We love Spirit Sleeves as the newest way to show your team spirit! We can imprint your company logo, team logo, event logo, and sponsor logos on these polyester lycra fabric sleeves.

The full color sublimated design and large imprint area give us lots of room for creativity and showing off your team colors!

And did we mention they are made in the USA!

We recommend Spirit Sleeves as an event memento for sporting events, pep rallies, product showcases, and conventions that draw a youthful crowd. And they can be used as an event credential in lieu of a ticket or wristband.

Pricing starts at $4.80/piece for 100 sleeves. Pricing is just $3.10/piece for 1000 sleeves. We offer price breaks for quantities of 250 and 500. The setup charge is $200/order. Production time takes 2 weeks after you approve a proof.

Contact us for additional discounts that may apply to your order.

Spirit Sleeves generate excitement for your event!

Sometimes a giftbox makes the difference between a good business gift and a great one.

These Etched Glassware Sets are a perfect example.  They come boxed two to a set.  As the gift giver, the box makes it easy for you!

• The decorative photo on the box reveals your gift.
• The handle pops up so it’s easy to carry.
• The glasses are packed securely inside.

A giftbox approach like this makes the gift feel more valuable to the receiver.  It’s the reason that big box retailers spend so much money on decorative retail packaging around the holidays!

But with a customized business gift like these Etched Glassware Sets, there’s an added benefit.  Your logo and commemorative text are custom etched on each glass.  So whether the etching is large and prominent or subtle and discrete, the logo turns the glasses from a gift into a memento.

This makes your gift-giving gesture even more meaningful for the receiver!

For more information on these sets or other convenient holiday business gifts, contact us at www.promomento.com

The Steelers made it to the Super Bowl once again!  Can you hear the Terrible Towels waving in our office?!  Seems like a good time to republish one of our most popular articles:  Super Bowl Lessons for Project Teams.

Successful projects and Super Bowl teams have a lot in common.  As you watch the big game, check out these seven practices that Super Bowl teams do really well.   Who will win the game?  Our money is on the team that does these seven the best.

Need a crystal gift for your key contributors ?  Or an eco-friendly gift made of recycled materials for your new Corporate Sustainability initiative?  Finding that gift just got easier at Promomento.  We now give you the ability to search for gifts by material.  We have eight new ‘materials’ categories for our gifts including:  metal, eco-friendly, glass, wood, simulated leather, leather, crystal, and art glass.  Visit our new Gifts By Material page for details.

We sorted through lots of holiday business gift options, and came up with these fifteen gifts as our picks for the 2010 business gift-giving season.  What made the list?  An assortment of gifts to fit a range of budgets.  A whimsical desktop toy, scrumptious holiday themed chocolate, some crystal and wooden gifts, a couple of new office desk accessories, and an umbrella that brings new meaning to the expression “blue skies ahead”.  To see photos of our picks, click here.   If you want to see more options, just give us a ring.

As the owner of a business gift company, I collect lessons learned about choosing the best business gifts and giveaways.  This article summarizes 10 lessons learned from the most common business gift situations.  These practical tips will help you shop for year-end awards and holiday gifts for your team members and customers.   Read article here….

Need ideas for business gifts for your project team?

Each summer we publish our Guide to the Most Popular Business Team Gifts.  We compile this Guide based on sales, industry data, and feedback from customers.  To help you plan ahead, we also include a list of rising stars.  These are up-and-comer gifts that we predict will gain popularity.

Here’s a link to our 2010 gift guide.

Need even more ideas?  Here are links to guides from the previous years.

Our 2009 Business Gift Guide: Team Favorites: A Guide to the Most Popular Project Team Gifts

Our 2008 Business Gift Guide:   Team Favorites: A Guide to the 10 Most Popular Team Gifts

If  you are having trouble figuring out what business gift to buy your team, here are three questions to help guide you toward an answer.

