The team at eGifter has been busy these last months. We launched CoachGifter.com, the first in a series of group gifting websites to honor the people that touch our lives every day. Also new on the market is a series of unique specialty Choice Cards. While there are over a dozen, we’ll give a shout out to the Black Friday Choice Card, featuring a 5% discount on gift cards. There’s also RewardsExpress.com, featuring cool tools for users that need corporate rewards in a hurry. We’re crystal clear that ours is the business of generosity and appreciation. In that spirit, we offer this word of thanks on Thanksgiving to honor our customers, employees and partners.

A Word of Thanks on Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is just a few days away. What better time to express our gratitude to each and every one of you.  

Shoppers and Gifters

Thank you for trusting us to deliver gifts to friends and family. That’s some serious special cargo. Helping you celebrate birthdays, weddings, graduations and new babies is our privilege. Your gifts brought happiness to countless Moms, Dads, Grandparents, Children, Teachers, Coaches, Newlyweds and Clergy. You love to shop online and we are grateful to serve you. You are the lifeblood of our existence.

Gift Recipients

Thank you for the leap of faith you took by entering the world of digital gifting. Many of you were new to this experience and received a gift card by email or text for the first time. Please know that the person who gifted you was highly intended. They uploaded an instant video expressing heartfelt greetings. Or, they uploaded that photo knowing you’d love it. Plus, they wrote a personal message that probably hit just the right note. Perusing our extensive catalog of great stores and restaurants, they tried to pick the one you’d love most. We appreciate their trust. We appreciate your willingness to experience something new.

Our Team and Our Partners

We have the greatest team and partners in the world. Their efforts create the best digital marketplace in the world. There is no better experience for giving (or receiving) a warm, personal gift. Our gratitude is extended to the hundreds of companies that allow us to deliver their gift cards. Thanks also to all of our payment partners including Credit Card Issuers, PayPal, Venmo, Skrill, Click To Pay Apple Pay AND a vast array of cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin and Shiba Inu.

Our doors are always open and we’d love to hear from you. Reach us at support.eGifter.com any time to let us know what’s on your mind. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

With each passing day, the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic wreaks more and more havoc on our society, putting lives at stake and our country at economic risk. But in the face of it all, we’re also seeing good, old fashioned American Spirit rise to battle the blaze. Every day at the stroke of 7pm, people are stepping away from their living rooms and into the streets. Their cheers and thanks are directed at the healthcare workers who put their own lives in harm’s way caring for the sick and suffering, In our own response to the nation’s call for help, the eGifter team quickly conceptualized, developed and launched a solution that is having a dramatic, healing effect: OperationMainStreet.com. As a national initiative with local roots, Operation Main Street is an emergent technology solution offering real help to real people. Through the combined power of both search engine and gift card technologies, the Operation Main Street platform adds an economic spending boost to local communities and neighborhoods across the United States. Operation Main Street is a uniquely designed local business directory where search requests automagically return a list of stores in selected zip codes that serve *you* and *your* community. Read on to learn how it works and to see how good neighbors like you can literally save livelihoods in your own backyard. And, in turn, through spending boons through gift card sales, local businesses and organizations can stay in business to serve the community that loves them.

OperationMainStreet.com: A Free Searchable Local Business Directory Making Gift Cards Accessible

As a tech company literally located on Main Street (Huntington, NY), we feel the pain experienced by small businesses everywhere. Making sure neighborhood businesses can be easily found by local residents who want to save their favorite shops and restaurants is the promise delivered by the powerhouse business directory at OperationMainStreet.com. Together, we’ll endeavor toward the better days that lie ahead.

Neighbors: Save Your Favorite Local Restaurants and Shops

At this precarious time in our nation’s history, we’ve all reached the same conclusion: We must do our collective part to help small business owners in our towns and villages stay solvent, pay their rent and taxes, and employ salaried workers. Helping small businesses stay afloat and feed their own families is the task at hand, which will in turn empower them to pay the local taxes on which our towns depend. Keeping businesses going is a moral and financial imperative. It’s the only way that we, the people, will maintain access to food, essentials and services upon which we depend to keep our homes and families safe, well and active. Search local stores in the directory. 

Read more on: OperationMainStreet.com

Never before has the phrase ‘Think Global, Buy Local” meant so much. With today’s stay at home mandate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, communities across the nation are struggling to keep their local shops and restaurants afloat until normal life resumes and beyond. Consumer spending is down and business mortality is up — a trend that can only be neutralized from a grassroots, local relief effort. That’s where eGifter innovation comes in. Gift cards are our lifeblood and we’ve found a way to provide real solutions in the ways that only we can. Thanks to a new initiative under the Operation Main Street umbrella, we warmly welcome LongIsland.com to the eGifter family. Now, Long Islanders can search local.egifter.com to find nearby restaurants, shops, studios, academies, barbers, beauty stores, coffee shops, music stores (and more!) The idea is to empower consumers to easily locate and shop at stores in local Long Island neighborhoods from the comfort of their home by searching a local directory of companies to find what they need nearby. We’ve engineered a way for Long Islanders to save the small businesses they love while keeping their homes stocked and their families fed. Introducing the Operation Main Street Local Business Directory.

