3 Ways Custom Chocolates Make Corporate Gifting Easy.  

Corporate gifting sounds simple enough.

Pick a gift. Put your logo on it. Send it to someone. Simple, right?

…then you start actually planning it.

What gift should we use? What sizes do we need? What style will work best? Which color should we choose? Will anyone actually use it? How many should we order? Where do we send them? Who’s keeping track of all this?

What if they don’t like it?

Suddenly, your company’s “simple” corporate gift has become a project.

Custom chocolates take a lot of that complexity off the table. They’re easy to choose, easy to customize, and easy to manage from beginning to end.

Here are three reasons custom chocolate makes corporate gifting surprisingly simple.

Easy to Choose

Choosing gifts for employees, clients, customers, and business partners isn’t always easy.

Who wants yet another water bottle? Will anyone actually wear that hat? Which style will be most popular? How many of which sizes should we order?

Custom chocolates breeze right past most of those concerns – here’s why:

Broad Appeal Means An Easy Win 

Everyone loves chocolate!

Ok… so not everyone, but just about.

The point is that fine chocolate has something going for it that a lot of traditional corporate gifts don’t: people actually want chocolate.

Most people don’t need another branded item in their office, closet, kitchen, or garage. Chocolate is a small luxury that people can enjoy immediately, and then it’s gone. Only a powerful positive association with your brand remains.

No drawer full of branded junk. No wondering where you’re supposed to keep that company-logo tote bag.

Just the pleasant experience of eating the world’s most delicious chocolate.

Appropriate for Most Business Relations 

Custom chocolates also work across a remarkably broad range of business relationships.

Clients. Employees. Prospects. Partners. Event attendees. Customers. Vendors. Pretty much anyone you might reasonably want to thank, recognize, celebrate, or impress.

Some organizations have strict policies about gifts, of course, and some individual relationships may have specific restrictions. Tastefully modest gifts featuring Belgian chocolate can often fit comfortably within corporate gift-value limits.

We like to think our custom chocolate gifts are a great fit for any business relationship worth getting excited about anyway (but seriously: please don’t use our products to bribe any federal procurement agents).

Great for Almost Any Occasion

Chocolate is also refreshingly versatile.

Holiday gifts? Absolutely.

Employee recognition? Yep.

Client thank-you? Easy.

Conference giveaway? Sure.

New business announcement? Why not?

Celebrating a milestone, welcoming a new client, recognizing a team, or simply saying “thanks”? Chocolate has a pretty broad resume.

Of course, a few very stuffy events and venues do have strict policies prohibiting food or drinks — which doesn’t seem very fun to us — but beyond that, there are so few occasions where gifting someone a delicious Belgian chocolate gift wouldn’t be welcome, we feel like they’re hardly worth mentioning!

No Sizing or Fit Issues to Navigate

Shirts make an easy corporate gift, right?

Wrong.

It can get complicated. Collar or no? What kind of collar?

Then you need sizes.

And preferred styles.

And colors people are actually going to wear or carry.

At a certain point, you’re worrying about whether someone’s going to be offended by receiving a Large.

Don’t even get me started on hats!

Whether you’re giving out enormous 2-pound custom chocolate bars with a hammer for breaking up edible portions or tiny chocolate coins with your brand on them, custom chocolates don’t come with a sizing chart.

That’s one less spreadsheet to build.

Easy to Customize  

This one’s a no-brainer – let our team handle the heavy lifting.

Once you’ve chosen the chocolate, the customization is surprisingly simple. You don’t have to become a chocolate designer for the final product to be amazing — we’ve been perfecting that part for over 35 years.

All you need to do is tell us what you’re trying to accomplish.

Use Your Existing Logo & Branding

Already have a logo, brand guidelines, colors, messaging, or campaign artwork?

Great. Put them to work for you and stop worrying.

Our dedicated team of professional production artists and designers are ready and waiting to take your brand’s assets and get them ready for use in the world’s finest Belgian chocolate — at no additional cost!

Easy Custom Shapes & Designs

You can choose from our existing selection of chocolate bars, shapes, and products, or talk with your account executive about creating something more specific.

Want your logo in chocolate? Easy.

A particular chocolate shape? Let’s talk.

A custom message or design? Absolutely.

The point is that custom corporate gifts don’t have to mean custom work for you. Our team makes it easy on you.

