Building Relationships Through Giving Gifts with John Ruhlin
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
We talk about relationships but what about building relationships through giving gifts? What are the dos and don'ts of successful gift-giving? Here to tell us is gifting expert, best-selling author and keynote speaker John Ruhlin.
On today's episode of The Speaker Lab, John tells us who to give gifts to, when to give gifts, and how to reframe gift-giving as an investment versus just another line item expense.
You'll hear those topics plus a few great gifting stories on this edition of The Speaker Lab.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- How to show appreciation even during a pandemic.
- Why gifting is the purple cow of business.
- Why doesn't he allow his clients to send gifts at Christmas?
- What makes gifting one of the most effective ways to stand out in a crowd?
- Why you should stop putting logos on your gifts.
- What are the four buckets of the Inner circle and how do you invest in those buckets with gifting?
- Why you should never send a gift after receiving a referral.
- What should you do if you cannot afford to give gifts?
- And so much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
- John Ruhlin's web site
- Giftology by John Ruhlin
- John Ruhlin on Twitter
- How to Create a Gifting Plan For Your Business (for free)
- Email John Ruhlin
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| 1:39.9 | this is the book for you so again the book is the successful speaker five Five Steps for Booking Gigs, Getting Paid, and Building Your Platform. All right, today we are talking with my buddy, John Rulin, from Giftology. And John teaches how do you build relationships through gifts? So we talk about what does this look like in terms of the do's and don'ts of giving gifts? John tells one of the best stories you've've ever heard right out of the gate. We also talk about who you should be giving gifts to and when you're |
| 2:05.7 | building relationships with people. And then finally we talk about in the context of the current |
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