Tomorrow is National Martini Day, but today is National Splurge Day (or National $plurge Day).  It’s probably fitting that a drinking holiday comes the day after a huge spending holiday.  You will likely need a drink after the fortune that you spend, or at least think about spending, on a great day of stimulating consumption.

I asked a few of our team members what they would splurge on today.

Martha's splurge- a vacation ending in Savannah, Georgia

“A 2 week vacation along the East Coast – New York to Savannah, Georgia, visiting museums, historical sites, etc.”  – Martha Kirkpatrick, Director, Member Services

“Haha I will try to think of something other than the iPad… although let’s be honest!” – Amanda Butterworth, Senior Director, Creative Services

“I would upgrade the rest of my flights in 2010 to First Class.  I might also buy some new Ferragamo shoes so I’m flying in style.”  – Yours truly (Alexandra)

“Prada shoes.” – Andrea Gibson, Advisor

Amanda's splurge- An Apple iPad. Photo: wired.com

On this spending day, I also started thinking about what I would really want to splurge on for Gibson Design Management or any of our other companies. 

The answer came to me fairly quickly.  Our team loves learning; it makes it a really fun environment that everyone gets so passionate about learning new things and then applying them to make our company better and to make our clients more successful.

If I had to splurge today on something on behalf of the company, I would take our whole team to more conferences.  I particularly would put SXSWi (South by Southwest Interactive), any of GasPedal’s Word of Mouth Marketing Supergenius conferences, Inc Magazine’s GROWCO conference, and TWTRCON NY.

Without sounding too cheesy on a fairly cheesy holiday, education is the gift that keeps on giving.  So would it really be that big of a splurge?  (I guess if we were all to fly first class, like my splurge, it would be).

What would you splurge on for your business?

Author: Alexandra Gibson

Alexandra is the CEO of Gibson Design Management and Managing Partner of interior design firm, Gibson Design Group. When she's not busy trying to build an empire, you can find Alexandra riding a horse, giving back to the community, playing with her Scottie, McCord, or drinking a martini (preferably not all four at once).

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