anything else

• Helps check off mutual gift-recipient’s from other people’s gift lists too

• Unlocks better gift-giving opportunities that you couldn’t pursue alone

• The additional effort to coordinate multiple parties and make this gift happen make it extra thoughtful and meaningful

 📕BGC Playbook for Pooling Funds Gifts:

1. Identify their dream gifts - Pay attention to potential gifts on their wish list that are out of the reach of your resources alone. You can even just help everyone (the gift-recipient & other potential group gift-givers) by being like my mom and just asking them to identify their dream gifts

2. Find collaborators - Identify & reach out to potential contributors to the gift and gauge their interest in combining resources to make this gift happen. Eventually, you’ll have to solidify those contributor commitments.

3. Make it happen with transparency - Take the lead in seeing this gift to the finish line. This will likely have you collecting money, buying, receiving, and wrapping the gift. You should also be regularly communicating your progress with all of the contributors to put their minds at ease.

4. Give credit - Ensure anyone who contributed receives credit for their contribution

Because I think group gifts are awesome, here are other great, MOSTLY FREE, group gift ideas in which the parties contribute something other than money:

• 🎁 Low-cost gift of a lifetime

• 🎁 $0 cost for memories never lost

• 🎁 How to upgrade a surprise party

• 🎁 Turning words into sentimental art

• 🎁 A lifetime of book recommendations

• [see the playbook above]

For making this and other gifts happen, consider BGC’s playbook for confident gift-giving that saves you time & stress: 4-Step Playbook for Giving Better Gifts in a Busy World. Interested, but not sure? Here’s a free preview of the playbook.

Forward this email to:

• Those with a reputation of coordinating group efforts

• Someone whose spouse has expensive taste enjoys the “finer things in life”

PLUS win a reward for introducing new subscribers to your favorite 1-minute-a-week shortcut to always having awesome gift ideas well in advance.

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Cheers to thinking outside the (gift)box,
Patrick Kucharson
Better Gift Coach

P.S. I dare you to email me with some background info on the most difficult person on your holiday gift list. I’m eager for the challenge to help you brainstorm gift ideas for them.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the poll from 🎁Classic, simple, inexpensive gift of thoughtfulness

Here’s what everyone should keep in mind when brainstorming thoughtful gifts:

• Nearly 50% of respondents said an annual reflections letter gift would be one of their favorite gifts

• Another 35% replied that they’d at least enjoy this gift

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