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Client Gifts for Salons: Give Your Top 20%, Not Everyone

Most salons gift every client the same $8 trinket. Real retention math says to gift your top repeat clients something permanent instead.

Every baby shower gift goes to the nursery. This one goes to her: a laser-engraved tumbler built for a stroller cupholder, made to order in Calgary. See it here.

The CRA de minimis rule ($75 or 10% of the gift, whichever is less) should pick your donor gift. Why one engraved tumbler beats the tote, plaque and gift card.

A registry gift blends in. An engraved tumbler with her name or wedding date doesn't. See the Calgary-made bridal shower gift she'll actually keep.

Buyer Guides · for the bridal party One tumbler per bridesmaid, engraved with her name. Get a quote → By Chen Deng · Founder, LAMOSE · Calgary, Alberta The sash gets worn for one night and thrown out at the...

Ribbons get drawered and towels get lost in the bag. A water bottle engraved with a swimmer's name survives the season — see LAMOSE's swim team pricing.

Plastic bottles degrade slowly (taste, odor, clouding); steel doesn't. The real trade-off, and when plastic is still the right call.

Candles burn out. Tote bags disappear. Here's the client gift spa and salon owners give that customers still use months later — see the tumbler option.

Most vet clinics hand out the same catalogue giveaway. An engraved tumbler with the clinic's name gets used for years instead of discarded in a week.

A client-appreciation gift only works if it survives past the day it's opened. One personalized item beats a five-piece variety box, every time.

Things Engraved closed its Devonshire Mall store in 2020. See where Windsor gets engraving done now, and order an engraved tumbler direct from a Canadian maker.

Things Engraved closed its Kelowna store in 2020. See where Kelowna gets engraving done now, and order an engraved tumbler direct from a Canadian maker.

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