Zest

Zest

Software Development

New York, NY 925 followers

Building the future of corporate gifting 🎁

About us

Zest is the first-of-its-kind corporate gifting platform empowering ecommerce brands to scale their gifting channel and tap this $300 billion market directly on their website. With features like white labeled storefronts, easy personalization, and intuitive multi-ship checkout, Zest makes it ridiculously simple for eager gifters to shop and send one or tons of gifts in minutes. Modern corporate gifting tech makes it possible for brands to forgo the friction of forms and phone calls, convert more corporate clients, and grow gifting into one of their most lucrative sales channels yet. Ready to change the gifting game like Milk Bar, Brightland, Levain Bakery, Vosges Haut-Chocolat, and more trailblazing brands? Let’s unwrap what’s possible.

Website
https://zest.co
Industry
Software Development
Company size
2-10 employees
Headquarters
New York, NY
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2021

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    925 followers

    📣 NEW BRAND PARTNER 📣 Whomst amongst us hasn't been absolutely seduced by the sweet waft of a freshly baked cookie? Warm, soft, melty — objectively irresistible. 🍪 🤤 And now you can spread that gift of ultimate indulgence far and wide with our latest Zest partner, Insomnia Cookies! Since 2003, the crew at Insomnia Cookies has been meeting America's cookie needs with a special penchant for the late-night crowd. Borne from a University of Pennsylvania dorm room, this cookie shop has since baked up more than 200 brick-and-mortar stores, launched nationwide shipping, and become ridiculously easy to send to one or tons of people in a single checkout with Zest. Peep Insomnia Cookie's latest innovation and march toward total cookie domination in its sweet new gift shop 👉 https://lnkd.in/gjA2wwhW #cookiegifts #corporategifts #cookiesorbust

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    📣 NEW BRAND PARTNER 📣 Cacao connoisseurs, rejoice! We are so lucky to be able to shout about our latest partner Dandelion Chocolate! For more than 10 years, the team at Dandelion has been lifting up the craft of chocolate making to its highest form. With full-hearted devotion to letting the flavor of the cocoa take over tastebuds, their catalog is outfitted with toffee, gâteau basques, bars, truffles, and more that'll make your mouth water. (We suggest moving your fingers as fast as you can and gifting their chocolate-dipped fig truffles to everyone you want to impress ASAP.) From everyone at Zest, we're so excited to see all the places these simply perfect bean-to-bar gifts will go. 🍫 Check out their snazzy new self-service gifting storefront right here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gHxtWZ2m #onlinegift #chocolatelover #ineedthisinmymouthrightnow

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    Clif Family has Big Plans to make this the best holiday season *ever.* 👄🍷👍 But in a world where pretty much every online brand is doing the same thing, how is the team gonna pull this off? Easy — Clif Family has been paying attention to its customers and crafting a strategy just for them. The team is bringing in a hip look, thoughtful holiday bundles, trendy collabs, and a gifting experience that doesn't make people want to weep. (And according to them, you don't even need a brain to know that a better gifting experience is a good idea.) 🙅♂️ 🧠 Creep on the rest of their holiday playbook (and maybe copy it for your own store) right here 👉👉👉 https://lnkd.in/gT2ud6uC

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    925 followers

    Have you explored many of the multi-ship checkout options that have been around? Yeesh, it's rough out there. 😬 The tools and apps you tried in the past are clunky, outdated, hard to set up, harder to use...the reviews say it all. The people have spoken. And the people are *not* happy. A lot of our partners have used apps like that before. And those bad experiences almost had them throw in the towel and concede to the idea that multi-ship just couldn't be done well in ecommerce. Luckily, they talked with us. A beacon of online gifting hope. And they've never looked back. A great multi-ship checkout experience is a savior for shoppers *and* the internal teams tasked with processing hefty gift orders. We made a platform that's intuitive, on-brand, user-friendly, and high-converting (aka none of the rotten bits from the apps of yore). See why Zest's multi-ship checkout is what dreams are made of >>> https://lnkd.in/gREkDDUu

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    925 followers

    Couldn't have said it better ourselves, Clif Family 🍷 Gifting has truly *never* been easier.

