Gift Baskets for Administrative Professionals Week
March 25th, 2008 at 04:40am Lorie Obernauer
This year, Administrative Professionals Week will be celebrated April 20th-26th. It is always observed during the last full week in April. According to IAAP, the International Association of Administrative Professionals, “this annual event was originally organized in 1952 as National Secretaries Week. It was established as an effort to recognize secretaries for their contributions in the workplace and to attract people to secretarial/administrative careers”.
In Volume 5, Issue 1 of Rave Reviews Magazine, author Gayle Gallager gives some great advice about how to make the most of this holiday. “You have to please two bosses on this occasion. Your gift recipient is the boss you have to please with your gift. Your customer is the BIG BOSS who must be pleased with the convenience, service and value that you provide.”
With this mind, take the time to investigate what will work best by interviewing both the “bosses”. Talk to some business owners that you know and find out what they would be willing to spend for a gift. Then talk to some administrative professionals and find out what type of gifts they would prefer to receive. By doing some informal research, you can please both “bosses” and make this a profitable holiday for your gift basket business.
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1. Shirley George Frazier | March 25th, 2008 at 8:43 am
This is great advice, Lorie, and perfect timing to jumpstart sales for this occasion.
At the least, sales for Administrative Professionals Week will come from the independent professionals each of us visits for personal and business services: the dentist, doctor, banker, accountant, and attorneys that are in our own Rolodexes and Palms.
Get their orders, and who knows what sales that will lead to in the future?
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