Be early when giving coporate gifts!

The top 2 strategies for corporate clever gift giving at holiday seasonal time: send out a gift with that is impressive and not gift cards and make yours the very first gift your customer or perspective clients or customers will get. Top two blunders for firm gift giving at holiday time are: Not acquiring the gift soon enough and giving gift cards or gift certificates. Let's start with mistakes.... Not planning/lateness. By sending it behind time your gift gets mixed up with all the others in a pile or in the break room and people have a tendency to forget about what they got from who. The cards get mixed up and in the commotion and hustle and bustle in the days before Dec. 25 your gift is misplaced 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 listen up! Don't come to your administrative assistant at the last second and expect her or him to work amazing things...lateness on your part should not be an problem on their part. You are putting them in a really tough position 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 immersed with last minute desperate demands. This year looks like a great one so don't be surprised if local and national basket and food companies run out of stock. Your secretary will be squandering time and spending way too much time on your tardy gift giving task and it not only will stress them out but take away from their typical 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 people and companies who postpone 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 consequences or errors with mailing it late or the problem itself and the cost of spending too much money 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 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 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 well 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 responsible 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 virtually what they want, so send a gift that comes with bling and a bow and the gift basket is probably your 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.