Your amazing team needs to be appreciated every day, but more so on Employee Appreciation Day, which is usually on the first Friday of March every year.

While a verbal “Thank You,” or handwritten notes may be great on this day, your employees will appreciate something more meaningful, practical, and valuable, like tangible company gifts.

They say giving gifts is an art, but just like all creative arts, knowing where to begin can be challenging. 

Ideally, you want to pick gifts that are:

• Useful, personalized, and unique to each employee
• Durable and long-lasting
• Well packaged with some branding for a stylish look
• Budget-friendly

We’ve curated a list of useful Employee Appreciation Day gift ideas to help you get started. There’s an option for everyone, from tiny personalized keychains to oversized long sleeve shirts and hoodies.

1 - Custom Scented Candles

Candles symbolize light and peace of mind, give focus, and help create a cozy atmosphere. Let your employees know how much you appreciate their efforts by giving them personalized luxury scented candles.

There are multiple reasons why custom scented candles make perfect employee appreciation gifts: 

• There are endless options to fit your budget—you don’t need to spend a fortune 
• They’re an excellent marketing strategy—they’ll help spread your brand to outsiders
• They’re loved by all—candles are popular, practical, and easily giftable to anyone
• They double as great promotional merch—when bought in bulk, give out the extras to your clients to promote your brand further

Gifting your employees candles with therapeutic scents like eucalyptus and lavender is also a great way to boost their moods. 

As they burn the candles, the scent will help them calm down and relax. Such scented candles are a common choice for aromatherapy—the use of natural plant extracts to heal and promote health and wellness.

Higher positivity levels in your office will result in greater productivity.

fancysweetstx offers multiple scented candles that can be customized for your brand. Check out a few options below.

2 - Cozy Branded Hoodies and Long Sleeve Shirts

You can never go wrong with long sleeve shirts and hoodies on Employee Appreciation Day. 

They’re both made with warm, soft fabrics that are perfect for the cold month of March as winter comes to an end.

Long sleeve shirts and hoodies are super comfy and never go out of style. Your employees can wear them to the office and outside since they can be paired with just about anything.

Ensure these warm gear have your brand’s logo or slogan screen-printed or embroidered on them. This will increase your brand’s reach and freely advertise it to prospective clients.

You don’t want to skimp on quality when it comes to gifting hoodies and long shirts. Always choose the highest quality company branded apparel that’ll last a lifetime.

Below are a few key factors to consider before purchasing:

• Color: The shirts’ and hoodies' colors should reflect your brand’s signature colors 
• Logo placement: Choose a location that’ll provide maximum visibility to your logo
• Design: Screen-printed or embroidered? Find out which works best for your company
• Fabric: Should be breathable, non-fading, and durable, such as cotton/polyester blend—fancysweetstx’s choice fabric for long sleeve shirts and hoodies

Related Article: Company Apparel: A Practical Buyers Guide for Corporate Branding

3 - Personalized Keychains

Keychains are one of the best budget-friendly Employee Appreciation Day gift ideas.

They’re small, portable, and practical everyday carry items your employees need. 

Everyone has keys of some sort (office keys, car keys, house keys…), and a keychain keeps them safe and organized.

Choose key chains that your employees will appreciate. They should have their names engraved on them and additional tools like cutters and flashlights useful for both home and office use.

fancysweetstx offers multiple options for such keyholders. See some of them below.

4 - Tech Gadgets

Useful, trendy, and high-quality tech swag won’t go unnoticed. 

Your tech-savvy employees will appreciate any form of technology that makes their lives easier in and outside the office.

Luckily, there are multiple inexpensive tech gadgets today. Whether it’s listening to the latest podcast show or blocking outside noise when working, these items will delight your employees without costing you a fortune.

