Summer Fun Corporate Outings Activities and Products

Are you planning your company's summer outing? Looking for activities? This activity is a hit among employees and management alike - great for teambuilding skills.

Divide your participants into four groups with an equal number of people in each group. Each group is identified by color coded tee shirts. For instance, Group A has lime green tees, Group B has royal blue tees, etc. Furnish each group with a CD of a famous song, a CD player, and a theme - such as teamwork, customer service or something focused on your business. Each group gets together for 30 minutes and has to come up with new words for the song. Each group then gets to perform the song for the other groups. The group with the most applause wins. You'll need an additional copy of the CD without the words or a karaoke copy and can use battery operated microphones or a karaoke machine. The winning team each gets a prize. It will be a huge hit!! It is one of the funniest corporate activities I've ever experienced or witnessed.

Speaking of prizes, some great products with your company logo include: insulated picnic backpacks, MP3 players, digital photo albums, imprinted beach towels or spa gift sets.

Money Saving Tips

Planning ahead is the key to saving money with your promotions. Many of our suppliers, give us price incentives, especially for seasonal items like calendars or holiday gifts, for ordering early. And ordering early doesn't mean you have to take delivery right away. Because the holiday season is the busiest time of year, our suppliers for holiday cards and calendars are giving the deepest discounts if you order by May 31st. If you order during the month of June, you'll still get a discount but maybe not as much as if you had ordered during May - and so forth and so on - usually through August and sometimes September. Another of our suppliers - who supplies us with our gift towers, will give us discounts through the first of November. Most of the time, you can specify your delivery date far into the future. These are great programs, and if your budget for promotions and branding throughout the year is substantial, this could mean sizeable savings for your company. If you wait until the last minute, you're usually charged with rush charges from the factory and rush shipping charges. Wouldn't you rather spend that money on adding an additional promotion or keeping it in your pocket?