Corporate gifts, any suggestions?
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Simpo Two said:
I regarded freebies as an opportunity to get my logo in front of prospects (and to keep it in front of clients) so I chose blockpads and coffee mugs. Most other gifts either get passed down to the office cat or shut in a drawer all day so nobody sees them. So it was aA useful item for them and some prime desk space rented for me 
We gave Mon Blanc pens as corporate gifts one year. I am guessing the cat didn't get them.I ummed and ahed about whether to have them engraved with our company name, or whether to let the recipient just remember who'd gifted the pen. What would you have done?
Simpo Two said:
I regarded freebies as an opportunity to get my logo in front of prospects (and to keep it in front of clients) so I chose blockpads and coffee mugs. Most other gifts either get passed down to the office cat or shut in a drawer all day so nobody sees them. So it was aA useful item for them and some prime desk space rented for me
8 years ago I sent to several offices of one of my large clients several 'millennium' editions of a coffee mug to celebrate 1,000 surveys with my logo and images of property I had inspected. I now work for them, and those mugs are still around and in use. Don't undervalue a simple mug!Louis Balfour said:
We gave Mon Blanc pens as corporate gifts one year. I am guessing the cat didn't get them.
I ummed and ahed about whether to have them engraved with our company name, or whether to let the recipient just remember who'd gifted the pen. What would you have done?
My objective was not 'You've spent loads of money with me so here's a shiny present', but 'Here is a thing that will be useful to you and oh look it just happens to have my logo and a few bullet points so that it will imprint itself into your mind'.I ummed and ahed about whether to have them engraved with our company name, or whether to let the recipient just remember who'd gifted the pen. What would you have done?
I think the issue with an unbranded gift is that whilst it might be nice and get used, it's not connected to you. So I would always brand them to increase the effectiveness of the gift. It can do no harm, only good.
Simpo Two said:
Louis Balfour said:
We gave Mon Blanc pens as corporate gifts one year. I am guessing the cat didn't get them.
I ummed and ahed about whether to have them engraved with our company name, or whether to let the recipient just remember who'd gifted the pen. What would you have done?
My objective was not 'You've spent loads of money with me so here's a shiny present', but 'Here is a thing that will be useful to you and oh look it just happens to have my logo and a few bullet points so that it will imprint itself into your mind'.I ummed and ahed about whether to have them engraved with our company name, or whether to let the recipient just remember who'd gifted the pen. What would you have done?
I think the issue with an unbranded gift is that whilst it might be nice and get used, it's not connected to you. So I would always brand them to increase the effectiveness of the gift. It can do no harm, only good.
Starfighter said:
Make them flight safe. I have been offered a variety of stuff and you would be surprised how much gets turned down due to it not being able to hand carry home.
Years ago on a company jolly to Turkey I was given a 250ml bottle of olive oil as a gift. I did say that there was no way I'd get it on the plane (was hand luggage only). They insisted and said it'd be fine. I re-gifted it to the taxi driver rather than throw it away.
Austin_Metro said:
https://www.montblanc.com/en-gb/rollerball-pens_co...
Ask Mont Blanc to replace their little badge with yours. E.g pic 4.
At 260 quid there's a few companies that would have issues with employees receiving these.Ask Mont Blanc to replace their little badge with yours. E.g pic 4.
Simpo Two said:
Most other gifts either get passed down to the office cat or shut in a drawer all day so nobody sees them.
even that is being kind. i've only ever kept 3 corporate gifts - a very decent travel adaptor, a [genuine] lego model of a marine engine we were looking at buying, and a branded A2 desk pad. the latter is decent quality, perfectly sized [my keyboard sits on top of it] and gets used for general notes and doodles, the rep who gave me the first one sends me a couple each year now.
if i was gifted a pen, it would depend how well it writes as to whether it would be used or instantly binned. branded bags, caps, umbrellas etc i just wouldn't accept in the first place. same with any kind of 'goodie bag' really, they're just full of crap.
Louis Balfour said:
Ari said:
I re-gifted it to the taxi driver rather than throw it away.
Is re-gifted a euphemism for paying the fare with it?He seemed pleased with it though, it was apparently quite an expensive one (do you get expensive olive oil?)
Grumps. said:
Louis Balfour said:
Grumps. said:
How about a good quality face masks with the logo on?
Plenty of free advertising when they are out and about wearing them.
2021 wants its corporate gifts back.Plenty of free advertising when they are out and about wearing them.
The company I used to work with went to trade shows and had little gifts to hand out. One that I remember because I swiped one was a branded power bank. Handy as a lot of people traveled and would need to keep their phone topped up to keep in touch with the office.
The other thing was a branded jewelers loupe, but that was pretty unique due to our clients.
Pen show size
The other thing was a branded jewelers loupe, but that was pretty unique due to our clients.
Pen show size
Edited by Cotty on Monday 27th March 20:39
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