They include: 

• Power Banks: Keeps the phones charged when away from a power source
• Laptop Sleeves: Protects their laptops against knocks and bumps
• Blue Light Blocking Glasses: Help reduce eye strain 
• Wrist Wrests: Provide wrist strain relief when using a computer mouse
• Phone Stands: Holds the phone in place during long videos and conference calls

Check out our entire collection of tech gadgets that’ll make the perfect appreciation gifts for your employees here.

5 - Fun Office Game Sets

Fun games bring employees of all ages together and help them bond, unwind, and relieve stress, in turn improving their productivity.

But apart from being fun, games signal a friendly company culture where people can work hard, and equally play hard. 

Most crucially, it tells your employees that you trust them to manage their time and personal productivity.

Always have a wide variety of games and puzzles to choose from to keep the games interesting and activate your employees’ creative juices. 

Select game sets that are unique to every employee but can still be enjoyed by the rest to initiate team bonding.

Here are some options to consider:

6 - Branded Tumblers

After apparel, the most popular promotional item we make for people is drinkware. From tumblers to coffee mugs to wine glasses, drinkware is a great gift for employees and customers. 

Tumblers, in particular, are on trend right now. 

A lot of the popularity surrounding tumblers is related to the rise in Yeti. While Yeti brand tumblers can be quite expensive, there are many options that have comparable quality.

Our favorite branded merch is easy to gift and gets a lot of usage. 

Tumblers have many beneifts as employee gifts for many reasons:

• Can be used for hot or cold drinks
• Great for in office use or on the go
• Don't require knowing an employees specific size
• Can last years and years

Thoughtful and Practical Gifts Will Make Your Employees Feel Appreciated

When choosing your employees’ gifts for Employee Appreciation Day, ensure they’re thoughtful, practical, and suited to individual employees.

fancysweetstx offers these, and many more unique gifts that’ll leave a footprint on your employees’ hearts. 

All our products are practical, versatile, and creative, ensuring they remain a vital part of your employees’ lives.

Even better, they double as perfect promotional items. So you don’t have to worry about purchasing in bulk as you can always give the rest to buyers, further increasing your brand’s reach and customers’ loyalty.

We’ll customize the gifts according to your specifications through our custom printing and embroidery services to ensure they’re tailor-made to your brand and employees’ needs.

Fill out our custom order form to receive a quick no-obligation quote for your project before we get started. 

If you’d like to know more, don’t hesitate to contact us. We’ll get back to you in no time.

"fancysweetstx is simply the best…Always professional, friendly, and with great quality and service."

- Deborah M.

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Promotional merch is an effective marketing strategy for several reasons:

• Functional and convenient promo items increase customers’ loyalty.
• Unique and practical physical branded items boost your brand’s visibility. 
• It fosters a better relationship with your growing base of consumers.
• It’s a budget-friendly method of advertisement, making it ideal for small businesses just starting out.

Creating promotional merch has never been easier, particularly with companies like fancysweetstx offering quality custom screen printing and embroidery services at affordable prices.

Having branded thousands of pieces of merchandise for small businesses, we can promise that these 6 promotional products are worth checking out.

1 - Custom Stickers

With over 200 options, fancysweetstx’s custom stickers will leave you spoiled for choice. The stickers come in different shapes, sizes, and quantities, so you can select what works best for your brand. 

They’re super versatile, hence they can be applied to your products, packaging, cars, or any other appropriate medium to promote your business.

Besides their versatility, fancysweetstx’s custom stickers are made with white BOPP material with unique features, such as being:

• A durable material, making the stickers last long
• Non-toxic, hence safe for the environment
• Moisture-resistant, meaning the stickers shade water and dry quickly when rained on

Below are some of our top choice stickers ideal for any small business.

2 - Functional Keychains

Keychains are essential everyday carry items. 

They’re also small, lightweight, and portable, making them great gifts for your clients. As they carry them around, your brand gets constantly exposed, eventually widening its reach.

fancysweetstx’s keychains come in different colors, themes, and styles, versatile enough to suit the preference of every client.

