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“Barry's SmallGyfts is a simple but superb one-stop-shop to boost loyalty and sales, and here comes my favorite part, to boost community support by connecting with passionate customers who love...”
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“Barry's SmallGyfts is a simple but superb one-stop-shop to boost loyalty and sales, and here comes my favorite part, to boost community support by connecting with passionate customers who love their community, and who appreciate that you give back.”
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Folashade Oladipo
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About Us
SmallGyfts helps local businesses stop renting their customers from Google, Thumbtack, and Angi.
Most local service businesses finish a great job and then hope the customer remembers to tell someone. They don't. So the business goes back to buying cold leads from platforms that charge them $50 to $150 for someone who's shopping five competitors at the same time.
We built a simple system that fixes that. Every happy customer gets a reason to come back and a reason to send their friends, family, and neighbors your way. Some customers come back for the savings. Others connect to a local cause they care about and start telling their whole circle about your business.
The result: your marketing dollars stop leaving town and start working inside your own community. Your best customers become your best salespeople. And every dollar you spend either brings someone back or puts your name in front of people who already trust the person who sent them.
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"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?" - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
How We Got Started
I spent my career solving complex problems in engineering and IT. A few years ago I started asking: why do local businesses keep paying for customers that their happy customers should already be sending them?
SmallGyfts helps local businesses stop renting their customers from Google, Thumbtack, and Angi. Most businesses finish a great job and hope the customer tells someone. They don't. So the business goes back to buying cold leads at $50 to $150 a pop from people shopping five competitors at the same time.
We built a simple system that changes that. Every happy customer gets a reason to come back and a reason to send people their way. Some hold onto the card for the savings. Others connect it to a cause they care about and start spreading the business name through their church, school or neighborhood. Their marketing dollars stop leaving town. Every dollar they spend either brings someone back or puts their name in front of the community where they do business.
The products and services we offer
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"Great Product that everybody could use in their business."
"Hello everyone, Barry is helping keep money in the community with a program you should look at...."
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"Hello everyone, Barry is helping keep money in the community with a program you should look at. He is looking to partner with people that meet with retail business on a daily basis. "
Products & Services
Your customers want to know what makes you special. Why should they choose you over the 10 other businesses that show up in their search results.
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SmallGyfts puts referrals on autopilot so you can focus on your business.
Turn your customers into active brand advocates by offering rewards tha...
SmallGyfts provides you with a unique way to raise money to achieve your mission and help local businesses in your community.
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Recommendations Given (108)
"Akuchie Great of Auto Devz is dedicated to his craft of creating professional websites that gets..."
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"Akuchie Great of Auto Devz is dedicated to his craft of creating professional websites that gets you notice, and more importantly, gets you customers. His approach of designing for clarity and conversion will change how your site performs."
"I had the fortune of meeting Brian on a quick connect and then in a follow up call. Brian..."
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"I had the fortune of meeting Brian on a quick connect and then in a follow up call. Brian knowledge and passion shine through and he delivers valuable sales lessons that you can immediately put to work. He’s an expert that shares generously as evident in the 9 books he’s written. If you’re looking for someone to help you or your Sales team or need a good motivational speaker, Brian’s your man."
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I believe small businesses should give back to help local nonprofits. I also believe nonprofits should help local businesses. A cost effective way to give back to the community which also helps your business is to use an approach like giving SmallGyfts, a promo card with a discount off a future...
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I believe small businesses should give back to help local nonprofits. I also believe nonprofits should help local businesses. A cost effective way to give back to the community which also helps your business is to use an approach like giving SmallGyfts, a promo card with a discount off a future purchase and a small donation to your customer's favorite cause. They pick the cause, you get the credit for giving back. If they don't redeem the card for a nonprofit, it costs you nothing.
I support this effort. However, if we want to make a real difference this has to be an everyday activity, not just a once a year event.
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I support this effort. However, if we want to make a real difference this has to be an everyday activity, not just a once a year event.
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We give our customers a small donation, “small gift”, that they can give to their favorite cause when they buy our products or services using the SmallGyfts app. The app tracks every dollar given to every cause. Here is a view of the results https://my.smallgyfts.com/mydo...
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We give our customers a small donation, “small gift”, that they can give to their favorite cause when they buy our products or services using the SmallGyfts app. The app tracks every dollar given to every cause. Here is a view of the results https://my.smallgyfts.com/mydo...
