Gift Basket Corporate

Even though our news broadcasting company is small, we still received an invite to the White House for a corporate dinner and meet and greet with the President of the United States. What an honor! We were all so excited to go and wanted to thank the White House staff for extending the invitation before the dinner. We held a meeting to discuss corporate gift ideas and luxury corporate gifts -- after all, we couldn't just send some cheap corporate gifts for clients. We needed something that would "wow" the White House staff and make our broadcasting company memorable for the upcoming dinner.

A thank you card was of course appropriate, but we couldn't send just that. The White House gets so many letters and cards every single day that ours would most certainly get lost in the shuffle. We also couldn't just send one single gift -- there were a lot of White House employees that were affiliated with the event and one gift couldn't be shared between them all. We had to get creative about what we were going to give to make sure it would be well received by everyone. The meeting lasted half the day and we hardly got any real work done at all!

After talking for a long time about different branded corporate gifts and other gift ideas, we finally settled on a gift basket for the corporate White House staff. Now, the only thing we needed to do was choose what type of gift basket we were going to send and what we were going to put in it. We wanted to make sure our gift box stood out from the other corporate gifts that the White House was sure to get before the date of the dinner. What were we going to send?

Being a relatively small broadcasting company, our budget for this gift wasn't exactly high. We pooled together our petty cash and each made a donation, but even after we all contributed, the total amount of money we had available to spend on the gift was a lot lower than what we originally thought it would be. This made it even harder to look at corporate gift ideas for the White House dinner because we needed something affordable that didn't seem cheap.

Once we decided on the gift basket idea, we started looking at luxury corporate gift baskets. These were really nice looking and came with a lot of fancy snacks and candies that would have been perfect. Some of them even had champagne and fresh fruit, which could have been shared by everyone. But after looking at the prices of some of the luxury gift baskets that would work for the number of people planning the event, we weren't sure if we could afford them. We knew the White House deserved the best luxury gift baskets, but almost all the luxury corporate gifting companies with gift boxes or baskets were out of our price range.

One of the most important things about this gift is that it would preface our appearance at the White House dinner and we would be recognizable and connected to the gift we sent. One of our broadcasting team members came up with the idea of corporate gift baskets with a logo, our logo specifically. Then, we could all wear name tags with our logo at the White House dinner, so the chances that the staff would recognize us and remember the corporate gift baskets we sent would be much higher.

We all liked this idea and started looking at personalized corporate gifts for employees and corporate gift baskets for clients to try to find a gift box that would work perfectly. After a lot of thought and deliberation, the team voted on corporate gift baskets for employees that had cookies, popcorn, snacks, candy, and other shareable items so that everyone preparing the White House dinner would know that they're appreciated and would be able to enjoy some of the gift. We found a great corporate gift basket in our price range with just the perfect amount of items, so we ordered it right away.

We ordered the best unique gift baskets we could afford for the White House dinner and waited patiently for them to arrive. The dinner was just a couple of weeks away and time was running out. We realized the White House hadn't received our unique corporate gifts yet and we were almost out of time to have something else shipped instead. Where were our packages? Why hadn't they arrived at the White House yet?

The entire broadcasting team was up in arms about our unique corporate gift baskets possibly getting stolen or lost in the mail. With our limited budget, we didn't have enough money to buy something else! The dinner was just around the corner now and we felt like there really weren't many options left. We might have to go to the dinner without having sent a gift in advance! It wasn't an ideal option but it was looking more and more like the reality. We had ordered unique gift baskets for him and unique gift baskets for her and now no one was going to get any unique gift baskets at all! Our team was super stressed and unsure of what to do next.

With very little time left, we reached out to all of our resources to see what they could do to help us. At this point, we would rather send a simple home office gift basket instead of nothing at all, but we were in quite a tight spot without a lot of leeway or choices available to us. One of our business partners connected us to a gift box website that we hadn't seen yet. This company offered affordable gift baskets for office staff, super fast shipping, and great gift wrapping. We double-checked the shipping time and it looked like if we ordered now, our gift basket for office staff would arrive about a week before the White House dinner. Perfect!

The only thing we needed now was more money. We were still waiting on a refund from the shipping service that lost our first set of unique office gift baskets! The entire broadcasting company was getting anxious and stressed out. We wanted to give the best office gift baskets to the White House before attending such an important dinner, and it seemed like everything was working against us no matter what we did.

Just as we were getting ready to leave what seemed like the twentieth conference our team had had about the best corporate gift baskets to send to the White House, someone had an idea for putting together a fast fundraiser to buy customized corporate gifts in time for the dinner. The timeline would be tight, but their idea was really good! Our broadcasting company could host a combined car wash and bake sale, earning twice the money than if we ran either a bake sale or a car wash.

We contacted our local supermarket to ask if we could host the bake sale in front of their establishment and the car wash on the side parking lot. We told them about our problems getting corporate holiday gifts together to send to the White House and they agreed! Our town was small and having any company be invited to a presidential dinner was a huge accomplishment. It seemed like everyone in town wanted to help our company get the best corporate gifts for employees at the White House before the big dinner, and before we knew it, we had baked up a storm and were ready to go.

Our bake sale and car wash fundraiser was a huge success and we were able to get enough money together to buy more than enough corporate gifts for employees at the White House. After checking the sections for gourmet gift baskets, snack boxes, and gift baskets for employees working from home to make sure we were selecting the best custom gift baskets to send, we decided on sending two gourmet gift baskets with plenty of chips, crackers, popcorn, candy, and cookies for everyone to share.

It turned out that our gourmet gift baskets were a big hit with White House employees, because they recognized us immediately by our logo, just like we thought they would! They remembered we sent custom gift boxes and proceeded to tell us how much they liked the gesture and which snacks and sweets were their favorite. After the dinner and meeting the President, everyone was tired, excited, and hyped up. We breathed a collective sigh of relief that we managed to get the custom gift baskets sent ahead of time, and only we knew how close we really were to not sending anything. But it worked out perfectly in the end!