04-27-2023
Answering Your Questions About Corporate Event Gifts
FILED IN: Client & Corporate Gifts, Custom Gift Designs
Posted By: Jamie Kutchman
Are you interested in corporate event gifting or designing branded gifts for a conference or meeting on behalf of your business? We're answering your top questions about corporate event gifting. Whether you need custom branded swag gifts for a company party or team building retreat, or welcome gifts for an incentive trip or all-hands conference or trade show, we enjoy working with our corporate and business clients to design just the right gift for their corporate event.
If your goal is high quality corporate gifts and branded swag for your event, you're in the right spot and we've got all the answers you need to make this a smooth, stress-free process.
Here are your most frequently asked questions when it comes to corporate event gifts.
How much should I budget for corporate gifting?
Pricing per gift varies widely depending on the gift contents, quality of packaging, and finishing touches. With that said, here are some general guidelines that we often give to our clients.
For corporate welcome gifts that contain mostly snack items and are given at the hotel upon arrival, these usually fall between $50 - $150 each. For occasions commanding a higher level budget such as corporate incentive trips or executive conferences and retreats, these price points soar much higher. We tend to see these fall between $150 and $400 each, and up from there on occasion.
The average cost of corporate gifts can vary depending on several factors, such as the individual items and branding needs.
For more corporate event ideas and inspiration, be sure to check out our top custom corporate event gift designs of the year.
If gift recipients vary according to gender, age, interests, etc., how do you curate gifts that everyone will appreciate?
Great question and one we get literally all of the time! Most people attending a corporate event appreciate being welcomed with things that make their stay more comfortable such as savory snacks, sweet treats, and even some comforts from home like custom amenity kits.
These usually have universal appeal, and even more so when the snack items are sourced from small, artisan businesses. These small batch items aren’t usually found in the grocery store so they’re not something people are accustomed to seeing everyday so they are inherently more interesting to receive. In addition, I can’t think of anyone who doesn’t like supporting a small business or learning about a new brand to enjoy and even share with others.
When we know the recipient list is widely varied, we take all of these into consideration when coming up with our custom curations!
For more, you'll appreciate the unique ways that we've helped businesses convey their core values through gifting.
What are the most popular themes for corporate gifts these days?
Destination-themed gifts for incentive trips (usually to tropical locations!) are always extremely popular, as are any location-specific gift boxes. For more inspiration, you'll appreciate our top incentive trip gift designs of the year.
However, gifts curated according to a very specific theme are also something our clients want from us all of the time. Some recent designs have centered around charcuterie, coffee and tea, office and productivity, cocktails, and even gifts fully in support of small businesses.
For more, see these custom cocktail themed gifts two different ways that we designed for iHire.
How much branding should be included in the gift design?
If given full creative latitude, we prefer to design one to two gift components within the gift box, ones that make most sense to take a logo. We also like adding branding to a gift tag and notecard along with the packaging itself from time to time.
Our goal here is to strike the perfect balance between the creativity of a personal gift with the professional polish of a corporate gift. Not branding every single item in the box is the way to achieve this.
Certainly, there are circumstances where branding almost everything makes sense (ie if a client is announcing a rebrand and want their logo front and center) and in these instances, we recommend using the primary logo along with secondary logo versions to keep things interesting.
For unique ways that we've branded corporate gifts, you'll appreciate the custom gifts that we designed with branded totes and bags.
Our event date is coming soon, how can we get branded gifts quickly and easily?
We work with corporate partners all the time to get them branded gifts in large or small quantities quickly. If you need your event gifts at the last minute, don't worry, we have you covered with our flexible and on-demand gifting option called the Add-You-Own-Logo Program.
Our Add-You-Own-Logo Program is the perfect solution for when you need event gifts or welcome gifts for a conference, trip or meeting, and you need them fast. With this semi-custom gifting program, you may choose any curated gift design from the 100+ options in our online gift shop and we'll replace our branding with your company's branding and add a custom notecard.
For more inspiration, check out our top Add-Your-Own-Logo Program gift designs of the year.
If functional and high quality corporate event gifts is what you need for an upcoming event, meeting, incentive trip, conference or retreat, you'll find just the right solution with our corporate gifting options.
We look forward to working with you to design corporate event gifts that are a true reflection of your brand and help your event run smoothly.
3 Ways To Do Corporate Gifting With Marigold & Grey
When it comes to corporate gifting, gifts for your business, or gifts for your company's employees, clients or events, there are three unique ways to gift with Marigold & Grey.
#1: Custom Gift Design Service
If you're interested in elevated branded gifts for your company for employee appreciation, holiday or any corporate event in between, please get in touch with us to ask about our custom corporate gift design services. We'd love to work with you or your team to create something that reflects your company's brand with limitless options for customization to include branding the packaging, gift contents, printed collateral, and more.
#2: Add-Your-Own-Logo Program (i.e. Semi-Custom Gifts)
In addition to custom gift design, we also offer a thoughtful semi-custom gift design program with low order minimums and your company's logo and brand on each gift you send. Our Add-Your-Own-Logo Program is perfect for businesses that want to send company branded gifts either all at once for an event or particular marketing campaign OR throughout the year, on demand as you need them, for special occasions like employee appreciation, birthdays, client thank you gifts, and more.
#3: Ready-to-Ship Collection in our Online Shop
For curated gift sets and themed gift baskets that are easy to send for any occasion in life or work, don't forget to shop our curated collection of ready-to-ship gift boxes with quick turnarounds and no order minimums. These ship out within 1-3 business days; rush next-day shipping is also available at checkout.
Happy corporate gifting (or whichever method of gifting makes most sense for you)!
Images: Lissa Ryan Photography
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