Creative Ways for Businesses to Use Valentine's Day to Show Appreciation

Valentine's Day is traditionally a day to celebrate the most leading relationships in your life. As a marketer, sales owner or firm owner, who is more leading to your firm than your customers and employees? Businesses both large and small are using Valentine's Day to appreciate and take care of their most leading relationships. Even the smallest gestures can make an impact on your leading firm connections.

Follow these easy tips to show appreciation to those who most sway your bottom line this Valentine's Day.

Customer Appreciation - Your firm is only as strong as the loyalty of your customers. In order to build chronic relationship with your customers, your firm must show that you are willing to go the extra mile to keep your customers happy, as you know they could of course select other firm to do firm with. Show your customers how much you value your relationship with them and attack them with cupid's arrow this February.

• Send a Thank you Mailing - plainly saying thank you can of course go a long way. Send a thank you note with a mail-able promotional item such as a heart-shaped letter opener (thanks for your openness with us), pen (you're the ink to our paper) or flat flashlight (you light up our business) as a straightforward and inexpensive way to show appreciation to your clients.

• Hold a Valentine's Open House - ask your top customers to an open house at your office. Make it as straightforward as a continental breakfast or as fancy as a cocktail party. Give out umbrellas to all in attendance to show them that you have them covered all year long.

• originate a Gift with purchase schedule - Make the whole month of February extra for customers by implementing a gift with purchase program. Give out grocery totes, computer bags, or the hottest technology item for all customers who place an order in the month of February.

Employee Recognition - Employees are the backbone of your business. Straight through their hard work, your prestige is strengthened every day. Improving worker pleasure and morale is an leading factor in every business, and sometimes the little things make a big difference. Show your employees a little love this Valentine's Day.

• Throw a Valentine Lunch - gathering your employees together and taking the time to thank them can of course boost morale. Order lunch in for your team and hand out lunch coolers or trip mugs as an appreciation gift for their hard work.

• dispose a Scavenger Hunt - Give the office a break and hold a scavenger hunt for employees. originate fun clues to find Valentine-related objects in the office. Give the winner a gift card to a local restaurant, and give all who participated in the hunt heart-shaped desk accessories to remember the experience.

• Give out Goodie Bags - If you don't have much time or your firm doesn't allow for a lunch or scavenger hunt, plainly give out Valentine goodie bags with imprinted heart chocolates or inserted into a ceramic mug to employees. Have executives hand them out and contain a hand written thank you note with each.

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