Personalised Gifts

Things you need to consider:

• What clients are you buying for?
• Budget
• Application

You should always have a think about who you are buying your gifts for, the product should always be relevant to each individual if you want to make the largest impact on them. Your gift, if branded with your name and logo, should be a subtle way to show who you are but at the same time be of use to the recipient. Brilliant Promotions stock a wide range of low cost, high quality products suitable for gifts that can drive sales your way or promote your company message. With our experience in previous successful campaigns, we can help and advise you on what gifts to choose or how to go about sending the right message to your potential clients or customers.

If you are considering sending corporate gifts to clients and have a handful of city bankers and several suppliers, you may wish to consider your budget for each. Spending more on the larger clients may be a nice way to keep them on side, and you never know, they may return the favour. With many smaller businesses such as suppliers, it makes more sense to budget yourself to get several smaller, inexpensive items to ensure they all get something.

Promotional Corporate Gifts

Don't forget a company isn't made up of one person! You could split up your budget in order to get a gift for the boss, a secretary and possibly their admin team. For example, if you know that the boss is a golf fan, you could get a golf putter set for him to use in his office during quiet moments, a two bottle wine box for him and his secretary to share and a luxury Xmas food hamper for the admin team to share with each other. This would give your company a strong presence within your client's office.

Gift Ideas

Here are some suggestions offered by Brilliant Promotions for you to try:

• Luxury Champagne Crate With Smoked Salmon & Chocolates for the important clients
• Two Bottle Wine Crate good neutral choice for a lot of clients
• Wilson Lite Carry Golf Stand Bag for the golf enthusiasts
• Wilson Lite Carry Golf Stand Bag for the golf enthusiasts
• Sports Bag for the active clients
• Bags of Jellies cheap way to please a large supplier work force
• Logo Lollipops a alternative inexpensive way to please a large supplier work force
• Many more products to choose from Brilliant Promotions

If you're looking for personalised gifts for trade exhibitions or just want something for internal marketing, Brilliant Promotions will be able to help. With a selection of luxury hampers available, you can make your companies presence felt to important clients and customers at Christmas, or other important dates throughout the year.

First impressions count for a lot when it comes to business, this type of setup is possible with Brilliant Promotions. Our team can offer you help and advice for choosing stationary, office equipment and offer other ideas for products and business solutions. Have a strong company presence with a professional feel to your office with personalised equipment being used by your workforce throughout the day.

So Many Options, What Customised Products to Choose?

Areas that you should consider:

• Your company size
• Key areas of your Office
• Your type of business

The size of your company and office building is a big factor as to what you should be aiming to get while keeping your budget at a manageable level. With a small workforce you can concentrate on what people could use such as staplers and various stationary. If you have a large workforce then you don't want to be providing expensive items for everybody, perhaps concentrate on the key areas such as the boardroom. In here you will be having meetings with both in house staff and clients, having items such as customised pens, pads, mugs and coasters for everybody to use when they need to. How about the boss's office? This is a key area of any business, the core of the company, where better to promote it? You can think about everything here, from mouse mat to clock to all kinds of stationary including folders.

Promotional Product Application

Consider what people use within your office or workplace, there is no point getting large amounts of products if they will do nothing other than sit in the stationary cupboard for years on end. If you all use computers to complete your work then perhaps you wouldn't want thousands of pens, items such as branded Post-it notes, customised computer mouse or personalised USB flash drives would be more beneficial to your company. Items such as these can make a very big impact at minimal cost. On the other hand, doctors surgeries or schools may prefer larger quantities of branded pens, as the general public will be using them a lot more of the time, and we all know how often they go missing! Schools especially may prefer larger amounts of promotional stationary to cover student's needs as well as their own office use. Corporation type companies will prefer personalised writing pads and pens for boardroom use.

The helpful staff at Brilliant Promotions is more than happy to give you advice on any of this and much more, just give us a call.

Promotional Clothing

What your staff can do for you:

• Clothing
• Customer contact
• Give-aways

Your staff are the most important advertising tool at these types of events. They can be used as a walking brand to promote every part of your company to a wide audience. One of the first thing people see will be your staff, think about the difference it would make if they were to be wearing clothes brandishing your company logo while wearing a security or name badge customised with your company name. They could be speaking to people and at the same time be holding a customised clipboard and a personalised pen, while handing out personalised carrier bags containing low cost branded merchandise to represent your company. They could replenish their supplies from a conference bag with your logo printed on the side with conference balloons tied to it.

