Every year I have the same conversation about year-end corporate gifts in November. A client calls, slightly panicked, needing 300 year-end gifts that are meaningful, on-brand and delivered before the office closes. And every year I have to tell some of them the same thing: the gift you actually wanted is no
Branded diaries are the only corporate gift that expires. Every other item in your year-end order can wait a little. This one cannot, and the buyers of branded diaries South Africa suppliers deal with each year tend to learn that the hard way. A jacket ordered late is still a
Every year, somewhere around the second week of November, my phone rings with the same call. A voice I like, from a company I like, asking whether we can do three hundred branded gifts before the fifteenth of December. Sometimes four hundred. Always in a hurry, always apologetic, always certain
Table of contents The gift is the easy part. Defending it is not. Eco-friendly corporate gifts are the easiest order you will place all year and the hardest one to explain afterwards. You order 500 branded water bottles made from recycled plastic. Marketing puts them in a post captioned “our
Branded merchandise for events is the easiest budget to waste and the hardest to get right. Walk any conference floor an hour before closing and look in the bins. They are full of branded pens, flimsy totes and pamphlets that never made it past the door. Every stand had a
The most important corporate gifting decision your company makes does not happen in December. It happens, or fails to happen, in a short meeting in September that almost nobody books. Skip that meeting and corporate gifting becomes a last-minute order placed under pressure. Hold it, and the whole season turns
Franchise merchandise usually goes wrong in a storeroom, not in a design meeting. The call that started this one was not about design. It was about space. A franchise operations manager had run out of it, and the thing filling her storeroom was branded stock nobody had asked for in
Women’s Month branding that isn’t a pink logo for a day. From a woman-owned business of 25 years, here is what real recognition actually looks like.
Healthcare branded merchandise is never tested harder than at three in the morning in winter. The patient is awake, anxious and under a thin blanket. The nurse is on the far side of a long shift, hands cold, still smiling. Everything your brand puts in front of either of them