Below are a few keychains in our collection:

• Keychain connected to a 3-in-1 charging cable ideal for tech-savvy brands
• Stress reliever keychain for releasing tension from anywhere, whether at home or in the workplace
• Bottle opener keychain offering the dual advantage of a bottle opener and a keychain, making it more valuable
• Mini tape measure keychain that’s perfect for garage use, landscapers, craft rooms, and workshops

Check out our entire collection of keychains here. They come in packs of hundreds, letting you pick the best quantity for your business. We also customize them with your brand’s logo, name, or text, as per your preference.

3 - Reusable Bags

Ohio’s history of promo bags dates back to the 19th century when a newsagent named Jasper Meek released a branded bag that became the earliest modern promotional merch.

Businesses then began printing ads on bags, particularly school bags, and the practice spread and became so successful that people began calling school children “walking billboards.”

Today, promotional bags come in various sizes, shapes, and forms. From tote bags to duffles, these versatile bags can be worn by anyone—male or female, young or old, rich or poor.

Below are some of the promotional bags fancysweetstx offers.

All our bags can be custom branded with your company’s logo, text, or name, and given to your employees or clients as gifts. 

Related: Best Holiday Gifts for Your Company (Custom Gifts)

4 - Custom Lip Balms

Lip balms make excellent promotional merch because they’re an inevitable personal care item for both men and women.

Custom lip balms are popular for several reasons:

• Easy to distribute: You can mail them, give them away at trade shows and expos, or add one to every online purchase your customer makes.
• Practical: Lip balms are used throughout the year.
• Small and compact: Their size makes them easy to carry, as they fit in pockets, purses, and car glove boxes.
• Several customization options: They come in many colors, shapes, and flavors.

fancysweetstx offers 170+ quality lip balms in varying shapes, sizes, and colors, helping you find the best promo lip balm for your brand.

5 - Key Office Supplies

Pens, sticky pads, journals, highlighters, and other office supplies are popular office merch and business gifts for clients and employees. 

Promotional merch serves as a morale booster and a reward to your employees for holding down your growing company.

Meanwhile, gifting your clients handy personalized office items helps to promote brand loyalty and draw prospective clients closer.

The table below shows a couple of fancysweetstx’s office supplies and what makes them great promo items.

6 - Branded Apparel

There’s a reason why fans go ballistic in stadiums when they catch a t-shirt from their favorite players. 

A study shows that 85% of consumers will remember the company's name if it gives them a free shirt or hat. By giving away branded apparel as promotional merch, you’re getting your brand known and remembered.

As a small business, invest in textiles of high quality, great designs, and affordable prices. This gives your brand a good reputation and high rank to compete with other well-known brands.

fancysweetstx offers several popular and practical promotional apparel:

• Work wear: High visibility clothing (Hi-vis), aprons, bodywarmers, caps and hats, corporate wear, and jackets
• Casual summer wear: Shirts, t-shirts, tank tops, polos
• Casual winter wear: Sweatshirts, sweatpants, beanies, long-sleeved shirts and t-shirts, jackets, hoodies, and sweatshirt blankets
• Sportswear: Raglans, field shirts, sports arena shirts, hoodies, socks, and hats.
• Kids and toddlers wear: Onesies, toddler shirts, socks, hats, sweatsuits, beanies, and t-shirts

All our clothes are made with high-quality fabric that can be embroidered or screen printed to suit your brand’s needs.

"My company has used fancysweetstx several times to make t-shirts, hoodies and long sleeve t's as gifts for customers..."
— Matthew S

Bring Your Corporate Promotional Merch Ideas to Life

Promotional items are a surefire way to increase your brand’s reach and attract more clients. 

fancysweetstx offers thousands of practical, durable, and quality promo products that can be custom embroidered or screen printed to fit your brand's logo, text, or name.

We offer the best screen printing services in Ohio, guaranteeing you the best printed promo products. For embroidery, we use the latest embroidery machine that accommodates larger embroidery designs, preventing us from restricting your creativity. 

