How to Build Real Connections in an Increasingly Distracted World

Discover unique and thoughtful customer appreciation gifts in this comprehensive gift guide for Customer Appreciation Day, Friday May 17th, 2024.

From funky home decor to luxurious everyday items, this list has plenty of trendy gifts that everyone will love.

Last holiday season, our customers sent over 70,000 gifts through Loop & Tie! It's safe to say we know a thing or two about giving great gifts.

When it comes to corporate gifting and swag should you send branded or not branded items? This guide will help you decide.

Check out these unique employee appreciation gifts like a mocha pot, heated neck wrap, packing cubes, and more.

Loop & Tie is proud to partner with many charities to help your recipients gift-it-forward and give back.

This list features a selection of gifts from our favorite women-owned businesses, like home goods, lots of sweet treats, and self care wellness products.

Looking for the perfect gifts for people who work from home? This list features great gifts like a fun french press, window standing desk, seasonal candle subscriptions, and more!

This list of not-your-average corporate thank you gifts includes curated coffee, a detox kit, an Italian olive oil set, and more!

Learn about the benefits of including gifting in your employee wellness program and three gift collections we’ve curated to make it easier for you.

Stop giving the same old gifts to your customers and employees. These unique corporate gift ideas from small businesses are perfect for your one-of-a-kind recipients.

This best-of-the-best list of luxury corporate gifts features a variety of high end options from small businesses, like pizza ovens, handmade bags, headphones, and more!

Make sure you keep these 3 considerations in mind when you’re sending business gifts internationally. This guide also includes all the costs that could come up when you're sending international gifts.

This is the only list of corporate gift ideas you need, featuring tons of great gifts from small businesses, like small-batch coffee, charging stations, and more!

Rethink your holiday gifting strategy to reflect your company’s commitment to sustainability and social responsibility.

At the end of the day, both bonuses and gifts have their place in your employee recognition strategy.

Aligning your corporate gifting with your DEI and CSR goals is a powerful way to show that your company cares about more than just profits—it cares about people and the planet.

As an Executive Assistant, Loop & Tie’s platform can help you streamline your holiday gifts for your team, partners, clients, and customers.

Discover the key strategies HR leaders can implement to boost employee engagement and drive organizational success.

Your company values should permeate every touchpoint in your business. (Yes, that includes your gifting program!)

Read on for our step-by-step guide to launch your budget-friendly employee appreciation gifting program in less than a week.

In this blog post, we will explore why your employee reward program may not be sufficient to motivate your team to perform at their best, and discuss alternative strategies for helping your team access sustainable sources of motivation.

In this blog post, we will explore the importance of fostering a culture of gratitude in the workplace and how it can positively impact employee morale and productivity.

Discover the key elements to consider when designing an impactful employee appreciation program that boosts morale and productivity.

Discover the key metrics and strategies to measure the return on investment of employee appreciation programs in software companies.

Read this blog post for tips and tricks on measuring the ROI of your business gifting program.

Your corporate social responsibility initiatives should be supported by all your business activities. See how gifting makes a sustainable impact when done right.

Read how all teams from HR and relationship managers to marketing and sales can benefit from corporate gifting programs.

We're here to help you simplify the logistical nightmare that is corporate gifting! From budgeting to tracking gifts, these 5 steps will set you up for success.

Read this article for inspo on employee appreciation ideas that are perfect for in-person and remote teams.

Get tips for creating or updating your employee gifting policy.

Follow these 6 best practices to make the greatest impact when sending employee gifts.

This year, commit to these three gifting resolutions to help you celebrate those you work with, be a more responsible consumer, and steward of our planet.

Successfully deliver unique, impactful gifts to customers and clients by following these 5 best practices.

Driving customer acquisition and retention through cultivating customer happiness.

Read this blog to learn how to connect during disruptive times.

Corporate gifting can help build trust with clients.

Learn more about our partnership with Boxed Sourcing and how they help us source and design sustainable swag and promotional products.

Learn more about our partnership with Boox and how they help us achieve our environmental impact and sustainability goals.

As the season of light approaches, we are honored and humbled to partner with an organization bringing light to those without access: Watts of Love.

We have joined Pledge 1%! This partnership helps us drive more impact within our three pillars of sustainability: environmental, economic, & social impact.

