It takes a little bit more get-up-and-go and time but it is worth it to gift eco-friendly or social corporate gifts instead of the general run-of-the-mill-drain-the-environment corporate gifts that are the popular gift fodder for numerous companies.

When you’re honouring hardworking employees and esteemed clients with environmentally friendly or socially friendly corporate gifts, you’re also promoting a green lifestyle that demonstrates your company cares about our earth and the less advantaged people so more will naturally cherish the gift.

Of course the best type of eco gift is one where you do not in fact give anything! There are numerous such gift alternatives now available such as Buy1GIVE1, Kiva and Change The Present.

When you use eco-friendly corporate gifts it’s always fundamental to consider your recipient. You’ll want to choose a gift that represents the gratitude you feel. Whether its for saying thank you for staying in the office late to meet tight deadlines or running that extra mile to close a sales deal, your team members committed their valuable time to the better your company. So the extra effort involved to create a special eco-gift or social gift is fitting considering the reason why you want to give the gift in the first place.

More and more customers and employees appreciate something that gives twice. They experience the greatest gift in knowing that a child, the environment, a school or other impressive causes have benefited because of them.

Several years ago no one would have thought that giving to a charity cause in the name of one of your customers or staff would be considered a meaningful gift. Well thankfully times have changed! Staff are seeking beyond material commodities these days and are wanting for new meaning in their work and life. Eco and Social gifts can be amazing presents.

Change the Present is a charity organisation that allows you to transform our world while giving to others. Just Google them to find out more.

Buy1GIVE1 is a special Singapore based organization that allows you as a business to give every time you sell something. This amazing concept of what they call transaction based giving is SO powerful when you know that you can share the joy of giving with your customers and staff – everyone can be engaged. Again Google them to find them under Buy1GIVE1 or B1G1.

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Awareness about corporate gifts is much lesser than that of personal gifts, which are given to friends and families by individuals. The rising business practice of giving special gifts to clients is not known to people as the gifts given by people to loved ones. Corporate gifts are very different in that they grow customer and brand loyalty often for a very small price. After all everyone enjoys to receive a gift.

Corporate gifts are most of the times valuable products, and they are often given away without any mark of the organization on the gift, as they are not for promotional purposes. However, at times organizations also give employees and prospective customers promotional items such as pen drives, pens, key-chains and office utility items that are emblazoned with the business logo.

The gifts to be given by the company should be chosen according to the needs and desires of the individual for whom the gift is intended. Although custom and costly gift items are given to key customers of the company, the company personnel are usually given a standard gift, which is generally not costly, but has good utility.

In order to strengthen and promote a healthy association with a customer or an employee of the organization, it is important to remember that the perceived value of the corporate gift is critical. Before giving a corporate gift, you should enquire with your legal department regarding any restrictions that may have been enforced by law on this act.

Preparation for giving corporate gifts involves estimating a budget, arriving at the number of gifts, and finding out offers available in the market for a bulk purchase. The preparation is more important with respect to employee gifts, even more so if your business is a mid-sized or large corporation. It is important to ensure that there are sufficient gifts to express your appreciation to every deserving employee.

In conclusion, the practice of giving a corporate gift to your customers and employees is a good way to build sound working relationships. However, always make sure that it is allowed by government regulations, and of course, by your financial position.

If you focus on event photography you can make quite a bit of money. It is a varied and widely saught after field of photography.

How to do it

Cover only events where it is hard for people to take the pics themselves and where they will want to keep their memories frozen in film.

One idea is to go to kids sports events. Get permission from the coach to click pics for the parents watching and then start clicking away. If you turn up with a great big telephoto lense like the ones used for pro coverage of events, you will be taken seriously. Make sure you get all the kids doing great action shots and then hand out flyers to all the kids parents watching with you’re web address. If you can get hold of the parents email address so you can email them the URL of you site then upload the pics to your web site that day and email everyone. If you have a simple shopping cart set up you can make money in a few hours as people pop in to see the pics and buy them for $20 or more a pop.

You can do a similar thing with weddings. Take all the normal shots as part of the wedding coverage but then get your URL printed on the wedding invites and all the other wedding materials and also get an email list of all the wedding guests, offer the couple a nice 20% discount for doing this and then take lots of extra pics at the wedding of the guests doing all the things they do. Upload all the pics to your site and send the emails. You will then make a lot more money than the 20% discount it cost you because then 30 or 40 people will be also buying your pics at $20 or more a shot straight from your site. Also charging them more for higher resolution shots is a great bonus income as well.

The trick is to find a niche where you can excel by being the best photographer in the room, and offering an easy way for people to buy your photos.

Dog shows, fashion shows, horse shows, car shows, livestock competitions, rock shows, – the list goes on. Keep your eye out in the events section of your local paper to see what is happening. Always ask for permission to shoot pics and if you need to offer the people 10% of the income if feel you need to so you can get easy access.