Larry WeidelMentor and Coach Empowering Million Dollar Earners

Part 1 - From Bad Swag To Brilliant Gifts with Millie Tadewaldt

3 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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Single-speaker excerpt from a YouTube video (Part 1 - From Bad Swag To Brilliant Gifts with Millie Tadewaldt). The speaker recounts a frustrating early experience buying company T-shirts—cumbersome process, lack of samples—and contrasts that with a later, positive experience giving thoughtful gifts at work that transformed relationships. These anecdotes motivated the speaker to start a gifting-related company called Brilliant.

In my varied career previous to starting Brilliant I had a few opportunities to buy swag branded merch in those roles and what struck me when I bought that stuff was how bad that experience was. I was in my mid-20s in my first role where I bought some company T shirts and I was an expert e commerce shopper and the way you had to buy company T shirts at my company was you had to call up this guy and he would make an appointment and there was a lot of paperwork and forms and he wouldn't let me keep the samples to try them on and I just had to trust that it was gonna work out okay and it felt really bad. And then a few years later I had a really good experience giving a couple gifts at work and what I found was giving the right gift to someone in the right moment really transformed that relationship. So those two experiences stuck with me when I found myself ready to start a company and that was the inspir.