Gift Ideas » Gift News

£5 Saving on Personalised Champagne

Jim — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:30:59 +0000

Personalised Champagne Gift in 5 Words:

Fizz, Crisp, Birthday, Anniversary, Year

GoneDigging have just reduced the price of their personalised Champagne. Save £5 on a bottle of bubbly…

Personal Drinker

We just love the labels that the design team have created. There’s a good range of traditional and modern styles.

Label Styles include:-

Anniversary
Birthday
Engagement
Father’s Day
Graduation
Leaving Gift
New Baby
Retirement
Thank You
Valentine
Wedding Reception

Personalisation Details

Name
Year
Message

Gift Options

Bottle
Luxury gift box
Case of 6

Have a look at personalised Champagne from GoneDigging

GoneDigging also have a range of engraved Champagne Flutes that you can view here

Jim Says “What a bargain!”

Post from: Not More Socks

£5 Saving on Personalised Champagne

Win a Personalised Football Club Book

Jim — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:12:39 +0000

GoneDigging Competition Launches

GoneDigging, for personalised gifts, has launched their second competition. You can win one of their very popular personalised Football Club History Books, in luxary leather or claim a £50 voucher.

August Competition

The competition is free to enter and this month it’s multiple choice. You’ll find a big clue on the competition page!

Enter here or google ‘GoneDigging Competition’

Terms & Conditions

You have to be over 18 and a UK resident.

A full list of Terms & Conditions is available on the site.

GOOD LUCK!

Post from: Not More Socks

Win a Personalised Football Club Book

Personalised Wine & Spirit Labels

Jim — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:30:20 +0000

Personalised Wine & Spirit Labels in 5 Words:

Name, Age, Date, ‘Sticky’, Party

Do you want to mark a special event with a personal touch? Buy your own drink and customise your own labels…

Personal Drinking

This is one of those simple ideas that will make an event even more special. Just buy your own wine or any other drink, remove the labels and apply your own personalised version.

Label personalisation:-

Name
Age
Occasion
Date

See all the personalised labels at GoneDigging

Design Variety

There are dozens upon dozens of uniquely designed and beautiful labels to choose from and purchase. Amongst my favourites are the ones that make the bottle look like a really posh French Chateau bottled variety.

Labels are available for:-

Jim Says “All the best ideas are simple. Buy their favourite tipple and put their name on it. A fab idea!”

Post from: Not More Socks

Personalised Wine & Spirit Labels

Audio Stories for Kids Gift

Jim — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:30:11 +0000

Audio Gifts in 5 Words:

Read, Story-Teller, Traditional, New

Do you want your child to remember the best things about being a kid? Read and record a story; a gift to treasure.

You the Story Teller

Do you love reading to your child? I do and she loves me doing silly voices and the sound effects. So imagine recording a story you love and making it into a gift that can be treasured for years to come.

Traditional v New

The Three Little Pigs is a classic story and one of the options on magicalstorymachine or you can choose one of the newer stories like ‘Smelly Bill.’ Personally I like a mix and with the reasonable prices it’s worth making multiple recordings for the ultimate personalised gift for your child.

Our top story picks

Mucky Pup
Little Red Riding Hood
Smelly Bill
The Three Little Pigs
Bright Stanley

How to do it

The magicalstorymachine web site gives very neat and easy to understand instructions. You will need a microphone and it works for both PC and mac. You also have plenty of time and the ability to re-record.

Jim Says “I love reading to my daughter and doing all the voices. This is a very well priced gift service that I can see you using again and again for traditional stories and new tales like ‘Smelly Bill.’ Great fun!

Post from: Not More Socks

Audio Stories for Kids Gift

Gifts by Text

Jim — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:00:27 +0000

Text Gifts in 5 Words:

Flowers, Tickets, Gift Cards, Spa

Although not yet available in the UK we think this service will be a hit with those looking for a quick gift send.

Text a Gift

There are a few services operating in the US and in Holland that allow you to choose from a gallery of gift options. Once you select your gift you enter the recipient’s mobile number and a note, fill out the payment information and click on send. The text service then sends a code that can be redeemed at a participating retail or online store.

Instant Gift Hit

What I like about the idea is the immediacy and the surprise. Imagine getting a text from a friend or family member, you open it and you get a code. You go online and choose a gift. How wonderful is that!

Watch out for Giiv.com

Giiv.com is a US only service, at the moment, who has said that they are working on an international scale in the future. We think they are well worth keeping an eye on as we are sure this service will prove a hit in the UK.

Jim Says “It’s a fantastic idea and we look forward to reporting when such a service is available for UK gift-givers.”

