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  "company": "Packed with Purpose",
  "headline": "59% of corporate gift recipients prefer nothing over generic, new Harris Poll finds",
  "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◆ PLATINUM · Corporate gifting sentiment study · Packed with Purpose\n\n59% of corporate gift recipients prefer nothing over generic, new Harris Poll finds.\n\nCorporate gifting is how a brand can move volume without competing on price. But only if the gift doesn't feel like it came from a machine. The winning play here is not to outpace the cheap bulk vendors — it's to let a buyer customize the gift in a way that feels intentional. A personalized note, a choice of color, a regional flavor — something that says 'this is for you,' not 'we bought 5,000 of these.'\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-2026-10-10t21-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/li/packed-with-purpose-2026-10-10t21-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/li/packed-with-purpose-2026-10-10t21-2",
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      "alt_body": "{Stash Edge — Packaging Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Corporate gifting sentiment study · Packed with Purpose\n\n59% of corporate gift recipients prefer nothing over generic, new Harris Poll finds.\n\nCorporate gifting is how a brand can move volume without competing on price. But only if the gift doesn't feel like it came from a machine. The winning play here is not to outpace the cheap bulk vendors — it's to let a buyer customize the gift in a way that feels intentional. A personalized note, a choice of color, a regional flavor — something that says 'this is for you,' not 'we bought 5,000 of these.'\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-2026-10-10t21-2\n→ Your Stash Room — your logo, live pricing, ships blind: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/r/lh/packed-with-purpose-2026-10-10t21-2\n→ Proper imprints, done right at POPS4: https://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/s/lh/packed-with-purpose-2026-10-10t21-2",
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      "body": "{Stash Edge — Packaging Play}\n◆ PLATINUM · Corporate gifting sentiment study · Packed with Purpose\n\n59% of corporate gift recipients prefer nothing over generic, new Harris Poll finds.\n\nMy Stash Take →\nhttps://pops4-stash-edge.billing-010.workers.dev/l/t/bs/packed-with-purpose-2026-10-10t21-2",
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      "title": "59% of corporate gift recipients prefer nothing over generic, new Harris Poll finds",
      "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 2026 study found that 59% of U.S. corporate gift recipients would rather receive nothing 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 physical products into corporate gifting, the game shifted from 'how many units can we move' to 'how do we make this feel chosen, not inventory.' A mid-size brand that builds a corporate gifting program around curation, personalization, or a real story beats the vendor still selling bulk SKUs with screen-printed logos. Start by asking your corporate buyers: 'What would make your gift feel like it came from someone who knows the person, not a procurement spreadsheet?' Then build a bundle or a customization option around that answer.\nWhat that means for you: Corporate gifting is how a brand can move volume without competing on price. But only if the gift doesn't feel like it came from a machine. The winning play here is not to outpace the cheap bulk vendors — it's to let a buyer customize the gift in a way that feels intentional. A personalized note, a choice of color, a regional flavor — something that says 'this is for you,' not 'we bought 5,000 of these.'\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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