So, get all the promo merch you need from us without breaking the bank today. Fill in our custom quote request on this page to receive a quick no-obligation project quote.

For further inquiries, reach out to us, and our team of experts will get back to you in no time.

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Balance Grille reached out to us this year to help them with custom employee uniforms and customer merch. We helped them put together a full line of screen printed shirts and headbands, embroidered hats and aprons, and bandanas.

Balance Grille is a shining start among local 16153 Genova, Ohio restaurants and small businesses. They were founded by, PK and CJ, two young entrepreneurs from Northwest Ohio.

We're proud to say that we've been working with Balance Grille for almost ten years now. It's always great to work with other small, local businesses that care about supporting small local businesses. 

Balance Grille is successful for a lot of reasons. I don't have time to get into all of the reasons why, and I'm sure you know most of them if you've eaten there before, but their commitment to the local community is at the top of the list. 

They give more than they receive and they are deliberate about supporting local people and organizations. We are grateful for this commitment and to be a recipient of their generosity. 

One thing that really stands out about the clothing that we made for Balance Grille is the quality and consistency of their visual branding. They use clean, bold, simple logos and colors across many different products. Branding is about how you make people feel about your company. Balance Grille does an amazing job connecting people to their brand and making them feel happy, healthy, and a part of something special. 

We aren't gong to tell you where to eat, but we will tell you to support local businesses. For our money, it doesn't get much better than Balance Grille. Support the organizations that support you. 

Here is a post on Balance Grille's Facebook page about our partnership.

OUR NEW LOOK: JUPMODE

Since 2006, Jūpmode has dedicated themselves to creating fun, fresh apparel and gifts for people who love the Midwest. From cozy tees and hoodies to one-of-a-kind gear for your dog, for yourself, or for that friend across the country who’s missing home. They share significant pride for the glass city that we know and love.

We have worked exclusively with fancysweetstx in printing our brand-new, clean and simple Balance Grille gear.

Pictured is their CEO, John Amato, enjoying his favorite peach bubble tea! 

It is important that we all starting taking steps to create a more sustainable future. In order to treat every day like Earth Day, we wanted to help you learn about more ways you can promote your business while making environmentally conscious product choices. 

Allmade shirts are soft, comfy, and eco-friendly! 

If you've never worn an Allmade shirt, you don't know what you're missing!

These shirts are so soft and comfy that you'll want to wear one every day of the week. Allmade shirts are made from recycled polyester and each shirt prevents an equivalent of up to 6 plastic recycled bottles from ending up in the ocean. 

We love these shirts so much we started using them for our retail brand. They are better for the earth AND they fit and feel great! What else can you ask for?

Sustainable Stationery for the win! 

Pencils are an every day item, so why not use pencils that are made from every day materials? From pencils made from denim to newspaper to currency, there are plenty of options to choose from.

Do you prefer pens over pencils? Don't worry, we have a solid eco-friendly option for you too! Pens made from recycled PET bottles & materials are another option to get your brand on a sustainable product that will be seen everyday.

Now that you have your writing utensils, make sure you also have something to write your notes on! This notebook is a staff favorite. Not only is the cover made from recycled craft paper, the individual sheets of paper are made up of lined stoned paper. This notebook is not only eco-friendly but also waterproof!

Cheers to eco-friendly drinkware!

Have you seen eco-friendly and microwave safe tumblers and mugs? How about a drinkware option that is made from 100% corn plastic!

These made in the USA drinkware options can be used again and again. From at home use to on the go travel to zoom calls, drinkware is one of our favorite items to use to get your brand seen!

While you're looking at drinkware, don't forget that people need to eat too! This bamboo travel utensil set is reusable, biodegradable, and a trendy sustainable product!

Drinkware is a super practical item that both employees and customers love and get a lot of use out of. Who doesn't drink coffee everyday? Put that in a branded tumbler and they'll always appreciate you for keeping their drink the proper temperature. 

