Holiday Gift Giving Made Easy

The holidays are just around the corner, which means it's time to decide on the perfect gifts for the season. Whether you are shopping for current customers, prospective partners, or your stellar staff, you are sure to find the perfect promotional item for any occasion.

There are so many ways to show your appreciation - from food gifts they will love to personalized items that will keep your brand at the forefront of their attention.

Click any of the links in the round-up below to read more about holiday gift giving ideas that gets results.

Top Tech Holiday Gifts

Affordable Yet Unique Corporate Holiday Gifts

Treat your Customers to the Gift of Planning and Organization

Calendars, planners and clocks are some of the most popular promotional items because they are useful, inexpensive and receive innumerable impressions on a daily basis. Brand these every day essentials with your logo and stay top of mind with your customers all year long!

Here are 7 of our favorite promotional products to help keep your customers and employees on time and organized, perfect for distribution at the end of the year.

Desk Organizer with Multi Function Clock

Impress the recipients with a jumbo LCD music alarm clock with day/date calendar and thermometer. Colored metal mesh pen cup with 2 spring loaded hide away storage drawers. Your logo is readily visible, front and center on the clock. 

7 Holiday Promotional Gifts That Create a Big Impact

The holiday season is a great time to show your customers you care. Branded gifts are a great way to thank clients for their business or employees for their hard work. Here are some high-impact promotional Holiday Gifts that your favorite people will appreciate. Remember to order early to avoid rush charges and out-of-stock items.

5 Tips for Choosing the Best Promotional Product Holiday Gifts

Believe it or not, the holidays are right around the corner. Start planning now to be prepared to show appreciation for your staff members, clients, and prospective customers with these five easy holiday gift buying tips.


1. Order Early

The holiday season sneaks up on people—the warm fall weather lulls people into forgetting that winter, and the holiday season, will soon be here. Don’t wait until it's too late, or you'll run the risk of having your favorite holiday gift selling out. Hot sellers seem to run out of stock each season, so order now to avoid out of stocks and rush charges.

2. Be Inspired by Retail
Your gift recipients enjoy holiday gifts that are similar to what they see as hot sellers in the stores. Think brand names (like Cutter & Buck for garments, Godiva chocolates, or Cross pens) and keep an eye on popular trends such as fitness bands for gift inspirations. Another retail trend to emulate in your Holiday plans is gift packaging, such as taking a stainless steel tumbler and packaging it in a custom gift box that will enhance the gift experience.

5 More Reasons to Work With a Promotional Products Professional

While it's true that the internet puts a variety of products at your fingertips, the best way to ensure that your promotional products are going to work effectively for you is by working with a Promotional Products Professional. In a previous post, we shared the top 5 benefits of working with a Promotional Products expert. But, here are five MORE ways a professional can help you make your marketing more effective.

Professionals go beyond the product to help you meet goals

Successful promotion campaigns don't just happen by chance. To realize your goals, your promotional products program must be carefully planned, taking into consideration the audience, budget and the ultimate result you seek. While you can purchase a product anywhere, an experienced distributor can help you solve problems, plan out a program to meet your needs, and get the results you want.

Professionals are in tune with industry trends

You want your promotional efforts to be effective, and your product professional can help. Professionals are in tune with the latest trends and hottest new items, and this can lead to making a connection between your product or service and the perfect giveaway to match your company's goals. Online specials are showcasing the products that the online company wants to sell you - rather than making a personalized decision with a product professional to decide the best item for you to buy.

Promotional Product Umbrellas Will Have You Singing in the Rain

While we may not think of umbrellas until we need them, their usefulness goes beyond keeping us dry or protected from the sun. They are also huge brand builders! With a retention rate of 14 months, umbrellas printed with your company logo or promotional message will continue to tell your brand message for a long time, making them the perfect choice for your next promotional campaign.

Here are some powerful findings from a 2016 survey by Advertising Specialty Institute:

Umbrellas make a lasting impression

Over their lifespan, umbrellas generate over 1,300 impressions. This high number of impressions means a very low cost per impression for your advertising message and a highly effective use of your promotional budget.

Umbrellas have longevity

Umbrellas are kept on average for more than a year, far above the typical retention rate of 8 months for other imprinted promotional items. The longevity of this useful item continues to create goodwill while displaying your brand for many months, or even years, making umbrellas an incredibly effective advertising medium.

Top 5 Benefits of Working with a Promotional Products Expert

New prospects often ask me why they should work with a promotional products expert, when they see ads saying they can order promotional products online. It’s a good question, and one that marketing managers and business owners should ask. You owe it to your company and yourself to make the right decision for your objectives, budget and peace of mind.

There are hundreds of online organizations you can reach out to as a business owner to meet some of your marketing needs. You can order printing, design and products with a quick click.

But that quick click, while seemingly saving you some time in the short term, can cost you much more in the long run, especially when it comes to promotional products.

Purchasing promotional products should support your marketing strategy. You aren’t just buying pens and t-shirts but rather communications vehicles to promote your brand. Are you choosing the right one? Were you able to evaluate all of your options?

The promotional products expense comes out of your marketing budget and the ROI should be justified as any other marketing expense would. Don’t just buy an item because it is cheap or it looks nice, buy it because it is the best item to support your marketing objectives. However there are so many possibilities out there it’s hard to know that you found the perfect product or the best price. That is where promotional product professionals come in.