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With many people feeling the effects of this drawn out recession its the best time to use morale building techniques to help your business, staff and families. Working in marketing I thought I would write 5 top tips for using Christmas hampers to your benefit. The first technique would be to use Christmas hampers to promote sales, this could be by offering them as a prize to encourage people to sign up to your mailing list. Alternatively by providing a hamper to a long term customer you are letting them know that you value there custom. If you are about to promote a certain brand its worth offering Food Hampers as a prize. As an incentive you could say that when you buy an item you will immediately be placed in the prize draw for this luxury Christmas hamper. The recession can make you to careful with rewards and offers, a ... read more

When it comes to Christmas, many people find that they enjoy shopping for their loved ones more than anything else. Of course, there is the good food, the expensive wine, and all of the beautiful lights. However, many people that they get a lot out of the experience of giving gifts to their friends, neighbors, and family. Heck, some people even get so in the holiday spirit that they purchase Christmas gift ideas for their co-workers, for the mail carrier and in some cases, the garbage man. As you can see, it is easy to find yourself with a long list of people that you want to Christmas shop for. So where do you begin? The stress that comes with the shopping goes deeper than just dealing with the thousands of other people all rushing around to do the same thing you are because there is the feeling that ... read more

What do you get a 10 year old boy for Christmas? What are his interests? By the age of ten, a child would pretty much have a strong opinion about what he wants. He may be totally crazy about Pokemon, or basketball with hopes of joining the school team. At that age, what his peers think about him is important. He’d want to be with the in crowd. To have what the cool kids in school have. Maybe a cell phone or an MP3 player. Or the super yo-yo. Or whatever’s the current craze in school. What he likes is not necessarily what his father liked when he was ten years old. Dad may have loved Lego sets and Star Wars when he was ten years old. If you ask a ten year old today if he’d like a light saber or something from Star Wars for Christmas, he’s likely to give you a blank stare. The in-thing now that my ten-year old and his pals are crazy about are nerf guns. Boys love weapons. Toy guns or anything they can sh... read more