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Gift Basket Business World Newsletter
Your Roadmap to Tips, Resources and Tools That Increase Your Profits
June 6, 2006--Issue 95
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Last week's tip: Take Advantage of the Home-Office Deduction
 This Week's Tip: Keep It Simple Sweetie
Have you noticed how many products and services are promising to make our lives simple?
A few years ago a wonderfully attractive and informative magazine emerged called Real Simple, chock full of household tips, easy living ideas and new uses for old items.
New television shows now dominate programming showing us how to decorate for less, cook simple dishes and find joy in simple things.
All these moves toward the "simple" indicate that a lot of folks have gotten weary of the complex and the complicated and are ready for unencumbered and nonfussy designs. Here are some ideas to make your gift baskets simple, but grand.
1. Put contents in a box with lid and tie off with a bow. There are many types and sizes to convey different themes: a crisp, white box for wedding or baby gifts; a woven box for birthdays; print boxes for celebrations.
2. Put the contents of your gift basket in a practical item that will be used later. For example, for a garden theme place seeds, gardener's lotion, garden glove, garden tools and a gift book in a terra cotta pot. Or for an appreciation gift, place snacks and a mini photo album on a clipboard.
3. Serve up your gift and gourmet items on a silver tray. This sleek design doesn't require any shred.
4. Stack boxed gift and gourmet items, wrap with cellophane or shrinkwrap, then tie off with a bow.
5. Make a brown bag or a cub bag hold your gift and gourmet items.
Simple designs are not only pleasing to the customer, but they require less labor and are more profitable.
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