Spring is here and with spring life often begins to pick up its pace.  Many events happen in the spring.  Graduations, weddings and promotions often take place in the spring in addition to the year round parade of birthdays, babies, anniversaries and other milestone events.

Taking note of such important events in the lives of both your clients and your staff helps to build and strengthen relationships. Having a ready stock of all-occasion and congratulatory greeting cards on hand will make this even simpler.  Corporate greetings don’t need to just be for the holidays. Sending business greetings out throughout the year can be an even more effective way to stay in touch with your clients and remind them that you are ready to serve them. Many business greeting cards can be customized with a personalized message, making it easier than ever to stay on top of things.

And for those important occasions when you really want to make an impact, consider including a custom personalized gift or token with your greetings.  With personalized corporate gifts that are as simple as a logo calendar to personalized items that fit in with your business focus or the theme of the occasion.

Take a moment today to replenish your stock of professional, custom business greetings and custom promotional products so you can be prepared to serve your clients this spring.

Your staff is your company’s most valuable asset. Making sure employees know they and their contributions are valued is essential to the continued health and growth of your business. Does your corporation have an employee recognition program?  Do you honor and highlight those employees who have gone above and beyond or exceeded expectations and goals in some way?

Hammond can help you to recognize and honor those employees with something more substantial and significant than a paper certificate and a pat on the back. Hammond has an extensive selection of beautiful awards, plaques and trophies perfect for recognizing those outstanding members of your corporation.  With more than 700 different custom corporate recognition items, made of acrylic, glass, crystal, wood, marble and other quality materials, there is sure to be an award that fits your company perfectly.  Awards include etching or engraving and many awards have space to include your company logo as well as employee names.   Whether you need an employee-of-the-month plaque, an outstanding team trophy or a beautiful retirement recognition, there is sure to be an award that fits your corporate image.

Providing tangible recognition of employee accomplishment and service can be a powerful tool for building a strong and loyal team. Make employee recognition something to be sought after and eagerly anticipated with beautiful corporate awards.

Time is a precious commodity. We are only allotted a certain amount. We cannot save it, stockpile it or hoard it.  We must use it as it comes, one day, one hour, one minute at a time.

In the business world, time is important. Business people keep calendars, sometimes multiple calendars to help them manage their time and make the most of it.

So, why not give your clients the gift of time.  While you can’t actually give them minutes and hours, you can give them the gift of a beautiful personalized and imprinted wall calendar, desk planner or pocket planner to help them keep track of their appointments and occasions.

The gift of a calendar and planner makes an excellent corporate thank-you gift.  And giving your customers a calendar personalized with your company logo and information will turn it into a constant reminder of your business relationship and your thoughtfulness.

Hammond offers desk calendars, wall calendars, planners and even digital calendars in a wide variety of styles suitable for many industries.  They offer as many price ranges as well, making the gift of time affordable for every corporate budget.

Don’t waste another minute trying to decide on a suitable thank-you for your valued clients. Give them a personalized gift of time from Hammond today.

Golf Tournaments are a popular and effective way for many non-profit organizations to make money.  They are also a popular add-on to industry conventions and conferences.  With so many people taking up the game of golf these days, golf tournaments have become a nearly  essential part of many business events. Planning such an event, though, can be a daunting task.  With everything from cards that can be custom printed as invitations to participation incentives to awards and gifts for your winners, Hammond can make planning your next corporate golf tournament a breeze.

Hammond offers a wide variety of completely customizable golf-related promotional products to help promote your organization or event.  Not only can you create custom-printed gifts and awards with your company logo for your participants, you can give other companies an incentive to sponsor your event by offering them the opportunity to have their corporate logos imprinted on gift items for your participants.  Custom-imprinted Golf Bag Tags, Golf Tees and logo Golf Balls are just a few of the dozens of golf-related items Hammond can customize for your event.

And for your tournament winners, Hammond offers beautiful engravable trophies and plaques as well as more substantial gifts such as personalized putters and golf bags.

So, if you’ve been thinking about adding a golf tournament to your next corporate event, but have been worried about how to make it work, let Hammond help you take the stress out of planning and score a hole-in-one with your organization.

Spring is in the air and that means it will soon be time to dust off your golf clubs and hit the links.  Do you have clients who are avid golfers? With nearly 30 million Americans embracing the sport, chances are your clients are among them. Hitting a around with clients or potential clients is a time-honored business tradition.  Make your clients’ next rounds memorable with custom-printed promotional golf gift swag from Hammond. Whether you give your client something as simple as a logo Golf Ball Marker with your corporate logo or as useful as a custom logo  Golf Towel for their bag, your company is sure to come to mind every time they head for the course.

Finding ways to tie your business to your customers’ favorite leisure time activity is an excellent way to create a positive image of your company for them.  Low-key marketing with custom promotional items can produce much longer lasting results at a lower overall cost than an expensive marketing campaign.  Using custom-printed promotional items from Hammond with your corporate logo that customers will see repeatedly as they use these items creates a constant reminder of your business relationship.

In addition to gifts for golfers, Hammond has promotional products for nearly every leisure-time activity.  There’s sure to be something that will spark the interest of your customers and help your business to be number one with your customers during both work and play. Visit us at www.hammond.com.

Branding and name recognition is an important part of business building and marketing.  There are many different ways to build brand recognition for your company, both visually and from a service standpoint.  As you train your staff to provide the services and products that will build your company’s reputation, you should also think about building your brand visually by giving them a unified look.