Operation Main Street Local Business Directory

For businesses not yet on the searchable directory, signing up is simple, quick and free. 

Read more here: OperationMainStreet.com

How Gift Cards Can Help Unlock the Human Spirit

As the COVID-19 virus pandemic makes its way through our world both literally and figuratively, the eGifter team is hard at work finding ways to be of service. Please check back regularly for news and updates as we find and share ways to help people stick together through thick and thin. While some may argue that gift cards can’t save the world, we believe they can play an important role in our connected lives physically, socially and emotionally. It is in crises like these that the human spirit is truly tested and, in in our experience, displayed.

The eGifter team is hunkered down now, developing and delivering innovative ideas, products and services rooted in merchant and retail gift cards. Because the items sold at these establishments contribute to health, well-being, safety and community connectedness, we’ll have a lot to say and share.  Over the coming weeks and beyond, eGifter’s thought leadership helps people in real ways, both tangible and inspirational.

Here is a preview of some of the stories and posts ahead, where we will:

• Suggest ways to stay engaged in the face of social distancing
• Share ideas to help friends and family weather this storm 
• Propose specific items and strategies for the whole family, so that seniors, parents and children feel cared for and protected 
• Post updates about our efforts to support humanitarian and charitable organizations, public and private, cross-denominational, for all
• Offer special discounts and packages for essentials like safety, health, food, shelter
• Take some time for laughter, entertainment and levity such that the lighter side of life shines through

We thank you for reading and sharing the eGifter Human Spirit Series. Gift cards sold at the eGifter marketplace bundle goodness into each delivery. It’s our sincere hope and commitment to surface strategies and approaches that not only help you pragmatically, but can be told as stories that illustrate the heart and resilience of people across the land.

Please share your uplifting stories with us at support.egifter.com.

Together, we can make it. The eGifter family is right with you. 

#egifterstories #egifterhumanspirit

True to our brand promise of strengthening connections between people and their families & friends through gifting, shopping and random acts of generosity, we’re particularly excited about the reboot of our blog, eGifter Stories, as it coincides with World Kindness Day. 

We see eGifter Stories as a place to share special moments, heartwarming recollections and feel-good tales focused on positivity, humanity and the common connections that bind us. We hope you’ll visit regularly and more importantly, that you will personally experience the kinds of joy shared here. The retail brands you see highlighted here are widely recognized and among the hundreds of digital gift card choices available at eGifter.com.

Our hope is that you will be touched, moved and inspired to share stories of your own.  

• Where were you at the time?
• What were the circumstances?
• What do you remember most vividly?
• What difference did it make in your life?
• How did it impact the person that received it?
• Tell us all about it. 🙂

eGifter Stories is meant for you if…

You love celebrating holidays all year long and take extra delight in festivities like decorating, cooking, gathering…and shopping

You write heartfelt love notes in birthday cards & social posts. You get weepy during champagne (or grape juice) toasts

You appreciate getting the best deals, deepest discounts and values for your shopping dollar, whether in-store or online 

You love swag, you set fashion trends and you’ll go to great lengths to stay in-the-know when it comes to shopping and gifting

You are time-challenged and/or seek to conquer gifting procrastination — nothing less than a personal and wonderful gift will do

Your inner geek compels you toward awesome technology tools that improve your life with fun, convenience, savings and love

Here’s what you can look forward to in eGifter Stories:

• Heartwarming, meaningful, engaging stories of connection surrounding a shopping or gifting experience
• The opportunity to contribute to the community by sharing your own story. Let us hear from you!  #egifterstories
• Gifting ideas to expand your world in ways you haven’t considered
• Notices about special deals at eGifter.com you would not want to miss

eGifter Stories portrays fictional dramatizations based on real events drawn from customer accounts of their gifting experiences. If you have a story to share, we’re listening. We may just feature it — so others may be inspired to create and enjoy meaningful moments of their own.  

Rules of Engagement: Kindness & Respect

We invite you to join the community of storytellers and readers, where care runs rampant and magical moments are brought to life. We welcome your thoughts, comments, and shares. Please stay on topic and express yourself with kindness and respect. We promise to do the same! Please know that we’ll remove any content that does not fit into our space.

Thank you for joining our storytelling community. We’re excited to be with you. 

Sincerely,
Team eGifter