Saturday, October 26, 2013

Ideas to help corporate gift giving this year!

The best 2 strategies for corporate clever gift giving at holiday seasonal time: send a gift with that is impressive and not gift cards and make yours the very first gift your patron or perspective clients or clientele will receive. Leading two goof ups for firm gift giving at holiday time are: Not getting the gift promptly enough and giving gift cards or gift certificates. Let's start with blunders.... Not planning/tardiness. By sending it late your gift gets mixed up with all the others in a pile or in the break room and individuals have a tendency to forget about what they got from who. The cards get spread out and in the haste and hustle and bustle in the days before Dec. 25 your gift is lost and you have lost money by now. Administrative assistants are typically in the position of giving the holiday corporate gifts and bosses, you need to hear this! brunch breakfast gift basketDon't come to your administrative assistant at the last minute and expect her or him to work miracles...lateness on your part should not be an crisis on their part. You are placing them in a really challenging situation to scavenge and locate last minute products or gifts and to get them mailed. Many times gift companies, especially holiday basket companies like Baskets by Rita in Aurora are flooded with last minute frantic requests. This year seems like a great one so don't be shocked if local and national basket and food companies run out of stock. Your secretary will be wasting time and spending way too much time on your late gift giving task and it not only will worry them out but take away from their normal duties. The remedy to last minute gift giving difficulties is to plan early. Give them a chance to make an order and get the gift at the price point you want to spend. Did you know that most individuals and companies who postpone end up spending a lot more than they had attended? The items they wanted are sold out and they have to take what is left even if it costs more. So the two downfalls or mistakes with mailing it late or the hassle itself and the cost of overspending and more importantly the less optimistic impact for your money. So what do you do? First of all in timeliness, give your administrative assistant a budget and time to make the order. Be sure it arrives as soon after Thanksgiving as possible to have that really positive effect at your clients and customers businesses. Secondly, fore go the gift card and gift certificate plan. Those have been famous in the past but in past years everyone gets and gives gift cards and they have lost their luster and affect. It also is the easiest way to go..it shows they weren't worth the time or energy or they were a last minute gift thought. Gift certificates to restaurants have worked in the past too except someone is now responsible to order the food and go get it. Choose a gift that comes with a joyful wow isn't that great or how nice or isn't that beautiful. These days people buy virtually what they want, so send a gift that comes with bling and a bow and the gift basket is probably your most effective. Check out local places where you can probably just go and pick them up to save shipping costs. In Denver or Colorado Baskets by Rita in Aurora is a good start.

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