Conference Gifts

If you are an IT company and are attending an IT conference, there is no point in giving out pens and paper to people when they will most likely end up putting it into a drawer somewhere never to be seen again. Items such as personalised Post-it notes or some low cost USB Flash drives or similar devices offered by Brilliant Promotions may be a more suitable choice. Always be sure to choose items that people attending the conference can use after they leave, so they have a permanent reminder of your company.

Conference Size

Always remember to consider the size of the conference, if there will be a large amount of people attending, be sure to concentrate more on more low cost solutions as you can get more for your budget and will be able to give more customised products away to people. You may need to move away from the relevancy aspect a little, by using items such as branded key rings, stationary or business card holders. Perhaps even consider the fact that a lot of the people attending may give the items to their children, or may even play golf, so branded golf balls or other golf related products from Brilliant Promotions may be deemed more suitable. If the conference is small, with less people, you could consider getting a lower number, but more relevant and quality items they will be sure to use again and again.

Brilliant Promotions can offer you solutions to all of these ideas and many more, just ask our helpful sales team to help you choose the most suitable solution for your marketing campaigns.

Items you should consider are, but not limited to:

• Event Portfolio Cases
• Branded Writing Pads
• Conference Pens
• Conference Give-away Products

The Big Impression, Branded Document Folders

If you are meeting some big clients, you may wish to spend a little extra to ensure you make the biggest impact you can for your company. Brilliant Promotions have a large selection of Portfolio Cases available including some made of leather, customisable with your company logo. Some include zips to secure all of your important documents and contain document pockets, cardholders and some come complete with a pen and calculator.

Other products you should consider are branded business cards, small cards you can leave lying around for others to see or give to clients that look professional. How about your diary? Brilliant Promotions offer personalised Diaries that will promote your business whenever you check for important dates or addresses.

Hosting a Corporate Event

If you are hosting your own conference, meeting or event you can use personalised products to promote your company. Brilliant Promotions offer give-away conference folders, available in leather, bonded leather, PVC or PU materials that you can give to clients containing your company information that they can take away with them and use for years to come all the while brandishing your company logo or slogan. Be sure to provide writing equipment such as promotional pens for clients to use for the duration of the conference or meeting. This is a very good way to promote your company and give you a very professional appearance while hosting events.

• Company Name
• Company Logo
• Brand Slogan
• Contact Information, Phone or Website
• Employee Name

All clothing is available in a selection of sizes to suit any worker and is suitable for men, women or children in a wide variety of different colours.

Beneficial Businesses

This type of advertising can be used by a wide variety of businesses from all industries. If your company has a high turnover of staff, you can go for a high quantity, low cost solution of t-shirts for all members of staff branded with your company logo for staff to keep after they leave. If you are a small business with a small, loyal workforce you can go for higher quality goods such as personalised shirts, neckwear and possibly fleeces for a larger branding opportunity. The same could apply depending on your budget, if you have a larger workforce but a low budget for customised clothing you can go for low cost solutions such as t-shirts and caps to match your brand identity. The areas of work you could use this for is endless, including:

• Retail stores
• Building and Construction
• Large Outdoor Events
• Catering
• Many, Many More!

Brilliant Promotions offer a selection of promotional clothing suitable for use indoors and outdoors, so businesses based in offices and shops as well as areas of work such as gardeners and builders can be catered for. For outdoors why not give members of staff jackets, or thick fleeces for the colder parts of the year with your logo and company name brandished on them, again depending on budget you could give your staff a choice of what they could wear from polo shirts, jackets, caps and neckwear depending on the area of work and what your staff will be doing.

Personalised Mugs? There's so many…

Some suggestions include, but are not limited to:

• Recycled Plastic Coffee Mug
• Large China Coffee Mug
• Bone China Mini Tankard
• Many more variants...

The recycled plastic coffee mug is one of the low cost solutions from Brilliant Promotions. These type of mugs are very durable and contain a 170x70mm printing area in which you can promote your company or brand identity while not breaking the budget. If you have a large workforce within the office spanning across many floors of a building, selecting a mug like this for each member of staff would be an efficient way to please your workforce cost effectively.

The large china coffee mug on the other hand is a more expensive yet higher quality product with a larger printing area to include your personalised company logo or sales message compared to the previous suggestion, this could suit a large workforce if your company has a larger budget, or a smaller workforce if you wish to keep the product quality at a high standard. The bold china mini tankard is a large, high quality and strong mug which could suit an office conference or meeting room for visitors to use. This type of mug has a large 210x50mm printing area to ensure the largest impact is given by your selected branding.