Learn more about our partnership with Dollar Donation Club and how they help us achieve our environmental and social impact goals.

Read about Loop & Tie’s partnership 10 Million Women, an organization focused on driving change and equity for women worldwide.

Read this letter from Loop & Tie's CEO & Founder, which defines the idea of Invitational Commerce as a way to steward a more sustainable economic system.

Our team members share how they’ve connected with our company’s core values, keeping them engaged and motivated.

Read this blog to get to know Molly McGowan, Loop & Tie’s Senior Manager of Buying and Merchandising.

Read this blog to get to know Steph Owen, one of Loop & Tie’s Product Managers.

Meet Julian Payne, Loop & Tie’s Fulfillment Implementation Specialist, Will Ferrel and John C. Reilly super fan, and resident foodie.

Gift Templates are designed streamline your recurring gift experiences to help you create a seamless and impactful gift experience - with only a few clicks.

Discover the exciting features of our newly redesigned Loop & Tie platform! Explore a more intuitive interface, advanced search options, enhanced bulk gifting, and robust analytics to elevate your gifting experience.

To help reduce your carbon footprint & make a positive impact on our planet, here is a guide for how to recycle the packaging from your Loop & Tie gift.

As we continue to look for ways to help connect small businesses with corporate gifting budgets, we’re excited to introduce branded gift collections.

Learn about Teams, a new feature to Loop & Tie’s gifting platform that was released on July 5, 2022.

In this episode of The Connected Brand, MK and Beth Dunn, Head of Content at Practice Better, discuss the importance of constraints in creativity and how marketers can use the assets they already have to create innovative and impactful campaigns. They also explore the connection between improv and marketing, highlighting the importance of collaboration and accepting what is given and reinforcing this mindset within a marketing team.

Host MK Getler chats with PR pro Gina Rau of 6sense in a wide-ranging conversation touching on a number of topics including personal stories, plant care, the definition of PR, career journeys, storytelling, brand building, and the role of PR in maintaining brand reputation. The conversation provides insights into the evolving landscape of PR and the need for tools to measure PR impact.

Host, MK Getler, and Brendan Hufford, founder of Growth Sprints, explore the concept of brand and the mindset shifts needed to harness its power. They discuss the importance of building trust and creating a sense of camaraderie with customers. They also touch on the challenges of channel strategy and the need to break away from checkbox marketing.

In this episode, MK talks with Lee Lee Ennis, Director of HR at Visual Concepts, about prioritizing employees to create a connected brand. Lee Lee emphasizes the value of human connection and the human experience in the workplace, and shares her perspective on the role of HR in an employee's life cycle and the need for business leaders to care about their employees.

In this episode, host MK Getler and Melissa Rosenthal discuss the importance of brand in the consumer space and the role it plays in building a successful company. Melissa shares her journey from working at BuzzFeed to becoming a CMO and Brand Builder, and highlights the need for alignment between personal values and the company's mission. Rosenthal draws inspiration from her travels to Japan, where she learned the value of respect, community, and silence.

Ready to learn a new word and a new way of thinking? The authors of Superabound join host MK Getler on this episode of The Connected Brand. Expect loads of inspiration from this one.

Listen in on this episode of Connected Brand as Pete Volocil shares his insights on how brands can create magical experiences by focusing on the details and the human connections that matter most.

From embracing vulnerability and authenticity to finding the emotional heartstrings that connect people to your brand, this episode of Connected Brand featuring Erin Levzow will certainly inspire your imagination.

Uncover the process of how the best brands, personal or otherwise, are always communicating those core pillars through every piece of content they create. in this episode of The Connected Brand.

What’s it take to forge long-lasting connections with your audience? Well, you’ve got to put them first. Mark Kilens and Nick Bennett of TACK join this episode of Connected Brand to show you how.

Christina Garnett, eMBA joins host MK Getler in our inaugural episode of Connected Brand with one question on their minds: How can brands create meaningful moments that make people feel seen, heard and part of something bigger than themselves?

Each episode of Connected Brand will pivot on a single thesis: authentic human connection plays a huge role in fostering sustainable growth and success for every single brand today. 

Tune into the Pathmonk Presents podcast interview with our CMO MK Getler-Porizkova on the importance of curating a community around your brand values.