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Karma launches new way to send gifts

2012-02-28
my name is Lee London I'm the co-founder of karma and with my other co-founder Ben Lewis we're launching a brand new social commerce experience tonight to make it incredibly easy to send a gift and a thoughtful message in the moment when you hear about an important event in a friend family or colleagues life with karma we break beyond the noise of what's going on in your social networks and we highlight the important birthdays celebrations new jobs engagements babies anything that you might not want to miss karma will highlight right here in your sort of dashboard so amy is a good friend who I know has recently changed jobs and gotten a promotion so I'm going to send her congratulations note so I'll go ahead and choose a a gift for Amy I think the moleskine notebooks are a great choice but here's where we come to a place in gifting that's hard a sort of analysis paralysis which of these notebooks should I send Amy I'll go ahead and let Amy choose which notebooks you'd like I can search from Amy from our karma single search box that combines all your contacts from your address book and from facebook add to the gift we can write a card for Amy arrived from the phone and select and browse different browsing closings and greetings and I could also schedule the gift to arrive SE on the morning of her birthday or 20 minutes before an important job interview but i'll go ahead and send it instantly because i know she got her job today and that's how easy it was within 60 seconds amy will receive an SMS notifying her of her gift from me this is Amy's phone and she's just received a gift from Lee Linden via karma so all she needs to do is touch the link this can be opened on any mobile device that has a modern browser including a Blackberry or a windows phone or an Android phone or an iPhone she reads my card read from her phone the bow unwraps and right then in there Amy sees the moleskine notebook my gift and she's offered the choice of style just like that amy has received a gift on her mobile phone chosen her exact variety of product entered her shipping address and now it's asking her to enter a thank you note so right her phone she can send me a thank you have a post to my facebook wall or sent to me via SMS let's hit next and used that message and just like that amy has actually received a gift read her card and sent to thank you straight from her mobile phone one of the big pains points of gift-giving is really managing the communication winning someone you know right now and letting that recipient respond with a thank you karma takes care of all of that but what happens in the real world when someone doesn't enjoy their gift or want that gift well there's a lot of waste and so with Karma give all of our gift recipients 24 hours to swap their gift and when we do we present them with a list of choices of other products or services in the similar price range and so right here Amy can go ahead and swap and she can choose a different a different style notebook she can choose a different product altogether including rent the runway or a spa package but we're very proud about is Amy can actually donate the value of this gift to our charity partner this month is charity water and if Amy would like she can donate the entire value of this product straight the charity water all the while from my phone I was able to track Amy status so i got to see when she opened her card when she accepted her gift i'll see you when it shipped and i'll see what it's delivered and like that karma becomes a form of communication between one person or another one person who wants to share that important moment the other person who has received this this gift and wants to say thank you
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