Brilliant Promotions offer many other styles of mugs with various printing options available to suit any budget or promotional requirements.

Branded Computer Products

At Brilliant Promotions there is a wide selection of computer merchandise available which is fully customisable to promote your contact details, company logo or campaign message. To give you an idea of products you could use, here are some examples:

• Customisable Mouse Mats
• Promotional Computer Mice
• Branded USB Flash Devices
• Various Personalised USB Gadgets

If your company is based in a large office building with hundreds of staff, a personalised mousemat at each computer with your company details brandished across them would give your company a strong image within the building and to any visitors you may have. Mousemats can vary from single low cost soft mats with a large printing area to higher quality hard mats complete with a USB hub and calculator to give more functionality to your workforce, again complete with a printing area suitable for placing your brand image and slogan.

Perhaps you could stretch to a customised mouse with your company name upon them to compliment the mousemat. Brilliant Promotions offer a selection of computer mice varying from standard desktop PC mice to smaller mice suitable for laptops and notebook computers. Perhaps if you, or your staff, often require laptops to present work or presentations during a meeting or conference, a personalised mouse and custom mouse mat to promote your company name, logo and brand identity would be an ideal way to get your company noticed. The Liquid Filled Computer Mouse is a high quality desktop mouse available at low costs and many promotional opportunities whereas the USB Optical Wireless Mouse could be a solution suitable for any laptop user.

Customised Data Storage

USB devices such as flash and pen drives are becoming more common everyday. With floppy disks having limited storage and compatibility issues as technology progresses, CD's and DVD's being at risk of being scratched and irreparable, flash drives are a safe solution for storage and transferring data between computers or buildings. What if your staff members had these drives available to use for transferring important documents between home and work, or to other companies to present products? Flash drives are a good, subtle solution to promote your company and brandish your logo when presenting data. The printing area may be small due to the size of the devices, but with your logo they will give a professional and modern image to your company.

Brilliant Promotions also have many other low cost, yet quality customisable computer products you can use to promote any information you wish to promote. Take a look around the site and decide what suits your budget and ideas.

Perhaps if your budget allowed it, you could provide delegates with a bag of their own, each with your logo and company message printed on them. Brilliant Promotions offer a vast selection of customisable bags to suit any budget such as the low cost yet high quality Nylon Conference Bag (70D) available in a selection of different colours to suit any brand colour scheme. Alternatively you could offer the slightly pricier Executive Laptop Case (Mayfair) with many more features and much more space your more important business clients may find this a better choice over the nylon conference bag.

What about the big clients? How about something like the Microfibre Business Laptop Briefcase, this will give your big clients a quality product to store their documents in while at a conference and will prominently display your sales message or company information.

Uses of Printed Document Folders

Brilliant Promotions offer a vast selection of different types of document folders that you can customise with various brand or company details. Here is a selection of items you could possibly use followed by an example situation for each one:

• Polypropylene Ring Binders
• Budget Conference Folder (Dartford)
• Elasticated Business Folder
• Ziparound Conference Folder With Calculator
• Many more!

If you are attending a conference hosted by another business but need to provide some information about your company or brand you should consider our low cost solutions. If there are a large number of people attending you could use the personalised ring binders we have available. If you prepare a selection of promotional packs into these ring binders you can take out a number of them from your customised bag when needed, each binder could include your company logo and contact details while containing valuable information about your company inside and just hand them out to each person at the conference.

If there will be a small number of people attending you could consider a different type of folder such as the conference folder which includes a section to add your documents about your company but also includes a pad and pen for people to take notes with if you are giving a talk on your brand. It allows colleagues to take the folder with them and allows them to use it at future conferences that can promote your brand and company further.

If you are hosting your own conference you can go down a slightly different route, with a large number of attendants you could use our printed elasticated business folders to store any important documents that attendees may find of use while providing everyone with a pad and pen to take notes with for the duration of the conference.

If there are few people attending your conference, or important business clients perhaps a better choice would be our conference folders which come complete with a calculator in case you need to discuss finances, prices or any other statistics during the conference. This allows all clients or colleagues to have your business logo and name on something they can use again and again for future meetings and events.

• Branded Pens
• Personalised Desk Tidy
• Custom Paperclip Dispensers
• Printed Writing Pad

With personalised pens offered to all delegates it would be a good idea to provide some spare stationary on the table in case of any problems, Brilliant Promotions offer desk tidy's that can be branded with your logo or slogan to sit in the centre of the table. If it is a large table you could get two or three spread about for easy access. There's not much use in giving out stationary if your visitors don't have anything to use them on, so why not use low cost promotional writing pads to give away with your company name and colours on the front. If you give out any leaflets or promotional information it would be a good idea to provide paperclips to ensure no documents are lost and are kept together in a neat fashion, we have dispensers that you can place your company name on and sit in the centre of the table to dish out paperclips quickly and efficiently when required.