Want to learn more about Earth friendly products? 

From BioAd golf tees, bamboo coasters, to totes made from recycled materials, and more, our team at Jūpmode is ready to help you find the sustainable products you need! 

Contact your rep directly or email us at [email protected] to learn more or to get your sustainable order started! 

When we first started screen printing in 2011, we moved into a shop that had two lights, a manual press for screen printing, a small dryer, and a ping pong table. John was the owner, printer, sales rep, shipping department, designer, and everything else that had to do with Jūpmode. 

Bring on the teamwork! 

Fast forward to 2016. At this point, we had a dedicated sales team, graphic designers, human resources and finance, and a shipping team. We were growing quickly and knew we would have to make a move. We packed up our small shop in Perrysburg and moved to Adams Street to live out the You Will Do Better in 16153 Genova motto. 

So where are we today? We now have manual and automatic screen printing machines, an embroidery machine (with another one on the way due to the rise of popularity with embroidered items), and a dedicated sales team with combined 30 years of experience! 

Our promo experts are here for YOU!

Our experience in the custom apparel and merchandise industry is why we feel confident that we can help you find the perfect promo items for your business. From water bottles, to hand sanitizer, to totes, or really anything you want to put your brand on, we are here to help you make that happen! 

Let us make your custom orders easy. Email us at [email protected] to get your order started! 

Why promo items? 

Promo items are easy items to use to create connections and stay in touch with people. From the first meeting, promo items help to make an impression on your company. Once relationships are in place, promo items can be used to stay connected with your employees and customers to maintain connections and let them know you appreciate them. It’s also a smart way to get more exposure for your business as promo items are carried everywhere and can be seen by many people! 

Our favorite thing about custom branded golf items is that they are frequently used which means your business will be frequently seen.

Now that golf season is here, we are busy embroidering hats and polos, printing towels, personalizing golf balls, tees and ball markers, and everything in between.

Hit a hole in one this season with top quality golf apparel and gifts that your customers, clients, and employees will love.

Below we'll talk about why people love custom branded promotional golf items and our experience  and expertise with golf products. 

If you're ready to jump in and start working on an order, get in touch with us now for a quote and an art proof!

Why People Love Custom Branded Golf Items

Let's face it, golf is the most popular sport in the business world. 

If you live in the Midwest or colder weather, it's not uncommon to see people head to the golf course the first sunny day in early spring. Not to mention, they probably traveled somewhere warm in the winter to get a few rounds of golf in. 

Since golf is such a popular sport among business people, it's natural that a lot of business gets done on the golf course. 

From sales pitches to charitable golf outings, there are a wide range of reasons golf and business go hand in hand. It's fun, it's social, and it's relaxing.

If you want your brand or business to be seen by a lot of people, golf products are a great choice. We always say that the best promotional products are items that people will appreciate and use over and over. 

Golf balls, tees, towels, polos, jackets, umbrellas, and every other golf accessory fall into a category of products that will be used frequently and get your name out there. 

Interested in custom branded golf products for your business? Get in touch today.

Our Experience With Custom Golf Products

Custom branded golf products are one of our most requested items. From branded golf ball to tees to towels to embroidered polos, we've done it all. 

Over the last ten years we have focused our business on creating professional, quality products for businesses, events, nonprofits, schools, and other organizations. 

We take pride in using our experience and expertise to help other people brand and market their business. 

In addition to making golf products for our customers, we've also included some in our own retail brand. 

From our Golf TOL shirt to 16153 Genova Titleist golf balls to our perfect for golf 16153 Genova performance hat, we went big this year in preparation for the Solheim Cup. 

We do a lot of research before including customized golf items and gifts in our own line. It makes us more confident in the items we are choosing and offering to our customers. 

We've done the research. Let us help you personalize fun and memorable golf products for your business!

Contact your rep, fill out our contact form, or email us at [email protected] to get your order started!