BBQ Gift Sets

With BBQ as a staple of many families' 4th of July celebrations, imprinted BBQ gift sets make for great corporate gifts around this time of year. Whether recipients love good old fashioned hot dogs or perfectly flame grilled burgers, every time they fire up that fire up that grill and use the utensils from your promotional gift set, they'll remember your company's thoughtfulness. If you simply want to help spice up the barbecue food and have your recipients' guests rave about the great flavors and sauces, you can get your company name in on the conversation with custom barbecue and hot sauce. No matter which way you decide to go, corporate barbecue gift sets will make you a part of the barbecuing festivities even after the Independence Day celebrations.

National Candy Month

We're quickly approaching the end of June, but it's never too late to reward your employees with a treat. June is National Candy Month, and it's the ideal opportunity to indulge your staff's sweet tooths. Everyone has had some sort of candy at least once in his or her life and generally have some of childhood memories involving candy. You can give your staff members an opportunity to relive those positive memories at the office and boost company morale during these summer months with some custom chocolate gifts and promotional candy boxes. If you really want their memories and appreciation for your gift to last, you can give away imprinted candy jars that will remain on their desks long after they've finished the candy.

Tire Gauges

During the 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama suggested that if all Americans inflated their tires properly and took their cars for regular tune-ups, they could save as much oil as new offshore drilling would produce. Contending that Obama's assertion was ludicrous, the Republican National Convention responded by sending tire gauges labeled "Barack Obama's Energy Plan" to Washington reporters.

The Bush Administration estmiated that expanded offshore drilling could increase oil production by 200,000 barrels per day by 2030. Americans consume approximately 20 million barrels per day, so that would meet about 1% of our demand two decades from now. However, efficiency experts suggest that keeping tires inflated can improve gas mileage by 3% and that regular maintenance can add another 4%, proving Obama's assertions to be valid. Many drivers already follow their advice, but if everyone did, we could immediately reduce demand several percentage points. (via Time Magazine's "The Tire Gauge Solution: No Joke").

You can give away custom imprinted tire gauges to help people ensure that their tires are sufficiently inflated and to help recipients maximize their gas mileage ratio. It's a relatively inexpensive item that not only shows that you are an eco-friendly company, but that you are a practical and thoughtful organization.

Auto Power Inverters

Perfect for employees and clients who are always on the go, custom imprinted power inverters make for good corporate gifts. Although power inverters are practical products, few drivers purchase them because of their relatively high price. They are very useful because they can convert your car's DC power into AC, which is perfect for powering or charging TV's, DVD players, game consoles, cell phones, and other portable electronics. Recipients will appreciate the resourcefulness of power inverters, and it will help make one of your company's branded products a fixture in their cars and remind them of your company every time they travel.

Rewarding Survey Takers

Companies that are concerned with customer feedback and rely on survey responses are often confronted with the problem of how to turn fleeting moments of valuable feedback into useful suggestions. While companies would prefer to receive feedback right when customers experience difficulties with their products or services and are most passionate about articulating quality feedback, surveys only allow feedback collection to happen at pre-determined "optimal" intervals.

IdeaScale can provide a solution to the problem of real time feedback by creating online communities that allow customers to form groups around specific issues and suggestions and let them collaboratively devise and revise possible solutions. Each idea is then expanded by comments from and voting by the community. The success of an idea is determined by a voting system within the community, allowing customers to take a more active role in your company by serving as advocates. The key to the success of IdeaScale is customer engagement, and you can maximize the potential of IdeaScale and improve customer engagement by offering promotional gift sets to voters of top solutions and a combination of promotional desktop items and eco-friendly products to encourage participation in these IdeaScale communities.

Wine Totes

Custom wine totes make great corporate gifts not only because they are cost efficient, but they retain a sense of elegance that contribute to its high perceived value. Not only are they eco-friendly, but it will get your company logo noticed at trendy BYOB restaurants and dinner parties. While the practicality and quality of wine totes can vary based on your target audience, whether you want to give a classing single wine tote or a wheeled cooler capable of holding multiple bottles, wine totes will make classy client gifts. If a simple wine tote isn't enough, wine gift sets are perfect complements to wine totes to take care of all of your clients' wine-associated needs.

Luggage Locators

Continuing with the previous few posts on travel items, other cool corporate gift items are luggage locators. Travelers often strain themselves trying to identify their own suitcase from the conveyor belt of nearly identical pieces of luggage, but luggage locators help put a few flyers at ease. Luggage locators are typically two piece sets, including a remote and receiver, which use a radio frequency (RF) signal from the remote to seek out the receiver attached to luggage from up to 60 feet away.

Flying is already a stressful experience with travelers dreading to deal with flight delays, cancellations, security check points, tight seating arrangements, etc. Promotional travel accessories, like luggage locators or luggage handles, which can make traveling experiences less burdensome or slightly more comfortable, will help reinforce the caring nature of your company. While these gifts are ideal for frequent flyers, they can be a great gift to any target audience to enhance their travel experiences.

