I spent abt $25 a client last year for gourmet chocolates and don't think I would do that again, think 4 out of 30 families even told me they received them. Anybody have gifts that were home runs?

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Every year at Thanksgiving I invite clients to come to my office to make a food donation and I give them a pumpkin pie. It's great, because I only give something to people that make the effort to come see me, as well as make a food donation to the food shelter. It is a lot of goodwill, and the best part is I don't give anything to 1/2 of my clients except for a letter telling them I would give them something.

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None. The end of my second or third year in the business, i spend a few hundred bucks on magazine subscriptions for clients. Most of them never even thanked me.So i stopped, except for one client, a big bond buyer, $5MM assets. I sent him a nice basket from Harry and David for a couple of years. But then i realized, (and saw) that i'm just a yield to him, if he found an extra 10 bps at a local bank or credit union, money would flow out as bonds matured.So fuck it. I give them a present every year. My services.

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this is a pretty badass idea. I may use this.

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How do you know how many pies to have prepared? Do they RSVP?I agree with the bolded part. You get some credit even from the ones that don't come."

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Call your clients often and do well for them and gifts are not needed. Maybe donate $50 or $100 in their name to a favorite charity... I always do this in lieu of flowers for a funeral. The families notice.

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