5 Cheap Gift Ideas That Are Ideal For Christmas

The word ‘cheap’ when describing promotional gifts often gives people the impression that the product is low quality. Low quality products are not what this article is about. There are plenty of good quality and popular cheap promotional gifts that can promote your business or build your brand around the Christmas season. Let’s face it, we do not all have huge budgets to spend on marketing. It is nice, however, if not essential that we promote our businesses and organizations and promotional gifts offer an inexpensive means of doing so.
Perhaps it is the word ‘gift’ that scares people. When you give a gift, you want it to either be well thought out or look valuable. For the sake of this article, it may be better to think of ‘promotional gifts,’ as ‘promotional items.’ You see, there are many reasons why you could want to use cheap promotional items in your marketing and you should not be afraid of looking cheap.
Around Christmas, many companies put on parties for their employees or take their key customers out for a meal. Any of the items listed below could be given away at a meeting or used in a party situation to help promote your company and goodwill throughout the holiday season. In fact, they could even be put in the post to your key customers with a well thought out letter more to show that you are thinking about them than to be taken as a ‘gift."
So here are the five most popular cheap promotional Christmas options based on the past ten years of online sales. So popular are they that it is very safe to say that your promotional gift supplier of choice will be able to supply them to you without any problem.
1. Christmas Themed Stress Balls: There are now quite a few Christmas shapes and they do not cost very much. Everyone loves a stress ball. Your printed message and logo will continue to be seen all Christmas season and probably into the New Year. They go down a treat at Christmas parties as well.
2. Christmas Themed Logobugs: A fun and fuzzy gift for pennies! These cheap promotional items can be stuck all over the office. The flag attached to the pom can carry a large logo and details. There are many Christmas characters to choose from.
3. Paper Party Hats: Perhaps these are not the best gift for your customers but everyone will be wearing them at the office party. Then again, if you know your customer is putting together a Christmas party for their own staff you could score a few points by providing the Christmas party hats printed with a discreet logo.
4. Christmas Windmills and Paper Flags: These too are very popular at parties but they could just as easily carry a Merry Christmas message from you and sit perfectly well in your customers desktop pen pot.
5. Small Christmas Tree Chocolate Baubles: Why not, it is Christmas. Present your customers or employees with one of the inexpensive and edible promotional baubles and they are sure to appreciate the gesture.