Business Gifts Blog

How did Apple, Amazon, Tesco, Coca-Cola and Subway get to the very top? How do they continue to dominate the market? What are the key differences between them and their competitors?
In a huge worldwide study, Brand Learning surveyed over 2,000 marketers in more than 50 countries to try and find the answer. What they found [...]

Following on from last week's article on how to grow your business in a recession, this article discusses how you know when you have succeeded in outgrowing your local town.
Almost half of UK small business owners are determined to work hard this year to grow their business and 64% are up for new challenges. For [...]

Half of UK small and midsized companies expect to grow their business this year, with over 60% of them being ready to take on challenges and 10% hoping for a 10-20% growth. If you have already outgrown your local town and are receiving orders from a wider area, it is time to work out a [...]

Learning to delegate job duties can be the key to improving your managerial skills and boosting company productivity as a result. Follow these tips below to manage your workload effectively, when you are no longer able to do this alone.

Tip 1 – Match up duties with employees
Make a list of things needed to be done [...]

Are passionate workers born or made? They say passion is a cultivated feature of one’s character; it is something that gives you a reason to wake up in the morning, overcome challenges and achieve your most ambitious career goals. To help maintain that fire inside, there are 5 simple ways you can keep focused on [...]

The art of exceptional business gifts
1 – A variety of items
Whether you are looking to reward your employees or invest in some marketing collateral, any business gifts or promotional materials you choose should be bought with the occasion, recipient and your relationship with them in mind. For example, trophies are the best for award ceremonies [...]

The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee is 3 months away but there are already lots of discussions among senior managers about whether or not to celebrate it in the workplace.

Bankers have been highlighting the negative effect that an additional Bank Holiday will have on the economy while business owners grumble about losing a day’s trade.
So with all [...]

Most executive level professionals seem to take on a lot of responsibilities in the workplace, as well as contribute time outside of work to filling in the gaps. Often, this is in direct competition with their free time available for families and hobbies, and sometimes a little token of appreciation goes a long way to [...]

Hundreds of reports and studies, such as this one from the Incentive Research Foundation, made across the marketing and employee recognition sectors prove that staff motivation is essential to the success of an organisation. Undertaking employee engagement surveys as well as giving staff corporate awards on a monthly/yearly basis are the first steps to creating a rewarding [...]

Putting the hours in is a given for any aspiring business person and for managers, getting their staff to work hard is a desirable skill. But when should the focus move from working hard to working smart?
Our sister site promotional-gifts-co.com is debating this over on their blog where they are using the infographic below to discuss [...]