Straightforward Packaging Options

You want a polished gift that feels intentional and looks like it belongs to your brand – you don’t want to become a packaging design specialist, memorize product specifications, and study the chart of packaging styles and sizes.

Just select from our basic or premium packaging options, then rest easy knowing that for over 35 years we’ve ensured that your elegant custom packaging meets your brand’s unique messaging needs.

Different Products for Different Audiences

You don’t necessarily want to give everyone the exact same thing because handing out giant 2-pound chocolate bars at a trade show — while impressive — would be cost prohibitive, while sending a high-value client a small bag of chocolate coins might not effectively convey your deep appreciation for their loyalty.

A premium chocolate gift might be perfect for a major client.

A smaller branded chocolate might be better for a large event.

Employees might enjoy something festive and fun.

A sales team might benefit from something designed to support a prospecting campaign.

You can create different chocolate gifts for different business audiences without having to find a completely different vendor for every situation.

Easy to Manage  

This is where custom chocolate can become especially valuable for the person actually responsible for getting the gifts out the door.

Because eventually, somebody has to manage all of this.

Fortunately for you, that somebody doesn’t have to manage it alone.

One Vendor Handles Design, Development, Production, and Distribution

Instead of coordinating designers, packaging suppliers, manufacturers, fulfillment companies, and shipping providers, you can work with one experienced partner.

Design. Development. Production. Packaging. Fulfillment. Distribution.

One project. One team. One less thing to keep track of.

That’s a pretty good definition of easy.

Dedicated Professional Support from Concept to Fulfillment 

You also don’t have to figure everything out yourself.

Your account executive can help coordinate the process from the initial concept through production and fulfillment, working with our internal teams along the way.

In other words, you get a person to talk to instead of a collection of mysterious email addresses and automated ticket numbers. That’s because we support your journey from end to end.

Always a plus.

Ship Directly to Your Recipients

You can have your gifts shipped to your office for internal distribution.

Or, if you’re sending gifts to clients, employees, customers, or partners in different locations, give us your list and we’ll ship directly to the recipients.

One gift going to one office?

Easy.

Thousands of gifts going to thousands of addresses across North America?

Also doable.

Scalable Bulk Ordering

Corporate gifting often comes down to volume.

Maybe you need a few dozen premium gifts. Maybe you need thousands of branded chocolates for a series of events or branded experiences.

Custom chocolates can scale with your program, including quantity-based pricing breaks for larger orders.

That means you can build your gift around the audience and the budget instead of trying to make one off-the-shelf product work for everyone.

Repeating Programs Become Easier Over Time!

Here’s the best part: once you’ve developed a successful gifting program, doing it again gets easier.

Your branding, design, and messaging are established. Your products are chosen. Your packaging is figured out. Your audience and quantities become easier to anticipate.

The second order doesn’t have to feel like starting from scratch.

That’s really the bigger idea behind custom corporate gifts: the gift should be fun — not another management project.

Custom chocolates give you a broadly appealing gift, plenty of ways to make it your own, and an experienced team to handle the complicated stuff behind the scenes.

So go ahead — let them eat chocolate.

We’ll handle the hard stuff.

Effective Every Time  

With such an easy gift, it might likewise be easy to imagine that a more complicated approach could be more effective. After all, your ultimate objective is to strengthen a business relationship in some way.

For that to happen, your gifts need to make people happy.

Chocolate has an unusually effective combination of sugar + fat + aroma + texture. These properties activate overlapping reward and appetite systems so that it practically guarantees enjoyment. This can trigger dopamine release and activation of the body’s other internal reward systems, which in turn contribute to a conditioned sense of pleasant social connection with the person, place, or thing associated with such a pleasant experience.

In the case of someone eating a custom chocolate with your brand on it (literally putting your brand in their mouth) after removing it from an elegant wrapper also bearing your brand, your brand is the thing most closely associated with the wonderful experience that is eating chocolate.

That’s powerful!

Few other corporate gifts can boast this kind of impact. Gifts of premium alcohol come close, but these are not as widely appropriate or as widely appreciated as fine chocolate, and they aren’t as thoroughly customizable to be associated with your brand.

Want to Find Out More?

If you’re still not sure what kind of custom corporate gifts Totally Chocolate can provide for your company, ask us about your idea!

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