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    Gifting and Subscription Expert | Sharing a taste of Napa Valley one gift and subscription box at a time!

    The holiday season can be stressful, but your gifting doesn't have to be. Head to the link below to kick-off your easiest holiday gifting season ever! (And take advantage of our best shipping deals while you're at it 😉 ) https://lnkd.in/g5768VCW

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    925 followers

    Stop pumping all your resources into Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Heck, don't even narrow your focus on Cyber 5 at all. If you really want to rake in the most revenue this holiday season, think outside that teensy, tiny five-day window. Heaps of people have their holiday shopping underway already, and if you're not hyping up your gifts, promos, and more, you're missing them. See why this unseasonably early shopping is trending and how you can leverage the new normal 👉👉👉 https://lnkd.in/gZiBtxT6 #ecommercetrends #onlinegifts #holidayshopping

    • Two charts showing when consumers start shopping for the holidays (41% start in October or earlier) and when they finish shopping (58% finish their holiday shopping in December).
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    There are *a lot* of tactics, tips, and hot takes on LinkedIn. 🗣🗣🗣 Should you listen to all of them? No way. Should you listen to us? Well, duh, but only because we're dishing some facts riiiiiiight now: 👉 Gen Z and millennials are the least likely to physically go into a store to shop. They are digital-first consumers, friends. 👉 By 2029, 97% of consumers are going to be shopping online in the U.S. So, pretty much everyone with an internet connection and a credit card. 👉 The U.S. gifting market has grown beefier than $1 trillion, with corporate gifting tacking on another $300 billion and counting. 👉 Google searches for "online gift" went up 80% in 2020, and the year-round motivations for gifting haven't cooled off. More people are buying more gifts, and they're buying those gifts online. We won't reveal any spoilers in this post, but you can read up on the biggest opportunity for ecommerce brands in 2025 right here (hint: it leans into all the data we just dropped above) 👉👉👉 https://lnkd.in/gYa9SwFM #ecommerce #onlinegifting #ecommercetrends

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    925 followers

    The time is nigh. Gird your gifts.

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    13,298 followers

    Somehow it is already October...? Thanksgiving is around the corner and December is knocking on the door. If you want to ensure you close out the year with your team feeling valued, we’d love to help. On https://lnkd.in/eTCfcAw7 you can: - Choose from our iconic cookie gift bundles 🍪 - Easily upload recipient addresses 🏠 - Pre-order for your ideal delivery date 🚚 - Add personalized gift notes 🗒 If you’ve got any questions or need extra support on a special order we’re here to help, contact us at corporategifts@levainbakery.com 

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    levainbakery.com

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    925 followers

    We are beyond jazzed to announce a new addition to the squad! Say “Hey!” to Calley O'Neil! Calley joins Zest as our Head of Customer Success! She’s stuffed to the gills with kindness, wit, and empathy, which pretty much makes her the best person on the planet to help our brand partners grow their gifting channel. She’s been elbow-deep in Zest the past couple weeks meeting our partners, learning about users, and already putting together A+ assets, insights, and inspo to help everyone stay on the best path in their gifting journey. Join us in welcoming this absolute gift of a human to the zesty fold!

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    📣 NEW BRAND PARTNER 📣 Have you ever wondered what chocolate would look like if it was art? (Or what art would look like if it was chocolate?!) Me too, friend. Me too. Well, it's time to turn off your brain and stop wondering, because our latest brand partner has answered all our questions and curiosities. Kate Weiser Chocolate is the latest brand to team with Zest (and join the internet's roster of most giftable goodies). 🍫 🎨 🤤 These high-quality, high-beauty chocolates are the perfect fit for any gifting occasion. Bright, fun, delicious — what more could you want? If you were hoping these gems are also ridiculously easy to send to one or tons of people via text, link, email, or snail mail (complete with personalized gift notes), then Kate Weiser's new Zest-powered storefront has truly made all your wishes come true. Get down with your delicious self and order a stack of the prettiest chocolate on planet Earth for everyone in the office ASAP 👉 https://lnkd.in/gFfxvTXY

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