In addition to presenting a neat and professional appearance in the office, it is the time of year when many companies begin planning their participation in trade shows, conferences and conventions.  Providing your staff with custom logo apparel from Hammond can give your company an added boost of recognition at these events.  With everything from Men’s and Ladies’ Business Shirts, Polo Shirts and Jackets to caps, t-shirts and athletic wear in your company colors, embroidered or printed with your logo, there is a nearly endless variety of styles and clothing that can make your team instantly recognizable on and off the trade show floor.

Using quality corporate logo apparel as part of your branding strategy can help in not only building that recognition for your company but can also give your staff a sense of unification and help with team building.  Whether they are presenting at a conference, running your booth at the trade show or meeting with clients, custom logo apparel is a simple, professional  and low-key way to keep your brand in the spotlight at all times.

Custom corporate logo apparel can be one of the most cost-effective and visible ways to build name recognition and branding for your company. Check out Hammond’s quality and variety today and give your brand a boost.

The business world is getting more competitive every day.  Businesses need to build brand recognition and make themselves memorable in multiple ways to stay ahead of the competition.

The first way to be memorable, of course, should be by providing stellar products and first-class customer service.  There is no substitute for a quality company. Once you’ve established that, though, what else can you do to keep that competitive edge and keep your company first on the list.

Creative marketing can help a company stand out from the competition.  Providing both potential and established customers with a “memory jogger”—something that will help them remember you is an excellent way to help them keep you in mind.  A memory jogger can be as simple as a custom-printed magnet that will find a home on the front of a customer’s refrigerator or  file cabinet or it can be something that specifically ties in to your company’s products or services.  For example, calculators or calendars imprinted with the logo of a financial services company,  custom-printed sports balls for a sporting goods store and travel mugs emblazoned with your coffee company’s logo are all excellent ways to help your customers remember who they want to do business with.

Custom-printed promotional products (i.e. SWAG) don’t have to break the bank.  When looked at as part of your overall marketing strategy or campaign, these items can actually provide an excellent value.  Hammond offers great prices on everything from custom-printed magnets, key chains, lanyards, totes  and other trade show giveaways to beautiful thank-you gifts or drawing prizes, sure to attract raves from the recipients.

Whether you are looking for ways to attract new business and be memorable at your next trade show or conference or whether you want to provide an unforgettable thank-you to your established clients, consider custom-printed promotional items that can give your brand a boost without busting your budget.

Custom greeting cards are an excellent way to add a personal touch to your business communications.  They can help increase business, keep you fresh in your customers’ minds and boost staff morale.

Greeting cards can add up.  The average price of a generic greeting card at a stationery shop is about $3.  Add to that the time taken from your already busy day to travel to the store and select and purchase cards. Most business people have trouble finding time in their day for another task. There is a simple solution.  You can order your corporate greeting cards in bulk, saving both time and money.

Whether you need a quantity of the same type of card, like a birthday greeting or thank-you card, or whether you need an assortment of different greetings, Hammond offers beautiful custom cards in quantities as low as 25 cards.  Some cards can even be personalized with your company name or logo.  Purchasing corporate greetings in bulk is an excellent value and enables you to always have the right greeting card on hand.

By ordering your corporate greeting cards from Hammond, not only will you save time and money, but you will always be prepared to recognize, thank or welcome a staff member or customer without delay.

Promotional gifts and giveaways can be an effective part of a company’s marketing strategy.  Whether they are thank-you gifts for customers, trade show trinkets or part of a product launch or marketing campaign, promotional gifts can be a great way to keep your name in front of your customers long after that initial contact. How can you help make sure your promotional giveaway will be a hit?  Here are a few tips for the making the most of promotional gifts.

Make it relevant to your business. Choose a giveaway item that relates to your business in some way.  Are you a beverage company? Consider choosing bottle or can openers, beverage cups or can holders.  An outdoor gear business might choose compasses, flashlights or pocket knives.  Creative connections are perfectly acceptable as well. An HVAC company might give away thermometers or even cooling car reflectors.

Plan a giveaway item that is useful and memorable to your customers. Writing implements, sticky notes and notepads are among the first items that come to mind for many businesses, and sometimes get passed by because they are so common. But these items are very likely to be used by your customers, exposing them to your name and message over and over again.  Consider other high-use items for your customers as well.  Any imprinted promotional giveaway that the recipients will use repeatedly means your message  and your company will be regularly in their minds.  Even magnets and business cards that get posted on a refrigerator or bulletin board add to increased exposure to your company.

And once you’ve chosen your promotional giveaway, be sure to put your company information on it. Whenever possible, giveaways should include at least your company name/logo, website and phone  number. If there is room, include a short slogan or phrase that will help the recipients remember who you are and what you do and why they want to do business with you.

With a little forethought and planning, promotional products can be a part of a very effective marketing campaign to help your business grow.

Employee morale can often be strengthened by attention to seemingly small details.  One of the simplest and most effective is remembering employee’s birthdays.  While office parties can be lots of fun, they are often inconvenient and it can be difficult to celebrate every birthday.  A much simpler and equally effective way is to observe your staff member’s birthdays with a personalized birthday card.

A birthday card with a handwritten message of congratulations and thanks inside lets employees know that you are thinking of them and are aware of important events in their lives.  Observing and remembering employee birthdays does not have to be expensive or complicated.  Ordering bulk birthday cards from Hammond allows you to plan ahead and have a ready supply of cards on hand so you won’t miss a single birthday.  Hammond has a great selection of business birthday cards that come in preselected assortments for additional personalization.

When purchasing bulk birthday cards, greetings can be prepared ahead of time and delivered on the big day to make sure you don’t miss a single employee.  The simple act of remembering and honoring each employee can help to boost morale and build a sense of family and camaraderie among your staff, leading to higher productivity and employee retention.