Employee Incentive Gift of the Week: New Year Resolution Gifts

The New Year is upon us. With the coming of the new year, so comes the arrival of new year's resolutions. Many of your employees will be looking to get in shape.

There are many ways that you can reward you employees in the new year by giving them rewards and incentives that will help them towards their fitness goals.

Products like branded StayFit personal fitness kits can help encourage your employees to continue striving towards weight loss or any other fitness goals they may have. You can even hold an in-office contest. Whoever loses the most weight in a month gets rewarded with the customized personal fitness kit. This will not only encourage your employees to get healthy but will also encourage them to stick with their new years resolutions.

These branded StayFit personal fitness kits can be brought to the gym, used at home, or even at the office. Either way your employees will stick with their fitness goals and you will get maximum brand exposure.

Case Study: Company Ensures Smooth Transition With Promotional Products

Challenge: To aid organization within recently merged companies.

A large amount of confusion and disorganization often arises within companies during mergers and acquisitions. Employees often don't know whom to contact within the new company regarding HR issues such as health care, retirement, etc. When one manufacturing company acquired its competitor and moved both companies into one location, they needed a way to alleviate confusion and worries among personnel.

Solution: An imprinted mousepad containing new departmental phone numbers for each employee.
The manufacturing company developed a mouse pad that featured the new company name and logo, location information, and departmental phone numbers. Each employee received a promotional mouse pad for their desk, which kept useful information close by in case the employees had any questions about new arrangements within the company.

Result: Employees appreciated the gift and were relieved to have the information in a convenient spot.

The employees felt relieved to know who to call for their HR issues, and the transition during the acquisition was very smooth for all parties involved. Employees were especially glad to know that the company was concerned about their well-being and wanted to address important issues that would make life easier for them.(Via: The Promo Know-How Zone)

Employee Incentive Gift: USB-Powered Cup Warmer

The best employee incentive gifts are the promotional items that get a lot of use. Having an employee gift that is used consistently not only looks great on your employees desk but will continually remind your employee that they achieved something in your office.

Branded USB-Powered Cup Warmers can serve that purpose. Electric promotional cup warmers plug into your computer's USB port to provide a hotplate that keeps coffee, tea and soup warm for hours. An additional USB port is built into the side, allowing for use of all USB ports while using the cup warmer.

Promotional USB-powered cup warmers will also impress any clients that may visit you or your employees. Since they are branded with your company name and logo they look very professional.

Case Study: Promotional-Products-Turned-Contest-Gifts Improve Employee Morale and Increase Productivity at Pelican Products

Challenge: How to reward employees for a job well done—beyond the typical "employee of the month" awards

Pelican Products, a firm specializing in watertight protective cases, knows that a happy employee is a productive employee. And that's why they instituted an internal contest by which factory workers win points and earn prizes for maintaining certain levels of productivity, enforcing safety procedures and meeting other criteria. But the Pelican staff didn't want to give hum-drum certificates or "employee of the month" awards; they wanted appealing rewards that would make working for Pelican more enjoyable and fun.

Solution: Select hearty, useful outdoor-type products employees want to win

The Pelican team contacted ePromos for help with its rewards strategy, and to help them select the right types of convenient yet functional products for use in their contest rewards program. Because many of Pelican's factories draw employees from small towns, we focused on products that would appeal to hearty blue-collar sensibilities: folding chairs, barbeque gift sets, coolers, urban survival kits and portable grills were just a few of the products that ultimately made the list.

Result: Morale and productivity, up; boredom and monotony, down!

Since instituting its now-quarterly contest, Pelican reports decreases in both its workers compensation and employee turnover. Employees enjoy participating each month; the program helps strengthen bonds between employees and employer while breaking up the monotony typical of factory jobs. Pelican management is pleased with the program and its results—and the proof is that the program continues today and that Pelican continues to choose ePromos for their employee rewards and promotional products.

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Incentive Tip: The Importance of Incentive Gifts for Traveling Employees

Employees who consistently travel for your business deserve recognition for all their hard work. With them constantly on the move, having travel luggage and garment bags in hand would help promote your brand.

Promotional luggage has a very large imprint area which guarantees maximum exposure. Even if your customized luggage consists only of a carry-on bag it can provide fellow travelers with a glimpse of your tagline.

There are other ways in which you can reward your traveling employees for doing such a fantastic job. Giving customized business card cases can help when they are meeting with important clients. Having business card cases with your company name and logo will also help your employees that are away feel the tie to the home office.

Employee Incentive Gift: Ice Scrapers

With the cooler winter months upon us, a great idea for a handy employee gift is a promotional ice scraper. They're great because they're:

Inexpensive
When money is tight, an ice scraper can easily fit into a budget of any size. Since they come in a variety of styles, from the compact to the luxurious, you're bound to find one that's affordable for you.

Useful
In snowy areas, an ice scraper comes in handy throughout the winter. Plus, since it's always in the car it's a great way to remind employees of your brand during their commute or when they're on the road. If you're in a car-related industry, like tow companies or gas stations, there's no excuse not to use them!

A Message of Helpfulness
Imprinting your company name and logo onto an ice scraper will reinforce a message of helpfulness and improve people's attitudes toward the .

If you want to give out an item that's both popular and effective, be sure to invest into promotional ice scrapers!