Which Branded Pens?

Brilliant Promotions offer a wide choice of different branded pens to suit any clientele you may invite to a conference. The selection includes some of the following:

• Advertising Ball Pen
• Spring Ball Pen
• Satin Ball Pen (Mandi)
• Silver Cross Townsend Medalist Ball Pen
• Many, many more!

Personalised pens similar to the advertising ball pen are suitable in situations where you may have a lot of delegates visiting on a large scale conference. The low cost, yet high quality pens can be taken away by the delegates without worry of being cost ineffective and offer a large printing area for your logo or company message. The spring ball pen is of better quality, more modern and professional looking, but has a slightly smaller printing area to promote your business, however with the low cost stylish image it's a worthy choice.

The satin ball pen is more suitable for smaller conferences, while costing more than the previous two examples, this pen has two large print areas, one on the barrel, the largest thus far and the second on the clip. This means that if people are to take the pens away with them after the conference is over, you have twice the impact from your company slogan, advertising message, logo or contact information. As for the silver cross townsend medalist ball pen, this could be for small scale conferences for big, important clients. These pens are solid silver with 23carat gold appointments with a 35x5mm engraving area to have your company logo and sales message. The pens could be given to your clients when they leave as a corporate gift in their pristine presentation box and covered by a lifetime guarantee.

Your staff can wear a cap, displaying simply your company logo and name in the centre. A v-neck t-shirt or polo shirt with your brand logo and slogan on the front, with the company name and website address on the back for maximum impact. If it's a colder day or the event is held outside you could get them to wear a branded jacket with your logo and name printed on it, leave it unzipped for their personalised t-shirt underneath to promote a company message. If your budget allows it you could go as far as to have your staff wear branded trousers or shorts. A variety of colours are available from Brilliant Promotions, so you are sure to find colours to match your brand image and dress your staff in a similar style.

Promotional Clothing Giveaways

When attending an event, what better gift for people than something they can use. When it comes to clothing accessories these can usually be suitable for anybody:

• Branded Caps
• Customised Neckwear
• Personalised T-Shirt

If an event is being held during the summer months and the weather is warm, customised caps brandishing your company logo are a good low cost choice to give away to members of the public. It's something they can use on that same day and throughout the summer all the while showing off your company. If the event is made up of businessmen or office management, Brilliant Promotions can offer different types of neckwear such as ties that can discreetly be personalised with your company logo or campaign message. T-Shirts are offered in a selection of varied sizes and colours and are catered or men, women or children. This makes them a cheap and ideal solution for a give-away item at events. A personalised t-shirt with your company name, logo and website address or phone number could be used all year around by event attendees, with a selection of different colours available from Brilliant Promotions you are sure to please all members of public attending your event.

• Company Logo, Contact or Sales Information elegantly displayed
• Use of your Company Slogan or Motto
• Your brand stands out and gets noticed

All logos can be embroidered or screen-printed onto the clothing for a crisp and clean result for maximum impact to potential customers or clients. If you run a retail store, imagine the difference it would make if customers could pick out your members of staff for assistance from a distance by noticing the company name printed on the back of their shirt, or the company logo from the front. Your staff would stand out more as part of your store if their clothing included the same colours, text and logos as your promotional material around the store itself. The usage of this type of clothing doesn't have to start and end in a retail environment. You can also use the same concept for catering and restaurant staff, sports centres or gymnasiums, building and construction companies and crèche's or anywhere that works with children for parents to easily pick out members of staff at a glance.

Promotional Clothing Available

Brilliant Promotions offer a selection of t-shirts, fleeces and polo shirts as well as caps and a selection of other workwear accessories in styles suitable for men, women or children in a variety of different colours. How many items you could use is limited only by your needs. You could just have a t-shirt for staff members, with different coloured t-shirts for senior members and management all customised with your company branding in the same style, making it clear to customers what level staff they are speaking to.

If your staff will be working outside, why not give them a branded jacket or fleece as well as a cap, all displaying your logo and contact information to catch the eye of passers by and getting your brand noticed. Construction workers may be interested in personalised safety jackets for use on building sites to display the company logo and contact information available in a variety of sizes to suit men or women.