Early bird catches the worm

The leading 2 strategies for corporate prudent gift giving at holiday seasonal time: send a gift with that is impressive and not gift cards and make yours the first gift your customer or perspective clients or customers will receive. Best 2 errors for firm gift giving at holiday time are: Not getting the gift promptly enough and giving gift cards or gift certificates. Let's start with blunders.... Not preparing/tardiness. By sending it late your gift gets mixed up with all the others in a pile or in the break room and individuals are likely to forget 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 lost and you have lost money by now. Administrative assistants are usually in the position of sending the holiday corporate gifts and bosses, you need to pay attention.  Don't come to your administrative assistant at the last second and expect her or him to work miracles...lateness on your part should not be an emergency on their part. You are adding to them in a really challenging position to scavenge and find 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 excellent one so don't be amazed if local and national basket and food companies run out of stock. Your secretary will be wasting time and spending way too much time on your late gift giving task and it not only will stress them out but take away from their regular duties. The solution to last minute gift giving problems is to plan early. Give them a opportunity to make an order and get the gift at the price point you want to spend. Did you know that most individuals and companies who put it off 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 pitfalls or mistakes 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 comes as soon after Thanksgiving as possible to have that extremely positive effect at your clients and customers businesses. Secondly, fore go the gift card and gift certificate plan. Those have been popular in the past but in past years everyone gets and gives gift cards and they have lost their luster and affect. It also is the most effortless way to go..it shows they weren't well worth the time or energy or they were a last minute gift thought. Gift certificates to restaurants have worked in the past too except someone is now in charge 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 beautiful. These days individuals buy pretty much what they want, so send a gift that comes with bling and a bow and the gift basket is probably your very 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.