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  "slug": "packed-with-purpose-2026-10-03t06-3",
  "company": "Packed with Purpose",
  "headline": "59% of gift recipients would rather get nothing than a generic gift.",
  "topic": "{Stash Edge — Packaging Play}",
  "source_name": "Yahoo Finance",
  "source_url": "https://finance.yahoo.com/small-business/articles/59-corporate-gift-recipients-rather-141800662.html",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Packaging Play}\n◆ GOLD · 2026 study with Harris Poll · Packed with Purpose\n\n59% of gift recipients would rather get nothing than a generic gift.\n\nCorporate gifting is not a channel for leftovers. It's a high-intent signal. The buyer is saying yes to your brand in front of someone else. If you treat that moment like a commodity, you waste it. The move is to build a gifting tier into your product — it's not a discount, it's a premium service. Make it clean, make it fast to order, and let your sales team use it as a close tool.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/li/packed-with-purpose-2026-10-03t06-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/packed-with-purpose-2026-10-03t06-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/packed-with-purpose-2026-10-03t06-3",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Packaging Play}\n◆ GOLD · 2026 study with Harris Poll · Packed with Purpose\n\n59% of gift recipients would rather get nothing than a generic gift.\n\nCorporate gifting is not a channel for leftovers. It's a high-intent signal. The buyer is saying yes to your brand in front of someone else. If you treat that moment like a commodity, you waste it. The move is to build a gifting tier into your product — it's not a discount, it's a premium service. Make it clean, make it fast to order, and let your sales team use it as a close tool.\n\nMy Stash Take on what it means for the rest of us →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/lh/packed-with-purpose-2026-10-03t06-3\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/packed-with-purpose-2026-10-03t06-3\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/packed-with-purpose-2026-10-03t06-3",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Packaging Play}\n◆ GOLD · 2026 study with Harris Poll · Packed with Purpose\n\n59% of gift recipients would rather get nothing than a generic gift.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/packed-with-purpose-2026-10-03t06-3",
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      "title": "59% of gift recipients would rather get nothing than a generic gift.",
      "body": "✍️ YOUR NOTE — write 2–3 lines to ONE person so they feel: \"this is about me… I could actually do this… I could make money from this.\" Energize them, make it yours. (This is the part that gets the opens.)\n[ your take… ]\n———\nHere is a real one you can run this week 👇\nPacked with Purpose's new 2026 study with Harris Poll found 59% of corporate gift recipients prefer to receive nothing rather than something that feels generic, per Yahoo Finance.\nHere's the cool part — the lever almost everyone misses (and you don't have to): if you sell any object that moves into a corporate gifting channel, the play is not to commoditize it — it's to offer a personalization or packaging tier that signals intent. Print the recipient's name, or include a custom insert with a brand story, or offer a branded box that arrives ready-to-gift with no assembly. Charge 20–30% more for this tier. The data says 59% of buyers will pay up for thoughtfulness. Test this on your B2B sales team first — let them gift your product to prospects with a custom message inserted. Measure close rates and deal size on accounts that received a personalized gift vs. a generic one.\nWhat that means for you: Corporate gifting is not a channel for leftovers. It's a high-intent signal. The buyer is saying yes to your brand in front of someone else. If you treat that moment like a commodity, you waste it. The move is to build a gifting tier into your product — it's not a discount, it's a premium service. Make it clean, make it fast to order, and let your sales team use it as a close tool.\nIf you make, sell, or gift anything with your name on it — this is yours to run. You can do this.\n(Real, not theory — Yahoo Finance: https://finance.yahoo.com/small-business/articles/59-corporate-gift-recipients-rather-141800662.html.)\n———\nOr — want it built FOR you? Your logo, your products, your own private room, priced and ready, in about five minutes. That's literally what we do →\nhttps://www.pops4.com/vip?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=stash",
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