Monday 10 November 2008

Advantages of Giving Corporate Gift Cards

Among the many considerations in businesses is the maintenance of good relation with the clients, employees and customers. This way, you will be able to lengthen transaction so that you will profit more on the customer and the customer in retain will have more of your goods and services.

Undoubtedly, the benefits of sending people gifts can never be underestimated. While giving corporate gifts is an expression of gratitude for mutual benefits in a business, it is also a way of marketing your company. It may either be that your company is just trying to lay more solid foundations on relationships or its just promoting good working relationship to its prospects. However, corporate gifts are also used to build company spirit and to reward its people for their achievements.

Although gift cards are usually given as part of incentive plans for employees, it can now also be used as corporate gifts. Due to the stresses and the natural difficulties encountered during the selection of corporate gifts, companies have now switched to giving the options to their employees and recipients by sending them corporate gift cards and other similar options.

This is a much better idea than giving them pre-packaged gifts that are usually seen in the market these days. While corporate gift cards are not the perfect gifts, it is certainly a good idea since it stretches the personal options of the recipients.

Everyday corporate settings are pretty hectic and it is likely that you would overlook your planned gift for your employees and clients due to the daily hustle and bustle. Good thing there are lots of choices now that can be given as corporate gifts. For your last minute choices, here are the following options you can look into:

Gifts cards are much like gift certificates, only they are presented as plastic cards. These may either have fixed values or assigned to multi-level values. The latter can be used partly while the remaining balance or value can be used sometime later.

This practically is one of the many "best-sellers" in the gift-giving world. While gift cards can be assigned only to specific stores and merchants, these still allow much flexibility on the recipients of the gift cards since they would have the option to choose what they want depending on the value as provided in the card.

Corporate gift cards come in many types. The most common though is the reloadable option where the card holder can use the same card over and over again so long as the company continues to add value to the card.

A number of corporate gift cards can hold major credit cards like MasterCard or VISA. Others are more merchant-specific which only allows the user to buy from certain stores and outlets. These are certainly less expensive than the multi-value cards.

Since trends are moving online these days, consider also giving your clients and employees online corporate gift cards. With much diverse choices, they are sure to find one that would suit the value of their cards.

Aside from what we have mentioned earlier, corporate gift cards are excellent choice of gifts basically because you give freedom to your employees as to what choices they can make. Its more formal than cash cards and is more convenient than gift certificates. Thus you make both worlds meet by simply putting your gifts within a plastic card.





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1 comment:

  1. Hey I found your idea of corporate gift cards wonderful. I always believe that corporate gifts should be such that's useful to the person... and definitely people would find something or the else to buy with it. I wish I had come across your blog earlier cause even i was looking for corporate gift ideas. Meanwhile browsing through the net i found this site: http://ipodyourlife.co.in/make_it.aspx I picked up iPods from here at a great price. However, next time I will definitely pick up gift cards!

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