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F*CK YOUR MARKETING BUDGET – DROP IT AND WATCH WHAT HAPPENS

dare you to do this

I dare you to replace your entire marketing budget with a gifting budget.

Yeah, you heard me right. Scrap those Facebook ads. Delete those email sequences. And for the love of God, stop making those cringey LinkedIn videos.

The Power of Physical Product

My friend Steven Borrelli, Founder & CEO at Cuts Clothing always said "shirts on peoples backs. it's that simple." Get your product out to the world and let those customers become super fans and advocates.

And he's right. There's something magical that happens when someone physically experiences your product. It creates a connection that no Facebook ad can replicate.

The Feat Gift Revolution

Here's something I've never shared publicly before. When I was building Feat Clothing, we had a secret weapon that supercharged our growth.

We hired a full-time employee whose ONLY job was to strategically gift our products. That's it. Their entire role was finding the right people, sending them our ridiculously comfortable clothes, and nurturing those relationships.

And guess what? During the periods when we were gifting the most aggressively, we experienced the fastest growth we'd ever seen.

Not when we were spending the most on Facebook ads. Not when we were optimizing our email sequences. Not when we were launching fancy new products.

When we were GIFTING.

But here's the cold, hard truth – gifting at scale was a logistical nightmare. One full-time employee could only handle so much. There were physical limits to how many relationships one person could manage.

That's exactly why I'm so passionate about SARAL. This platform lets you find untapped influencers, automate outreach, manage relationships, track performance, and handle payments all under one roof.

What took our full-time employee 40+ hours per week can now be done in a fraction of the time. And the results? You can 10X what we were doing at Feat – with fewer resources and better tracking.

The ROI That Shocked Even Me

Let me hit you with the data that blew my mind: The average ROAS on SARAL is 5.12x with a median of 7.68x.

When we were running our gifting program at Feat, we saw similar returns – but we were limited by our human bandwidth. With SARAL, those limitations disappear.

What Made Our Gifting Program Work (And How SARAL Does It Better)

At Feat, our gifting success came down to three things:

  1. Finding the right people – not just big influencers, but the perfect brand fit

  2. Building authentic relationships – treating them like humans, not marketing channels

  3. Tracking what worked – so we could double down on our winners

SARAL's Creator Relationship Management system handles all of this and more. You'll never miss a birthday, important task, or follow-up again with their detailed conversation history and email management.

From Full-Time Employee to Full-Scale Automation

Think about this: We dedicated an entire salary to gifting at Feat because it worked so damn well.

Now with SARAL, you get all the benefits without the overhead. No more manual screenshotting or content hunting. SARAL automatically detects when influencers post and tracks the content, letting you request UGC rights right in the platform.

You're essentially getting a superhuman gifting specialist for a fraction of the cost.

Betting The Company On Relationships

When we were facing tough times at Feat, we'd often cut other marketing channels before touching our gifting budget. That's how valuable it was.

What if you applied that same mindset to your business? SARAL helps you build authentic friendships with creators – the kind that turn into long-term brand advocates.

Your Competitive Moat Is Community, Not Ads

In today's market, your true competitive advantage isn't your ad budget – it's your community. With SARAL, you can capitalize on site traffic and turn influential customers into ambassadors through streamlined application forms, approval processes, and easy product seeding.

If you want to experience the same growth I saw at Feat (and beyond), here's your next move:

  1. Head over to Saral here

  2. Let the SARAL team know I sent you, and they'll roll out the red carpet + give you an exclusive extended free trial

  3. Watch your marketing ROI explode while your competitors keep battling rising ad costs

Stop gambling your marketing budget on algorithms that change every week. Start investing in relationships that compound over time.

What's stopping you now?

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