Now more than ever, we all need a little bit of love – and it most assuredly is as good to give and show as it is to receive.
You can help your wide-ranging clientele be a part of something special this year – Valentine’s Day. It’s for everyone (pets included).
Love encompasses appreciation, a feeling that all businesses can express for their employees, vendors, clients, patients, and customers. Valentine’s Day, in the middle of what is typically the dead of winter, is the most suitable time to get the red out.
Speaking of the depths of winter, it’s no surprise that the color “red” is linked with Valentine’s Day – and National Heart Month. Red is an excitatory color, as viewing it is known to increase blood pressure and raise appetites; it is traditionally associated with feelings of passion, love, and fire, as well as exudes energy and power. Its paler sibling, pink, signifies romance, sweetness, and playfulness.
Sweets for Sweeties
Besides flowers (typically roses) – Valentine’s Day immediately calls forth chocolates and other luxurious, delicious confections. A great way your clients can show some love is through promotional chocolates. Custom Chocolate LLC offers Valentine’s Day Chocolate Coins (#HOL30132), which are custom-molded solid chocolate round “coins” that include smiley face, heart with arrow, cupid, and love bug; all are foil wrapped with imprinted label applied to foil. This is also available in a cello bag tied with ribbon. Foil colors can match your client’s logo: copper, chartreuse, emerald green, navy blue, violet, dark green, brown, dull pink, fuchsia, royal blue, peach, light green, purple, red, white, gold, deep purple, silver, burgundy, pink, light blue, navy, aqua, and black. This is perfect for banks, auto dealers, and other businesses that deal with customer/client walk-ins.
Custom Chocolate also offers its Valentine Kit (#KIT83001), with2.75-oz red, white, and pink Colorific chocolate candy bites (similar to M&Ms®), 1 milk chocolate candy heart wrapped in pink foil, milk chocolate candy lips body part wrapped in red foil, and 1 "Happy Valentine's Day" chocolate candy round coin. Packaged in clear gift box and tied with ribbon.
Chocolate Chocolate’s Happy Valentine's Day Chocolate Bar (#310038) is 100% Belgian milk chocolate bar with the "Happy Valentine's Day" message engraved in the chocolate and repeated on the colorful wrapper. Or choose the Groovy "Happy Valentine's Day" chocolate bar (#310038) with the message engraved in the chocolate and repeated on the colorful wrapper. Both are 2” x 5” and make sweet gifts for employees or for any new customer/patient/client that signs up or purchases on Valentine’s Day.
Another “sweet” gift is healthy, kissable lips. Tekweld, for example, offers its Natural Lip Balm stick (#CB100) in several scrumptious flavors – Acai Berry, Apple, Asian Pear, Blackberry, Blueberry, Citrus, Cotton Candy, Double Mint, Grape, Green Tea, Honey, Hot Chocolate Marshmallow, Mango, Maple Cinnamon, Mixed Berry, Unflavored, Peppermint, Pina Colada, Pink Lemonade, Pomegranate, Strawberry Banana, Sugar Cookie, Tropical Punch and Vanilla. Warning – with so many available flavors, it may be difficult for your client to choose! These make great giveaways for dentists, doctors’ offices, as well as beauty/spa clients. The popular ball balms are also available from Tekweld – (#CB301). Each has a luxurious matte finish for your client’s logo, and the product color matches the lip balm’s scent.
Other Hearty Ideas
Valentine’s Day is also in the middle of National Heart Month. One good way to be cardio-conscious is to exercise – as gyms reopen and spring is around the corner, new or renewing members may receive a promotional Heart Shaped Morph Sac (#489-7035HRT). These promotional tote bags are sturdy and capacious in full form, and can also be compressed and placed inside of the attached small heart-shaped sack, held closed by a drawstring cord. These promotional morph sacs come in black, pink, or red, along with your customer’s choice of a black or white logo design.
Beauty salons, tattoo parlors, nail art salons, spas, makeup artists, and plastic surgery centers can all “love” their clients by giving heart-shaped compact mirrors from 4AllPromos (#384-MI-1847) featuring your client’s logo. It has a hinged opening that spreads to reveal two mirrors and has polyurethane leather exteriors.
Although we are all still social distancing – sometimes things happen at home that needs professional fixing or cleaning. Americanna’s heart-shaped vinyl jar opener (#VL-5HT) has a 3.5” x 3” imprint area and can make a “lovely” promotion for service companies such as appliance repair, plumbing, electric, cable, to leave with the customer as a thank you for their business. Americanna also offers a direct mail service where full-color custom cards can be combined with a jar opener and sent directly to recipients.
For your clients and their customers who love the earth and prioritize eco-conscious living, 4AllPromos’ Heart Recycled Tire Coaster (#154-FT4HT), which is also a promo product sure to get traction for auto repair and tire centers. Each coaster is molded into the shape of a heart and is black with a single-color white logo imprint; upgrades include multiple colors and prints on both sides. These are also highly suitable for more upscale and trendy bars, bistros, and restaurants, especially those that cater to a vegan, earth-friendly, sustainable customer base.
This year, spreading the “love” with a suitable Valentine’s Day (or national heart health awareness month) promotion is an idea that will be widely and warmly embraced.