The BVAS Connection

I get asked quite often for good ideas for creative or unique closing gifts for their clients.  Here is a collection of ideas and places to get great gifts for you clients’ next closing.

Gifts that keep on giving - 

Why not give the new homeowners a magazine subscription for a topic of interest to your clients. Or set your client up on a membership to receive their favorite sort of items every month. Is your client a wine lover? Enroll them in a “Wine of the Month” club (www.wineofthemonthclub.com). Or try Clubs of America (www.greatclubs.com) to find just the right gift for you lover of flowers, beer, coffee, chocolate, etc.

Unique and Personalized Gifts -

For a personalized touch for your home buyers, give them personalized note-cards with a picture of their new home and address for them to send out to their friends and family to announce their new address. You can contact BVAS to make a custom card, or try here: http://www.julieartworks.com/realtors.html  or here http://www.serendipitydo.com/

Some other personalized ideas:

The Complete Home Journal- A software package that includes features to help you quickly and easily organize home inventory, home improvement project details, home purchase information, “To Do” lists and personal contacts. 

Kim’s Crafts- Hand painted slate signs you can give to your clients to showcase in their homes.

Keepsakes Etc. - Unique throw blankets that can be personalized with the family’s or Realtor’s name.

Roland’s Housewarming Gifts- This place has personalized everything you can think of like address plaques, embroidery, stationery, and mailboxes, wind chimes, glassware, etc.

Gift Baskets - You cannot go wrong with a gift basket full of yummy foods, or things to help your clients move be a smooth one.  Here are a few choice companies to order from.

All About Gifts & Baskets

Novel Gift Baskets

Gifts By Delivery

WineBasket.com 

Gift Cards or Gift Certificates- Giving gift cards or gift certificates is always a great idea and you can us it as a way to stay in front of your clients on a monthly basis. For the first year in their new home, each month send your clients a small gift certificate to your favorite local restaurants, businesses, department store or home improvement store. Doing so will remind them each month how great of a Realtor you are and how you provide top-notch services to all your clients.

GiftCertificates.com - Choose a gift certificate from all sorts of popular business, or let your client choose their own vendors to redeem their certificates.

GiveAnything.com - Let your clients choose from the over 300 stores with your gift certificate.

I’m finding new companies and opportunities all the time and will make future posts as I find them. But here are a variety of places to start looking for great ways to thank your clients for working with you.