Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Do it now!

The top two strategies for corporate wise gift giving at holiday time: give a gift with that is impressive and not gift cards and make yours the 1st gift your customer or perspective clients or customers will receive. Leading 2 mistakes for corporate gift giving at holiday time are: Not acquiring the gift soon enough and giving gift cards or gift certificates. Let's begin with mistakes.... Not planning/lateness. By sending it late your gift gets mixed up with all the others in a pile or in the break room and persons tend to forget what they got from who. The cards get mixed up and in the flurry and hustle and bustle in the days before Dec. 25 your gift is misplaced and you have lost money by now. thank you gift basketAdministrative assistants are usually in the position of sending the holiday corporate gifts and bosses, you need to listen up! Don't come to your administrative assistant at the last second and expect her or him to work wonders...lateness on your part should not be an problem on their part. You are putting them in a really tough situation to scavenge and acquire last minute products or gifts and to get them sent. Many times gift companies, especially holiday basket companies like Baskets by Rita in Aurora are swamped with last minute desperate demands. This year seems like a great one so don't be surprised if local and nationwide 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 answer to last minute gift giving difficulties is to plan early. Give them a opportunity to make an order and get the gift at the price point you want to spend. Did you know that most people and companies who procrastinate end up spending a lot more than they had planned? The items they wanted are sold out and they have to take what is remaining even if it costs more. So the two pitfalls or errors with sending it late or the trouble itself and the cost of overspending and more importantly the less positive 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 appears as soon after Thanksgiving as possible to have that ultra positive effect at your clients and customers businesses. Secondly, fore go the gift card and gift certificate plan. Those have been preferred in the past but in past years everyone gets and gives gift cards and they have lost their appeal and affect. It also is the easiest way to go..it shows they weren't really worth the time or effort or they were a last minute gift thought. Gift certificates to restaurants have worked in the past too except someone is now in charge to order the food and go get it. Choose a gift that comes with a cheerful wow isn't that great or how nice or isn't that pretty. These days individuals buy practically what they want, so send a gift that comes with bling and a bow and the gift basket is probably your very best. 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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