Security Fast Pass Backpacks

Following up on my last post, promotional "Security Fast Pass" backpacks are great alternatives to the laptop briefs. Like"Security Fast Pass" laptop briefs, the rear checkpoint friendly compartment allows the laptop to remain inside the bag and still be scanned, expediting the airport screening process.

Though it may not have the same corporate feel of a laptop brief, it offers travelers a lot more storage space and give you the same exposure to other traveling businesspeople and casual vacationers.

TSA Checkpoint Friendly Laptop Briefs

With more than 700 million travelers passing through airport security checkpoints yearly, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recently began introducing changes to passenger screening at the checkpoints to expedite the security check-in process, while maintaining the effectiveness of its security strategies. Acknowledging that the check-in process may be tedious due to the screening of travelers' shoes, coats, laptops, and other personal items in individual bins, the TSA has attempted to streamline the security process. The TSA has tried to consolidate the security streaming process by encouraging manufacturers to design "Checkpoint Friendly" bags that will produce a clear and unobstructed image of the laptop when undergoing X-ray screening, allowing laptops to remain in bags for screening.

Bag manufacturers have developed checkpoint friendly laptop briefs with a "security fast pass" component that helps travelers get through U.S. airport security screenings quickly by keeping their laptop in separate compartment, apart from the rest of their belongings. Since the goal of the "Checkpoint Friendly" bags is to ensure that there is nothing above or below the laptop compartment, security fast pass laptop briefs have another section that allows travelers to store their electronics, cords, files, and other travel items separately.

Promotional TSA friendly laptop briefs are a great corporate gift item for frequent flyers and traveling businesspeople who need to shave a few minutes off of the security screening process to breathe a little easier before their flights. It will also give your company some additional exposure as other travelers see your company name on these unique laptop briefs. While the functionality of these laptop briefs varies minimally, the quality of these travel friendly briefs can vary depending on its manufacturers, which include Victorinox, Callaway, Soren, among many others.

Leather Wallets

Staring right into the face of one the worst recessions in decades, people have been reluctant to splurge on even the smallest luxuries, like leather wallets and small electronics products. However, you can improve your relationship with employees with small giveaways letting them know that you understand budgets have tightened, but you are willing to splurge on them for their commendable service and dedication to your company.

Imprinted leather wallets are perfect to keep your company on the minds of employees, even when they're not at work. Almost everyone has their own functioning wallet already, but as they continue to wear, your corporate gift will be right there waiting for them. Leather wallets are elegant and useful, so your employees will surely appreciate the fact that they didn't have to pay to get a new one.

Performance Polo T-Shirts

Corporate employees and office workers would all love to casually stroll into work wearing t-shirts and sandals everyday. Although this may not be possible, you can make this a near reality by implementing a summer dress down policy. By giving employees an opportunity to dress a little more casually, even as often as once a week, you can help boost employee morale by relaxing the corporate environment.

Custom logo performance polo t-shirts are perfect gifts for companies looking to start and promote a summer dress down policy. Made of moisture wicking fabrics, performance polo t-shirts will help employees stay comfortable and dry in and out of office. They are a great alternative to typical promotional gifts because they are fashionable and will help advertise your company brand whenever an employee wears it.

Imprinted performance polos also offer a tremendous opportunity to foster a sense of unity at the office. These gifts will help remind employees that they're a vital contributors to the company and that you are glad they have been a part of your success.

Custom Logo Padfolios

Corporate executives and employees are always scrambling to stay organized and keep up with all of their obligations in and out of the office. Recently, custom logo padfolios have emerged as a popular corporate gift choice to help solve their problems.

As "The Newest Corporate Gift Trend", promotional portfolios should be at the top of your list of corporate gifts and incentives to give away. It's the optimal gift that will help recipients stay organized and help your company achieve your own promotional goals.

Promotional leather padfolios are a great corporate gift for any budget size. Whether you're looking to giveaway non-woven padfolios at large, public promotional events or high-quality, custom imprinted leather padfolios to your most valued clients, they will always keep your company name and logo in front of its recipients and remind them of your company's products and services.

USB Hubs

People at the office typically often deal with tremendous USB gadget clutter from external hard drives, scanners, printers, etc. This problem proves to be rather troublesome if your employees share files with multiple persons through flashdrives and external hard drives. However, you can help employees and clients organize their jumbles of criss-crossing wires with promotional USB hubs.

USB hubs are durable and practical promotional gifts that will sit atop recipients' desks and help them multi-task more efficiently. While they are ideal for desktop computers with numerous peripherals, USB ports are also great for laptop users with only one USB slot. With imprinted USB hubs, they can more easily disconnect their laptops and tote them around the office and back home. The convience and reliability of your custom USB hub will be sure to resonate with your employees and clients every time they see your company logo and reconnect their perpherials.