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During #SafeToysandGiftsMonth, we remind everyone to choose age-appropriate and well-constructed toys.🎁 Here are a few tips for safer gifting this season!

Finding the perfect holiday gift is a joy! 🎁 As you start your holiday shopping for children and loved ones, remember that safety comes first. Keep these simple tips in mind to make sure your gifts are safe for kids of all ages this season! #safetoysandgiftsmonth #toysafety #holidaygifts #giftsafety

Every parent knows it: there's nothing that captivates your children quite like another kid's toys 🎁 Marktplaats launched its new holiday campaign to inspire parents and grandparents to gift second-hand toys instead of new ones. The campaign shows the irresistible attraction of another child’s toys, capturing the fun of choosing pre-loved gifts. As Marktplaats CMO Valerie Heeremans-Niedersüß says, “With this campaign, we want to show that second-hand toys are therefore a very logical choice for the holidays. This way, we can reduce the environmental impact of the holidays together, without compromising on fun. It's nice to think that what is superfluous for one person can be a fantastic gift for another." Are you giving any second-hand gifts this year? 🧸🎮 #Marktplaats #ToysCampaign #CircularEconomy #PreLoved

🎄 Who's Already Started Their Christmas Shopping? 🎁 Can you believe it’s already December? With the holidays fast approaching, many of us are starting to think about Christmas shopping. Some have already crossed items off their lists, while others may still be in “planning mode.” 👉 So, who’s ahead of the game and has started their Christmas shopping already? Are you one of the early birds who enjoys shopping with plenty of time to spare, or do you thrive on the last-minute rush? Let’s hear from you! What’s your strategy for ticking off your gift list this year? 📦 #ChristmasShopping #HolidaySeason #GiftGiving #FestiveFun #ChristmasReady #HolidayPrep

To all my parent colleagues out there who still may be wondering what's all this about with Circa Systems and Unless Kids. Check out this awesome article on Family Focus Media (Main Line Parent, Philadelphia Family, & Bucks County Parent) about WHY we believe that there is a better way to buy toys and HOW we're making it happen! If you want a better way to buy toys for your kids that reduces clutter and waste while increasing joy this holiday season, check out this article and use the discount code to get started! https://lnkd.in/etQaHgxK

Now is the time to switch your messaging to Gifting & Christmas People bought things for themselves during BFCM Now they'll start looking to buy gifts for their loved ones Take that info into your advantage

First thought that comes to mind: Christmas shopping 😂😂🤦♀️… it’ll look a lot different prep-wise in a month, I know. Whether you have a plethora of recipients to shop for, or just a few, this is a gift-giving tip I’ve followed for many years that saves me a lot of time and $$: 🎅 One thing they want 🎅 One thing they need 🎅 One thing to wear 🎅 One thing to read How do you plan and budget for gift-giving season? #WisdomWednesday #FinancialStrategy #StNickIsOnTheWay #ListCheckinTime

So, its that time of year again and we are being bombarded with the usual christmas ads. To this day, I don't think any of them beat Sainsburys ad about the soldiers playing footie on christmas eve. If you haven't watched it, brace yourself. Its a powerful one! Anyway, as seems to be the usual now on Linkedin - there are a whole bunch of people analysing them for 'wokeness' and either heavily criticising the ideas behind them or supporting them. How about, instead of writing essays about why an ad should or shouldn't be made the way it was, we demand more from these multi million pound businesses? Lets be honest, we all know they spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions on these christmas adverts. It has become a staple of christmas culture in the UK and we all, myself included, watch out for them. How about they use the money for the Narnia like experience in johnlewis or the gingerbread house in Tesco or Mrs Claus kicking ass in Boots UK for something far better than a 2-3 minute ad for a shop everyone is already familiar with. How about they donate that money. I would love to see a Christmas ad from even just one of these multi million pound businesses that simply says - It would have cost £500,000 to make this years Christmas ad but instead, this year we donated those funds to Crisis. £500,000 will allow us to help to get 350 people off the streets. Or maybe one of them could donate that £500,000 to Humanity and Inclusion to help the vital work that they do in 59 countries around the world. Maybe, instead of entertaining a country for a matter of minutes with something that exacerbates an already huge financial crisis and puts people under immense pressure, they could do something that may seem tiny to us but in reality would be lifechanging for people much worse off than the majority of us debating the finer points of a Christmas ad. Just a thought...... https://lnkd.in/edPEFrFw

SHARE THE LOVE THIS FATHERS DAY! Fathers Day is the fourth largest card-sending holiday with over 72 million cards exchanged annually in the Unites States alone with the public expected to splurge big on dad this year if estimates prove true. Often under played at store level, however consumers are projected to spend a record $22.9 billion on Fathers Day this year in America alone, a record according to a National Retail Federation annual survey. 50 percent of all Fathers Day cards are purchased for dads. Nearly 20 percent of Fathers Day cards are purchased for husbands and then for other minor captions such as Grandfathers, Son and other father-like figures. Let us show you how to grow your greeting card sales with our balanced Fathers Day display, mixed with the best selling award-winning branded greeting cards from the UK's biggest publishers supplied on a completely RISK FREE basis with no set up costs or capital outlay. Pre-order your premium or value displays now and grow your incremental sales this Fathers Day. PM for more information or visit our website. Strictly trade only www.cardlandxpress.com

And the results are in.... 🥇The Dads Won. 💷 Sales for the 7 days leading up to Fathers Day: £1,077,875.42 👇 £30k shy of our own forecasts 📈 56% uplift on sales from Fathers Day 2023 😐14% more than sold on Mothers Day 🙌 90% of our best sellers included a Fathers Day promotion. There was some great activity on the Platform, on Fathers Day itself, we generated sales of £187k. A staggering amount of last minute gifting going on. £115m forecast for the year... Are you on usetoggle.com? #Gifting #Hospitality #Marketing