Rewarding Your Clients During the Holidays

Written by DannyNoSleeves on November 28, 2007 – 9:45 am comment

Rewarding Your Clients During the Holidays - Do it on a budget. Rewarding Clients
Most freelance designers don’t have the money or the means to send out lavish fruit baskets or crystal paper weights to their clients for the holidays. Not to mention no one really likes that crap anyways. So we are left with one question, how can a freelance designer reward his clients during the holiday season?

It goes without saying that most freelance designers are on a budget. Many, myself included, probably couldn’t even afford to send out cards. Luckily, we as designers always have something offer, our skills. Instead of sending you clients a crappy thank you letter, why not offer them something for free?

I’m not talking about a website redesign or a new branding image, but just something simple and that doesn’t take a lot of time. Here is a list of a few ideas that freelance designers can thank their clients during the holidays without breaking the bank:

Business Card Design – Offer to give their business card a makeover.
Graphic Email Signature – Easy to make and takes no time at all.
Banner – Offer to create a holiday banner for your clients to use on their website or emails.
Meta Tag Optimization – Web designers, offer to optimize or update a clients Meta tags.
Icons – Design a basic icon set and send to all your clients.
Wallpaper – Offer to create a company wallpaper.
Greeting Card – Create a very basic company themed greeting card design.

All of these ideas are something that don’t take long to produce. Don’t spend a lot of time on them, after all they are just gifts. Offer your gift, if they accept, create one quality design and send it off. If they don’t like it, oh well. It’s the thought that counts, right?

About The Author: DannyNoSleeves

a full time blogger and part time designer. He currently writes for TravelGearBlog, CostaRicaLogue, and AdventureLogue. As of March 2008 he will be living in Costa Rica full time.
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5 Responses to “Rewarding Your Clients During the Holidays”

Jan on December 3rd, 2007 2:58 pm

love the strategy
DannyNoSleeves on December 4th, 2007 6:31 pm

Thanks Jan!
Mark Abucayon on December 6th, 2007 12:32 am

Nice post- I like it a lot, this is very useful - Thanks for the post
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Gino - You the Designer on December 11th, 2007 9:48 am

I think the greeting card idea is my favorite. If you can afford to mail a card to your clients thats great, but even an email to your clients saying happy holidays can do the trick!