Employee holiday gifts have been sent... now what?

As we near the end of the biggest gifting time of the year, you may be looking forward to what’s next. Maybe you’re thinking about upcoming time off, a big project, or new goals to hit. Perhaps, you're anticipating new team members to train or an offering you'll be introducing to the market.

Measuring the success of your business gifting program

When it comes to gifts, developing a concrete understanding of your program’s performance can be a little tricky. 

9 December business gifting opportunities

When you think of gift-giving opportunities in December, you likely first think of the holidays. While that is definitely a reason to send a gift, we’ve rounded up additional gift-giving opportunities to consider this month. That being said, we’re still going to start by talking about the holidays.

Loop & Tie evolves gifting experience with Brand Collections

When we set out to build Loop & Tie, we had a choice.

Gifting that gives back: Supporting small businesses

79% of consumers say that their purchasing decisions are influenced by a brand’s sustainability practices. But when you think about sustainability, do you solely think about environmental sustainability? What about economic or social sustainability? 

11 November business gifting opportunities

Including holidays, there are several gifting opportunities in November that your business could take advantage of to connect with your employees and customers. Keep reading for 11 gifting occasions to consider.

Pathmonk Present podcast features Loop & Tie

A few weeks ago, our CMO MK Getler-Porizkova sat down with Pathmonk for their Pathmonk Presents podcast to talk about the importance of curating a community. 

8 October business gifting opportunities

From celebratory weeks to Halloween, October is packed with business gifting opportunities. Don’t wait until the holidays to let your team, customers, and prospects know how appreciated they are. Keep reading to gain eight ideas on when to time your gifts this month.

How to recycle the packaging from your Loop & Tie gift

To say sustainable practices are a passion for us here at Loop & Tie might be an understatement. As the first and only regenerative gifting platform, we are committed to leaving the world in a better place than where we found it. To help you reduce your carbon footprint, here is a step-by-step guide on recycling the packaging from your Loop & Tie gift. 

4 benefits of sending employee & client holiday gifts

Is your company debating what to do for holiday gifts this year? Is your company debating whether or not you should send gifts at all this year?

Your corporate holiday gifting guide

Showing a little appreciation in the workplace has proven to boost positive feelings, productivity, retention, and loyalty. A great way to show your gratitude is through the gesture of gifting. As we near the holiday season – one of the biggest gifting occasions of the year – it’s important to start planning your employee and client gift sends. Use this guide to help you plan, budget, and send your corporate holiday gifts.

3 considerations for sending corporate gifts internationally

Today, more US-based companies are global than ever before. As the pandemic pushed companies to adopt remote work models, it has become increasingly common for workforces to be split across city, state, and country lines.

8 September business gifting opportunities

There are a lot of professional recognition weeks and celebratory days in September, and we’ve rounded up eight of them that make perfect business gifting opportunities. 

Do your vendor relationships align with your brand values?

As we’ve evolved to a more digital-centric world, consumers and employees are holding companies accountable to greater transparency in how and why they do business. This transparency in values and their expression in business practices is increasingly the most important variable in a consumer’s decision to partner with a brand. Shared values build and establish trust, which is key during a time when there’s little customer trust in corporations.

Gifts that give back: Loop & Tie + 10 Million Women

In honor of Women’s Equality Day on August 26, Loop & Tie has partnered with 10 Million Women to develop a collection supporting women-owned businesses. When you send a gift, your recipients feel appreciated. When you send a gift from Loop & Tie + 10 Million Women, you can feel good knowing you’re giving a gift that gives back.

Business News Daily features corporate gifting solutions

With the holidays coming up, it’s important to figure out who you’ll partner with to deliver great gifts to your employees and customers. To help, Business News Daily recently published 22 Businesses That Make Gift-Giving Easier which features Loop & Tie. As you’re evaluating your options, know that we offer:

7 August business gifting opportunities

At Loop & Tie, we believe there are multiple gifting opportunities throughout the year, not just at the holidays. Whether to show appreciation, thank a customer, or increase engagement, here are six gifting opportunities for August.

Why is personalized corporate gifting important?

You’ve heard this several times already, but I'm going to say it again. How we work has changed in recent years and continues to evolve. This is impacting how companies connect with their employees, prospects, clients, and customers. 

5 best practices for sending gifts to customers

Sending gifts to customers is a great way to keep customers engaged with companies, thank them for their patience as a problem is resolved and around the holidays. Taking that extra step to show them that they’re appreciated can leave a favorable impression in their mind and can help build brand affinity and ultimately — customer loyalty. 

6 best practices when giving employee gifts

Throughout the year, there are plenty of excuses to give your employees gifts. Whether to celebrate a promotion, anniversary, holiday or other occasion, demonstrating your appreciation through gifting can help keep your team engaged and motivated at work. 

How Your Gifting Can Support Breast Cancer Awareness This Month

As Breast Cancer Awareness month begins, I feel empowered to work for such a mission-backed company that opens up the conversation on impactful gifting and support. Each month we strive to highlight a diverse group of makers and charitable groups within our curated gift collections. I knew that when my first October rolled around with Loop & Tie, my voice would be welcomed as to how to support this mission given my personal connection to the disease.

Cultivating Customer Happiness

Today, customer acquisition and loyalty are driven by community. Brands are as powerful as their happiest (and unhappiest) customers, making community-building critical to cultivating customer happiness.  

You did so much in 2020. Thank you.

First... we were able to support more than 500 small businesses. The more gifts you sent - the more we engaged with small businesses to fulfill the orders.

The Art of Client Follow Up

Why follow up? Not only is the client follow-up an excellent way to establish a stronger bond with a new potential customer (and to bring you ever closer to that famous rule of seven to grow your business), it’s also one of the best ways to create repeat business with existing customers. Just after the original sale, your customer is likely still feeling positive feelings about the interaction—but the more time you allow to pass between each communication, the more likely those feelings are to fade. An effective follow-up not only extends that post-meeting period, it also sets up your client to be more likely to make an additional purchase or to make a referral. 

How Gifting - the Right Way - Builds Client Trust

One of the key things in any relationship is trust - and business relationships aren’t much different.

How to Send a Gift on Loop & Tie

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Gratitude in Corporate Gifting

Think about the best gift you ever received. Maybe it was a car on your sixteenth birthday. Or a coveted toy on a long-ago Christmas morning. Or perhaps a long-awaited trinket passed down from a parent. Whatever the gift, what you most likely remember is how validated it made you feel and, in turn, the gratitude you felt towards the giver.

The Anti-Gift Guide: the guide to getting the right present, every time

Tis the season where every brand will release a thoughtful, well-meaning guide for “what to buy your mom/boyfriend/boss/stranger this holiday season.” Yet, a recent survey conducted by Pureprofile looked at 2,000 American adults and found that the average person received at least one unwanted gift during the holiday season.

The Best Times to Send Client Gifts, by Client Type

There is no one-time to send business gifts to your clients, nor is there one person the gift should go to when your client is a large company.  A general rule of thumb is to send gifts to: (1) decision makers; (2) your champions at the client; (3) and teams that you work with.