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Business gifts are an excellent way to cement good relationships with your staff, clients and other business associates. The key to giving memorable business gifts is to make them unique – but not just by choosing unique business gifts. You can also be unique by giving gifts on holidays when they’re not expected. Everyone expects business gifts from their associates at the holidays, but gifts that come at unusual times are far more memorable if only because they’re not surrounded by dozens of other gifts given at the same time. Here’s a list of unusual and different holidays on which your company can make a tradition of sending business gifts.

Take your cue from their corporate calendar.

You can really increase your corporate stock with other businesses when you acknowledge THEIR special days. It takes a little effort, but it’s well worth it to find out when the annual board meeting is held, or make a note of the company’s founding date so that you can acknowledge special anniversaries. You’ll be remembered when you remember the company’s tenth anniversary with business gifts for the executive board, or send a small “Good Luck” gift before a major corporate event.

Acknowledge your staff on special “holidays”.

There are commercial “holidays” meant to recognize the staff that makes your business possible. Give business gifts to your own staff on Professional Secretary’s Day (April 24) but don’t forget the staff of your most important clients. Recognize the secretary of your best clients with business gifts to let them know how much you appreciate their assistance in scheduling appointments.

Remember important personal days of your staff.

Business gifts are not just for business occasions. You can make it a tradition to give a specific birthday gift to all staff on their birthdays, or acknowledge weddings, anniversaries and new births with the kinds of gifts that you’d hand out to executive clients.

Recognize career day at local schools with business gifts for students.

Does the local school hold an annual career day? Does your town sponsor a Take the Kids to Work Day? Acknowledge the occasion with inexpensive business gifts and promotional products printed with the company name. For schools, you might hand out printed notebooks and pens, Frisbees, even printed USB drives to increase name recognition for your company while raising good will for your company name.

Give “green” business gifts on Earth Day.

Encourage green thinking while boosting your company’s name recognition with business gifts and promotional products on Earth Day. You might make a point of handing out travel mugs to encourage people not to use disposable cups, or 100% recycled note pads printed with the company name.

Celebrate May Day with business gifts for the day off.

May Day is the traditional start of summer, so it’s an ideal time to recognize the summer pursuits. You might gift your best business clients with executive business gifts like picnic baskets or golfing gifts, or hand out personalized flower packets to your entire customer mailing list with a salutation for the coming season.

There are many holidays that you can acknowledge with business gifts and promotions for your customers and staff. For more ideas, visit one of the many online suppliers of promotional products and business gifts.