Diane, I sent you a connection request with some more info. Click this link to add your nonprofits: https://www.smallgyfts.com/for...
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Diane, I sent you a connection request with some more info. Click this link to add your nonprofits: https://www.smallgyfts.com/for...
It’s overcoming previous bad relationships and outcomes. It’s opportunity loss, squared - having to spend your time undoing poor outcomes rather than being freed to pursue revenue, the problem you hired someone to fix getting bigger not better, and exhausting your limited funds. I’ve outsourced,...
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It’s overcoming previous bad relationships and outcomes. It’s opportunity loss, squared - having to spend your time undoing poor outcomes rather than being freed to pursue revenue, the problem you hired someone to fix getting bigger not better, and exhausting your limited funds. I’ve outsourced, and continue to do so for many services that have clear deliverables, but too many have yielded negative ROI.
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Use a tool like my.SmallGyfts.com to quickly exchange your business profile with the other people in the virtual or real world event. This allow you to display a QR code that others can scan to connect with you.
In a Zoom meeting, show your QR code, others scan so you’ve now instantaneously...
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Use a tool like my.SmallGyfts.com to quickly exchange your business profile with the other people in the virtual or real world event. This allow you to display a QR code that others can scan to connect with you.
In a Zoom meeting, show your QR code, others scan so you’ve now instantaneously created a two way connection with everyone in the meeting. Let each person share their code as they introduce themselves so at the end of the session, everyone is now connected to everyone else. Everyone leaves the meeting with the contact info and business profile of the people in the networking session so they can now start building a relationship and giving and getting referrals.
See more at https://www.alignable.com/ann-...
Great implementation of QR codes!!! Our platform, SmallGyfts, uses QR codes to allow shoppers to check in with business, redeem donation gift card and exchange their profiles with each other. We do use programable QR coded window decal and stickers that you can customize as desired. Here is a 90...
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Great implementation of QR codes!!! Our platform, SmallGyfts, uses QR codes to allow shoppers to check in with business, redeem donation gift card and exchange their profiles with each other. We do use programable QR coded window decal and stickers that you can customize as desired. Here is a 90 sec animated video on how this works for SmallGyfts.
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With COVID, business is definitely down but the positive for me is that it has allowed me to have more conversations with more people than I have than before the slowdown. I'm selling a lot less but learning a lot more. Hopefully, that will help me when things turn around.
Tools like...
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With COVID, business is definitely down but the positive for me is that it has allowed me to have more conversations with more people than I have than before the slowdown. I'm selling a lot less but learning a lot more. Hopefully, that will help me when things turn around.
Tools like Alignable, Zoom and Calendly have definitely helped me to more efficiently communicate with a wider audience and will remain part of my toolbox.
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Before asking for a review... 1) Do fantastic work that your customers can’t help but rave about. 2) Surprise and delight them by offering them a small donation to their favorite local cause. This show your customers that you not only care about them but you also love your community. They pick...
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Before asking for a review... 1) Do fantastic work that your customers can’t help but rave about. 2) Surprise and delight them by offering them a small donation to their favorite local cause. This show your customers that you not only care about them but you also love your community. They pick the cause, you get the credit. 3) A small donation is great PR for your business and motivates local churches, schools and nonprofits that benefit from the donations to tell their supporters about you. 4) Offer this reward for all your customer, not just for those writing a reviews and provide a link to the review sites to make it easy to do. The positive referrals and reviews will take care of themselves.
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Morris, let me try to answer your question from two perspectives: 1) Benefit to people in my network and 2) Benefit to me. 1) I’ve been able to give business to several of my Alignable connections by purchasing services that I’ve needed. Benefit for them range from $100s to several thousand...
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Morris, let me try to answer your question from two perspectives: 1) Benefit to people in my network and 2) Benefit to me. 1) I’ve been able to give business to several of my Alignable connections by purchasing services that I’ve needed. Benefit for them range from $100s to several thousand dollars. I think they would say that they have been successful on Alignable in at least finding business, if not growing their business.
2) While I cannot yet attribute any revenue directly to being on Alignable, it has help me to reach more prospects in a shorter time than other approaches that I’ve tried. It has helped me to refine and test my messaging and have meaningful conversations with businesses around the country. It has also been a good resource for learning from other businesses, again, faster than other sources that I’ve tried
It has not been quick and it is definitely not easy but I believe it has been worthwhile which is why I am a Premium member.
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