Pack Up Your Gifts

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It's summer time, so why not reward your employees with corporate business gifts that they can use over the next few months? These promotional backpacks can be used for picnics, hiking, cycling, concerts, horseback riding and sporting events. They also include imprinted coolers with matching colored themes to give your employees a gift that sports your company colors. The bags features a large food compartment with ThermoGuard insulation and comes complete with forks, knives, plates, napkins, salt and pepper, a custom blanket tote, and one cutting board and imprinted bottle stopper. This is a great employee incentive idea because not only can your workers travel with these to various events, but the bags are made out of polyester, so they'll be sure to last for many years. I can't think of a bag with more accessories than this one!

Speakers Favor Umbrellas

The Center for Advanced Legal Studies at Suffolk University Law School provides continuing legal education (CLE) through free lectures and educational programs. A major contribution to the array of the professionals who continue to speak at these events is due to the promotional products they receive from Suffolk University.

Over the course of the summer, lecturers have received branded gifts such as custom pens and imprinted memory sticks, and those who keep coming back to the university say they prefer a fresh rotation of these types of practical items. One of the most appreciated gifts among CLE forums are promotional umbrellas, which makes sense because many of these speakers probably travel on a consistent basis. So if your business requires employees to do some heavy traveling, consider giving them branded umbrellas to show your appreciation for their hard work.

First Aid for Your Employees

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It's not easy to find a gift for your employees that will last them a lifetime, but a first-aid kit may be the closest thing possible. Promotional first aid kits are so dynamic because they can be kept in the car, home, or your favorite vacation getaway. What's most impressive about these products is that their normal price range is around $90.00 - $150.00, but if you buy them from a promotional products distributor they can be purchased for as low as $10.00!

Most medical kits are designed to treat the most critical injuries and always include essential supplies such as water, latex gloves, eye wash, bandages, and ice packs. Giving these to your employees as gifts will give them the sense that you genuinely care about their safety and traveling adventures. In fact, most promotional health care products are greatly appreciated by employees, as long as they are practical items that can be used both in and out of the house.

Who's The Boss? You Are.

Agron, Inc. is the exclusive accessory licensee for Adidas America and one of the largest suppliers of sports and children’s products to large retail chains. Each year, Agron sales representatives gather for three sales meetings, each with a theme or key message related either to a new technology or product to push in the upcoming quarter or a new sales technique to help the firm become more dynamic. The Agron team says reps are ten percent more likely to remember their message or pitch when message-related promotional products are used.

As a result, this past year the team selected an 11-ounce Budget Mug branded with this quarter’s “Who’s the boss?” message, which reminded them of the “World’s Best Boss” mug made famous by actor Steve Carrel in the hit show “The Office.” Both the team and staff enjoyed their new promotional mugs, which brought actor Steve Carrel to mind and helped the reps remember their message and meet sales goals for another quarter.

Welcome Your Employees

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There's nothing better than improving employee retention by starting your new workers off on the right foot. Anyone new on the staff will likely be ancy for their first day on the job and may be overwhelmed by adjusting to all of your businesses systems and procedures. Before they begin working, it would be a good idea to treat them with an employee gift basket. With items such as imprinted coffee mugs, promotional pens, and custom candy, your new employee will practical items that they can keep around the house or use in the office. Gift baskets can also be customized to showcase your company colors, confirming to new workers that your business has a tight-knit corporate culture with people that genuinely care for each other. Lastly, by having branded items at home, families and friends of these employees will be reassured that their friend or loved one is in good hands.

Wrigley Uses Promotional Recognition Clocks

When chewing gum powerhouse Wrigley reached its 5 billion dollar revenue goal, it still had the problem of finding the best way to reward its employees. After all, they are the reason Wrigley now has a hefty budget to work with. The challenge for the company was finding custom products to reward their staff with that was different from the run-of-the-mill promotional products. The decision was to give employees in the development areas of the company imprinted sphere Recognition Clocks. The clocks feature blue and silver global dials on one side and a custom photograph with an imprinted logo on the other side. These promotional clocks ended up being seen as a high-quality employee gift that pleased the workers and soluted their efforts in achieving a great milestone.

Cost-Efficient Rewards

The economy is showing signs of hope for 2010, but what about the rest of this year? According to research from BtoBonline.com, 43.7% of marketers will decrease their marketing budgets this year in response to the recession. This figure has increased from December, when only one-quarter of marketers said they planned to cut their marketing budgets this year. With decreased budgets comes constrained spending on promotional campaigns. That's why more businesses will be looking for less expensive promotional products and corporate gifts through
the rest of this year.

One solution to this problem is to seek out promotional items of high quality that are cheaper, but still provide practical functions on a consistent basis. A great example would be giving away promotional vineyard bottle stoppers. These are cost-efficient promotional products that can be distributed in large amounts at the office, corporate events, trade shows, or even through the mail. More importantly, they are effective for branding purposes because they stick around the household and are used continually to keep wine fresh after those special dinners and family gatherings. Even if your business may be heading towards a standstill in marketing spending, there should always be room for practical promotional campaigns that avoid running your budget dry.