Bestowe Gifting - Gifting that Supports Small-Batch Artisans
The Story of a Brand
Ramon Vela
5 • 145 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
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“We support small-batch artisans, local businesses, and a sustainable economy,” that's what makes Bestowe Gifting unique. In part 1, we have Catherine Weis, Founder of Bestowe Gifting, a high-end curated gifting brand that makes gifting effortless.
Catherine had a background in graphic design. She had been in marketing and e-commerce for over 20 years. She was always a content creator who loved helping others. That's why ten years ago, she started a blog along with her friends to support local artisans.
Later, the blog’s success led her to launch her brand, Bestowe Gifting. She offers customized gifting for individuals and businesses.
She discusses:
* Gratefulness
* Who is Bestowe Gifting
* What motivated her
* Her background and blog
* Her passion for creating
* The rabbit hole of her business
* Putting together a gifting box
* Shift during the pandemic
* Their criteria for choosing Artisans
Join Ramon Vela and Catherine Weis as they break down the inside story on The Story of a Brand.
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| 0:00.0 | Recorded at Mute Six Studios. |
| 0:07.0 | This is not your average entrepreneur or e-commerce podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | And he's not your average host. |
| 0:14.0 | This is the story of a brand with your host, Ramon Vela. |
| 0:18.0 | The Stowe is essentially a high-end host, Ramon Vela. |
| 0:31.1 | The Stowe is essentially a high-end curated gifting resource that makes gifting effortless. |
| 0:32.8 | We're online. |
| 0:41.6 | We're also a full-service company, so we offer customized gifting for our clients as well for larger batch gifting. And what makes us unique is that we support small batch artisans, local businesses, |
| 0:48.8 | and a sustainable economy through our quality gifting. So about 90% of our products that we sell, depending on the scale of the custom gifting, |
| 0:59.0 | is all in support of the small batch artisans that you might find at the markets that you go to |
| 1:07.0 | during the holiday season or your store on the street. So it's really a way to help people |
| 1:13.0 | connect to their local markets and their local artisans. And it's our way to give back. And |
| 1:24.8 | we love doing, we love curating these gifts. So it's a win-win. |
| 1:33.0 | If all DDC companies were forced to turn off their Facebook ads, they'd be dead on arrival. |
| 1:39.0 | Why is that? Well, they overinvest in paid acquisition and underinvest and retention. |
| 1:45.3 | Luckily, Sendlane makes it easy to solve this problem. |
| 1:48.9 | Sendlane is an e-commerce customer experience platform helping hundreds of DTC brands to tighten their existing customer relationships. |
| 1:56.3 | Send Lane automates personalized customer experiences through welcome and abandoning cart workflows, |
| 2:01.2 | SMS, deep data integrations with Shopify and WooCommerce, multi-store functionality, and much |
| 2:06.9 | more. Plus, they don't stand for lazy customer support. Their San Diego-based team has an average, |
| 2:14.1 | get this, one-minute response time from a live human, making sure you never get stuck in a chat queue ever again. |
| 2:22.7 | Curious about how SennLing can help your D-2-C brand grow? |
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