A Season of Giving (Clients Gifts)
November 29, 2018 10:42 AM Subscribe
Every year we send our clients/partners gifts. This year I'm having a really hard time figuring out what to send. We generally send two types of gifts - Good Gifts ($15-$35) and Really Good Gifts ($50-$100) depending on seniority of client partner. Help?
I run a "boutique" digital product agency. We work primarily with clients in the media and entertainment space building web sites, mobile apps, voice powered experiences and, our primary niche, smart TV, OTT (roku, apple tv) and Game Console apps). Our clients are the likes of NPR, Comcast, Red Bull Media House, Bravo TV, iHeartRadio and Amazon Music.
In this role we usually have two types of primary points of contact with our clients. The day to day Project/Product managers, designers and engineers that we interact with over the life of a project as well as the Senior Manager (VP or higher) who ultimately decides to pay our bills. We try to get fun, unique gifts for these folks at two different price points. In the past it's been things like Alexas and Google Home Devices, bottles of wine etc. This year there's no real new cool gadgets on the market so I'm looking for something "hip" and "cool" that will appeal to some folks "nerd" or "designer" or ideally "Design Nerd" side. A lot of browsing at Kikkerland is happening right now but open to other ideas.
I run a "boutique" digital product agency. We work primarily with clients in the media and entertainment space building web sites, mobile apps, voice powered experiences and, our primary niche, smart TV, OTT (roku, apple tv) and Game Console apps). Our clients are the likes of NPR, Comcast, Red Bull Media House, Bravo TV, iHeartRadio and Amazon Music.
In this role we usually have two types of primary points of contact with our clients. The day to day Project/Product managers, designers and engineers that we interact with over the life of a project as well as the Senior Manager (VP or higher) who ultimately decides to pay our bills. We try to get fun, unique gifts for these folks at two different price points. In the past it's been things like Alexas and Google Home Devices, bottles of wine etc. This year there's no real new cool gadgets on the market so I'm looking for something "hip" and "cool" that will appeal to some folks "nerd" or "designer" or ideally "Design Nerd" side. A lot of browsing at Kikkerland is happening right now but open to other ideas.
Best answer: Take a look at canopy.co (not .com). They call themselves "Amazon curated" and select tasteful/beautiful/cool/interesting things available on Amazon. My husband is a total nerd who's into design, and I've browsed that whole side with pleasure.
posted by wryly at 10:59 AM on November 29, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by wryly at 10:59 AM on November 29, 2018 [4 favorites]
Best answer: I'm jonesing for this (look at how the pieces are shaped) and they have other neat things, too.
posted by KleenexMakesaVeryGoodHat at 12:56 PM on November 29, 2018 [5 favorites]
posted by KleenexMakesaVeryGoodHat at 12:56 PM on November 29, 2018 [5 favorites]
This artist is always a go-to for me. Bathsheba Sculpture. Mathematically geeky and yet totally beautiful and impressive.
posted by MountainDaisy at 4:48 PM on November 29, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by MountainDaisy at 4:48 PM on November 29, 2018 [2 favorites]
Best answer: I also run(co-own) a boutique studio but in the post production industry for more fashiony less nerdy type folks and we typically go for the fancy expensive but oh so lovely diptyque candle, the smaller one is $35 and regular size is $65.
Sometimes we do food too (if its a long time client we've made good money from): cookies, cheese/meat/snack plate, fancy snacks. On rare occasion we've sent breakfast but that is a bit out of your budget.
posted by ataco at 6:53 PM on November 29, 2018 [1 favorite]
Sometimes we do food too (if its a long time client we've made good money from): cookies, cheese/meat/snack plate, fancy snacks. On rare occasion we've sent breakfast but that is a bit out of your budget.
posted by ataco at 6:53 PM on November 29, 2018 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Thanks!
So I decided to write up my list of clients and do a bit of personalization so I'm actually hitting a few things from each idea marked "best"
I liked them all however - and happy to hear some more suggestions.
posted by bitdamaged at 9:10 AM on November 30, 2018
So I decided to write up my list of clients and do a bit of personalization so I'm actually hitting a few things from each idea marked "best"
I liked them all however - and happy to hear some more suggestions.
posted by bitdamaged at 9:10 AM on November 30, 2018
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posted by DarlingBri at 10:57 AM on November 29, 2018