The Art of Strategic Gifting with John Ruhlin
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2016
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
I don’t care who you are. Even billionaires. We like to be surprised and delighted. Most people I would say walk around feeling under-appreciated and not over appreciated, whether it’s by your family, by your employee, by your kids….In general most people feel under appreciated by their most important relationships. So I think when you gift no strings attached, and it’s not an obligatory year end gift. I don’t send one gift between Thanksgiving and Christmas because that’s an obligation. But when somebody gets a gift just because “I was thinking of you” or just “because of who you are”, I don’t care if you live in South America or Nowhereseville, Ohio, that makes people feel a certain way. And we all crave that appreciation and acknowledgement as a human being. When you tap into that feeling, it’s powerful. And I think we’re all wired at a DNA level, to want to reciprocate it in some, way, shape or form eventually. – John Ruhlin
John Ruhlin is the author of Giftology and drives sales growth by teaching gifting strategies to leaders in the pro sports, non-profit, and business world.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody, even billionaires, like I don't care who you are, like we like to be surprised and delighted and we like to be, most people I would say, walk around feeling underappreciated, not over-appreciated. |
| 0:13.0 | But whether it's by your family, by your employees, by your kids, |
| 0:18.0 | maybe not your dog. |
| 0:20.0 | Maybe your dog is the one thing, like one great because they show love and appreciation constantly no matter what. |
| 0:27.8 | But in general, most people feel underappreciated by their most important relationships. |
| 0:31.8 | And so I think when you gift no strings attached and it's not an obligatory year-end, like I hate gifts. |
| 0:38.9 | I don't send one gift between Thanksgiving and Christmas because that's an obligation. |
| 0:46.7 | I like to send gifts just because when somebody gets a gift and it's, hey, just because |
| 0:50.8 | I was thinking of you or hey, just because of you are I think I don't care where if you live in South America or you live in the middle of nowhere'sville Ohio like that's that makes people feel a certain way and I think that we all crave that that |
| 1:05.7 | appreciation and that acknowledgement as a human being and when you tap into that |
| 1:10.8 | feeling it's a powerful, powerful feeling, and I think we're all wired at |
| 1:16.3 | a DNA level, some more than others, to want to reciprocate it some way, shape, or form eventually. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm Sreni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative |
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