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Corporate Gifts - Choosing The Right Ones

Choosing the right corporate gifts to give to valued clients can make them into life long business partners, but choosing the wrong ones can be disastrous!

Author: Gareth Parkin

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Choosing the right corporate gifts to give to valued clients can make them into life long business partners, but choosing the wrong ones can be disastrous! Just about anybody views a corporate gift with a certain amount of suspicion. We all know they cost a few cents to produce, and the test is in whether or not a little bit of thought was put into the gift. People at medium or high levels in a company who receive cheap plastic gifts, pens bought by the gross are very seldom impressed, and neither do they feel valued.

The honest truth is that most people would like their reward or gift in the form of something that comes out of the national treasury, and not a laser printer. Corporate gifts’ function are to strike a happy medium between how much you want to spend on your gifts and how valued you can afford to make your staff and clients feel. Here is a quick guide to choosing the right gifts for your clients or your staff

Corporate Gifts for Staff
Everybody loves something for nothing, and when it comes to your middle and upper management it takes quite a bit of something to make them happy. The pens and paperweights with the company logo you used to give out when you were starting up won’t cut it with this crowd, and they need to be shown that you are prepared to spend money on them. A great gift idea for middle and upper management is a “corporate decision maker”. This is a simple bearing with a cog or wheel around it, on which are marked various decisions such as “yes, no, maybe, pass the buck, reorganize…”.

All you have to do is ask it a question, spin the wheel and wait for an answer! These little gadgets are always good for a laugh and are made of stainless steel. This makes them heavy, and heavy corporate gifts feel more valuable because people are so used to receiving gifts that look heavy, but actually weigh nothing.

Corporate Gifts for Clients
We all know what pressure is on companies to impress their large accounts, but a lot of companies don’t know that simple corporate gifts will do the trick. Clients who are responsible for buying and negotiating new contracts often receive many of these gifts, so the trick is to make your stand out.

A great new idea for corporate gifts is something that provides a novelty and is interesting to look at, without taking up too much desk space. Magnetic levitated globes do this very well. These are simple inventions, but their effect is powerful. You can pass your hands underneath and over the globe and it will remain suspended in mid air as it is levitated by a magnetic field. This kind of gift can be produced for under $40 each, and is always well received. Another similar option for corporate gifts is levitating picture frames, which are always popular with executives.

About Author

Gareth Parkin is the co-founder of Ideasbynet, the UK's largest online source of business gifts and promotional gifts. He has taken the UK gift market by storm by the application of modern business thinking and the latest search engine marketing techniques. For more details on business gifts visit www.ideasbynet.com

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