1.  What’s your budget?  By figuring out your budget before you start shopping, you save time by focusing only on gifts you can afford.

2.  What purpose do you want your gift to serve?  Many business gifts fall into four categories:  fun, ornamental, monetary, and functional.  (Some gifts cross categories.)

• Fun gifts are office toys like stress balls, desktop games, and puzzles.
• Ornamental gifts are things like awards, plaques, and trophies.
• Monetary gifts include bonuses, cash prizes, and gift cards.
• Functional gifts are the largest category.  They include office accessories, personal accessories, apparel, electronics, and a host of other gifts that the recipient can put to use.

3.  How well do you know the recipients’ taste?  If you are giving to a small team and you know each person’s taste very well, then you can select gifts catered to their hobbies and personal interests.  If you don’t know their taste well, we recommend against gifts that require you to know something personal about the recipient.  For example:

• Apparel (you need to know their size and fit preference)
• Liquor (you need to know their personal habits)
• Food (unless you have knowledge of food allergies and religious restrictions)
• Gifts associated with specific religious holidays (unless you are sure they celebrate the holiday).

Here are some types of gifts we recommend if you don’t know the recipient very well.  These gifts are safe because they are things most people use.  They are also semi-permanent…which means they don’t last forever and it’s OK to own more than one of them.

• For functional personal gifts we recommend:
  • Umbrellas
  • Sports/recreational watches (people are more open to the style of a sports watch than a daily watch)
  • Duffel bags and cooler bags
• For functional office gifts we recommend:
  • Desk caddies and sticky note holders
  • Pens and laser pointers
  • USB flash drives
  • Leather or simulated leather jotter pads (small enough to fit in a glove box)
• For fun gifts we recommend:
  • Games that are familiar favorites for the culture.  In America these include checkers, tic tac toe, or dice games
  • Easy puzzles
  • Games with no correct answer like desktop sandboxes and magnetic sculptures
• For ornamental gifts we recommend the following guidelines:
  • Not too big (the award should not take up too much desktop or wall space)
  • Include display or mounting hardware
  • Select universally appealing colors.  In America these are blue, black, red, metallic gold, and metallic silver
  • Select a simple design with clean lines

We also recommend speaking with someone else who knows the team well before making your final selection.  A second opinion can help solidify your selection or provide you with additional gift ideas.  If you would like the opinion of gift giving professionals, we’re always here to help at info@promomento.com or 1-877-628-4646.

Did you know that spring is the best time to order your custom imprinted holiday cards?  This tip surprises many of our customers.  Greeting card companies offer deep discounts for orders placed during the spring…so they can keep their printing presses and staff busy during this ‘down time’.  And we pass the savings onto our customers.

You can save 50% or more on orders placed during May and June, plus get freebies like free return address printing on envelopes.  We can even delay the shipping and billing of your holiday card order until October.

This is a great deal for businesses with a predictable list of clients and partners who receive a card each year.  Small businesses can manage their budgets better by sending custom-imprinted holiday cards to their ‘top 100′ customers, and electronic holiday cards to all other customers.

Here are links to our two favorite card collections:

Traditional greeting cards printed on classic paper styles

Modern greeting cards digitally printed on smooth paper

We can also suggest lightweight, mailable promotional items to include inside your holiday cards.  Contact us for the latest ‘mailable’ inserts.

Gifts with American Flag images are a festive way to celebrate Memorial Day, the 4th of July, Labor Day, President’s Day…and other patriotic occasions.   Budgets are tight for many of our customers.   To keep your expenses down, we recommend our American Flag chocolate bars and our American Flag mints.  The chocolate bars come in a case of 50…and they are an easy way to spread the patriotic spirit among your team members and employees.  The American Flag mints are sold in a case of 1000…and they make a festive addition to your office candy bowl or reception area.  For more patriotic gift ideas, check out our Patriot Gift page.

American Flag chocolate bars

American Flag mints