Addressing customer gifting at scale

Sara Rodell, Loop and Tie

Today’s guest had an idea that I freaking love.

It’s one thing to buy a meaningful gift for one person that you know really well, but how do you give gifts to hundreds of people and have that same affect?

It seems like a problem that can’t really be solved with technology but Sara Rodell found a way to do exactly that.

Sara is the founder of Loop and Tie, customer gifting platform builds long-lasting relationships – at scale.

Sara Rodell

Loop and Tie

Sara Rodell is the founder of Loop and Tie, customer gifting platform builds long-lasting relationships – at scale.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner on the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. Get this fricking idea out. Maybe this is not the best way to introduce your idea to fricken idea Sarah, but I love it.

Sara: Makes it sound really important and serious.

Andrew: It’s such a great idea. Here’s what Sarah Dell did she, uh, problem where she wanted to give out meaningful gifts to people. And she encountered the same roadblock that many of us have, which is you could send one really nice gift to somebody that you really know well. But if you want to scale that to multiple people, you’re basically sending out coffee mugs and then the person who gets the coffee mug is kind of stuck with your stupid coffee.

Pretending that they care about it, but in reality, just another thing in their house. So she said, how can we make this problem go away? How do we make the gift giving...

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