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Effective Business Gifts

Effective business gifts are not necessarily adventurous or "way out" business gifts. Just have a look at the average office desk; and what do you see?

Desk diaries, paperweights, mouse mats, flash drive memory sticks, staple machines, coffee mugs, pens, pencils and erasers plus two or three dozen general office items. All of these can be, and are, used as effective business gifts and promotional items…and at very little cost.

When these common-or-garden office items are personalized with a logo and message they have a priceless capacity to be effective business gifts as they remain on a customer’s desk and keep your product or service in front of all and sundry.

Advantages of effective business gifts

This type of office product, when used as apromotional gift has one price advantage over many other advertising items. They are effective business gifts because they stick around on the average office desk day after day, week after week throughout their life…discretely supporting your sales message; and you cannot get a more effective business gift than that.

Effective Business Gifts Are Sil ent Salesmen

A silent salesman is an old fashioned term harking back to an era when all sales people were seen as salesmen. However, in these enlightened times sales women are often just as successful as men and sometimes more so in certain trades and professions. So, let’s change the definition to sales person. But whatever nomenclature you choose it is still abundantly true that an effective business gift is a silent salesperson.

And no more so than when you look at the most used advertising and promotional gift on the planet…of course, it’s a personalised pen. Grandly designated in business gift catalogues as a Writing Instrument a personalised promotional pen can be a relatively humble gift or a corporate executive gift of some magnitude costing well into four figures. Nevertheless, it’s still a pen whether it be a Bic or a Cross and they will always give excellent value and are effective business gifts.

Other favorite effective business gifts are often associated  with leisure pursuits and surely the king when it comes to leisure networking is the royal and ancient game of golf. On the golf course you have a wonderful opportunity to convert your customer or prospect into a walking billboard; how neat is that? An can there be a more effective business gift?

Customers and prospects are happy to dress up in your monogrammed sweatshirts, wear your caps adorned with your logo and carry your umbrellas adorned with your sales message; truly amazing to get your customers to act as effective business gifts. You used to have to pay unemployed people to parade up and down Main Street to advertise your wares but not any more. And more to the point, your customers and prospects will happily continue to use your stuff long after the main event is finished so anything you have given automatically become effective business gifts.

Effective business gifts are economical

Undeniably, effective business gifts are an economical way to promote your business. Any business gift catalogue lists at leas 2000+ ideas which will help to create some visibility in a competitive market place.

And you don’t have to spend a fortune; just a few pence on some pens will get you going. However, these are just one part of the marketing mix, but nevertheless, a most significant part, so why not use some effective business gifts.


Jack Ritchies is the author of How to Make Serious Money from Business Gifts and is Sales Director of Starlake Publishing Limited. Jack has been involved in the recognition, awards and promotional gift business since 1983 and can be contacted at jr@starlakepublishing.co.uk