Case Study: New Hire

Jam-packed Employee Welcome Kit Cuts New Hire Turnover by 50% for EarthLink

Challenge: How to reduce employee churn across multiple company locations

If your company is spread across the country, and if new hire churn seems to be spiraling out of control, you might consider whether or not your new hires have ever embraced—or been embraced by—the corporate culture.

EarthLink faced that very same situation: with offices across the nation, it wasn’t always easy for new employees to feel connected to the broader EarthLink family. And, EarthLink knew, if new hires aren’t feeling like part of the family, they’re that much more likely to leave.

Solution: Hug new hires with special “welcome” gifts—before day one begins!

Since people are more likely to be enthused and excited about their jobs if they feel appreciated and valued, we customized a new hire kit that now surprises new employees at home a day or two before they begin their new jobs. The eye-catching kit includes:

A warm welcome letter from EarthLink’s CEO expressing the company’s commitment to its employees

Loads of branded goodies for the home and office — water bottle, mouse pad, baseball cap and drawstring backpack

Custom packaging, also in EarthLink’s corporate orange, to complete the kit’s visual impact

Result: Employee churn down by 50%; new-hire promotional gift program expanded

Today, EarthLink’s new hires show up for their jobs with that warm and fuzzy “I love being a part of this!” feeling, which is reflected in a turnover rate that’s 50% lower than before the program began. In fact, the welcome-kit program was such a hit that the company now gives branded gifts during the interview process as well to encourage more candidates to say “yes” to begin with!

Take Away Message:

It’s never too early to make employees feel a welcome part of your corporate community. A program that targets new employees early can have a huge impact on turnover without being complicated or expensive.

(Via:The Promo Know-How Zone)

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New Hire Gift of the Week: Logo T-shirts

The new year will bring new employees into your company. You can ensure that your new hires feel right at home with a promotional gift that will bring them closer to the company and new co-workers.

Promotional T-shirts with your company's logo are a perfect gift for this occasion. Logo T-shirts are immensely popular and people feel pride showing them off. They are a great way to build team spirit especially when you have new hires.

Regardless if your company's work environment is casual and employees can wear the T-shirt to work, or professional so that workers can wear T-shirts outside of work, your new employee is sure to appreciate this friendly gesture. This is a great way to develop your new employee's loyalty for your company and to encourage him to work extra hard.

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Employee Incentive Tip: Calendars

The New Year is rapidly approaching and soon it will be time to start planning a new promotional program for your company. What better way to help your workers start the New Year than with promotional calendars.

Promotional calendars come in all shapes and sizes so that you can choose a different one for different employees. Best of all, calendars are very useful and will be appreciated by everyone. Appointment calendars would be perfect for secretaries who are usually in charge of making appointments. Promotional golf calendars are perfect for golf fans, for whom the sight of anything golf related is sure to bring a peace of mind. Animal lovers will love promotional dog and cat calendars. Promotional digital calendars will work great for members of the upper management because they are a higher end, pricier option. Best of all, promotional calendars will ensure that your employees have something to remember your company by everyday of the year.

Case Study of the Week: Beefing Up Your Reward System

A Close Client/Account Rep Relationship Makes for Just the Right Promotion at Just the Right Time

Background: When the "same-old, same-old" promotions won't do, Pelican Products turns to their promo know-how rep for help

Pelican Products, a company specializing in watertight protective cases, and ePromos sales representative Lonni Ornstein have been making beautiful promotions together since 2004, when the two worked on Pelican's first promotional products order.

Each quarter, Pelican rewards its top-performing factory employees with a useful, logo'd promotional item. The Pelican staff wanted something different this time; they weren't quite sure what…but something different. With their deadline quickly approaching, they called on Lonni for help.

Solution: An intuitive sense of what Pelican prefers leads to just the right product—a logo'd sweatshirt blanket

Thanks to their long-standing business relationship, Lonni has developed an intuitive sense of which promotional products Pelican Products might need and use. She knew they preferred lifestyle gifts to office gifts—gifts that would leave a positive impression yet that would be used by recipients every day. Keeping Pelican's budget in mind and after extensive research, Lonni presented the Pelican team with a list of potential products. From it, they chose a winner: a functional sweatshirt blanket.

Result: Blankets are imprinted and delivered on time; Pelican contest winners quickly warm up to their gifts

We quickly imprinted and shipped the sweatshirt blankets to Pelican Products just in time for their quarterly contest. The gift was well received by Pelican contest winners; it represented a nice change the barbeque sets, grills and folding chairs the company has awarded in contests past. And Lonni, with another successful promotion under her belt and an even stronger customer relationship with Pelican Products, ensured that our work with Pelican Products will continue for years to come.



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Employee Incentive Gift: "Smooth Jazz Christmas" Music CD in Jewel Case

Music is an essential part of the holidays. It just adds that familiar flavor to a festive mood. The gift of music will be a memorable and unique gift to give to your employees this holiday season.

Promotional "Smooth Jazz Christmas" Music CD in Jewel Cases or Greeting Cards makes a smooth gift with a twist. It features 10 traditional Christmas songs with the soothing sounds of the season by some of the leading names in light and new age jazz. You can also choose to have your company name or logo imprinted on the jewel case package or greeting card so that your employees will remember who gave it to them each year it is time to listen to holiday music again. It is a great way to become more personal with your employees by being on their side during happy family times.