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Q & A: What about an option to add gift cards to our awards program?

We thought about adding these in the past, but we realized that it’s almost impossible to “track” gift cards once they leave our company. If they didn’t arrive, for whatever reason, you (our client) would not be happy. Not only that, if you did receive them and somehow they were “misplaced”, there’s nothing we can do to replace them. You’d have to buy them again. Then you would be aggravated at us. That isn’t the thought of us we want in your mind. Ha!

We recommend you buy a few of them, and keep them “under lock and key” until you’re ready to present them with the monthly winners’ plaques. There are many companies where you can buy them In fact, many of you offer them already in your businesses.

Great Suggestion: Think about doing a “cross-promotion” with your local movie theater to get discounted tickets for your monthly plaque winners. This is something that we have done for our employees for years. We present a pair of movie tickets, each month, when we present our monthly winners’ plaques. The employees love it! Think about what you can do to “barter” with the movie theater to do this yourself!”