Post from: Not More Socks

Gifts by Text

GoneDigging Personalised Gifts Recognition

Yvette — Wed, 05 May 2010 10:19:28 +0000

GoneDigging, for personalised gifts, is always adding new fun gifts and a part of their efforts received some recognition this week when their affiliate programme was shortlisted for the A4U Awards 2010.

What’s Affiliate Marketing?

Put simply it means if you own a web site you can earn money by promoting a brand like GoneDigging. You then link to the site and a code tracks the visitor. If they buy you get a commission. It’s simply and it’s fun.

If you are interested in learning more then vist an affiliate network, they act as middle men between your site and the merchants. Here’s a link to signing up for the GoneDigging programme with an affiliate network called Webgains.

See more here about the GoneDigging affiliate programme on Webgains.

Jim Kinloch, Online Marketing Manager, who runs the affiliate programme on GoneDigging commented:-

“We are delighted that we’ve made the short list. It’s fun working with our affiliates and it really paid off at Christmas. We had sales flooding in. All of our marketing team ended up working in dispatch to meet demand.”

GoneDigging is succeding at becoming a successful and popular online brands by offering new and fun gifts for all the family for every occassion.

Have a look at their homepage for lots of ideas. GoneDigging for personalised gifts is here.

J3Y7VACVSXC4 [Technorati token]

Post from: Not More Socks

GoneDigging Personalised Gifts Recognition

Simply Personalized Launches in the USA

Jim — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:57:55 +0000

Welcome to our American cousins looking for the best in personalised gifts; www.simplypersonalized.com has it all…

Personalized Gifts for the USA Market

We are impressed with the ‘crispness’ of the Simply Personalized design which makes it easy to navigate between the different personalized gift categories like: Fake Newspapers & Magazine Covers, Calendars & Diaries, Sports Gifts, Newspaper Gifts and Unusual Gifts.

Unique Offering

Simply Personalized is another web site created by Signature Gifts to offer unique and unusual personalized gifts; this time specifically for the American market. All the gifts you see on the site are manufactured in house by specialized teams with many years of experience.

Personalized Gift Benefits

Do you like being called by your own name? It’s the most important sound in your life isn’t it? Give a gift with a persons name on it reflects what you think of them and it makes that gift very special.

1st Class Customer Care

Because the Simply Personalized site specialises in gifts that require custom additions they have developed a 1st class customer care team dedicated to supporting a customer’s needs and making things happen in the easiest manner.

Jim Says “We’re expecting Simply Personalized to take a large chunk of the US Market gift sales because it has a unique gift mix beautifully designed by a dedicated in house team of designers.”

Top Ten Personalized Gifts – USA

Post from: Not More Socks

Simply Personalized Launches in the USA

Gift Search – January 2010

Jim — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:48:41 +0000

It’s all change for January and obviously Valentine’s Day terms dominate ‘gift’ searches. This is also the time of year when ‘christening’ gifts and ‘wedding anniversaries’ gifts become more popular.

Birthday Gifts

I expect search terms including the word ‘birthday’ will creep higher up the chart and reach a peak in July along with anniversary gifts and the terms containing ‘christening’ will fade away.

Valentines Gifts for Him

Another obvious search term indicating that women are keener earlier. Why? Well the search term ‘Valentines Gifts for Her’ only just makes it into the top 25 gift search terms at number 24.

Personalized Gifts

Can you Spell? Personalized as in ‘personalized gifts’ again out performs ‘personalised’ with an ‘s’ but it’s not easy to understand why? A quick search to compare the two words under Google UK returns 11.1 million indexed pages for the ‘s’ spelling and only 913,000 pages for the ‘z’ version. Is it simply people can’t spell or don’t care?

Wedding Anniversary Gifts

The search term ‘wedding anniversary gifts by year’ is very specific and very surprising to have so high up in our gift terms. One of our Web sites. www.gonedigging.co.uk has a very neat breakdown of the milestone anniversaries and appropriate gifts. We know from experience that the 1st Anniversary, ‘Paper’ is very popular with visitors enjoying the unique original newspaper gift box. The original newspaper is also a best seller for the 40th anniversary, Ruby.

See a full listing of anniversaries by year, the traditional flower and appropriate gem stone/precious metal. http://www.notmoresocks.com/occasions/wedding-anniversary/anniversary-gifts-by-year/

What we Say “Valentine’s Day searches start earlier than you think and start to peak quite late with people looking for last minute Valentines presents. The anniversary season has started and searches will grow all the way into July.”

Visit here if you are looking for Valentine’s Day Gifts

Visit here if you are looking for Wedding Anniversary Gifts by Year

* Last month

Post from: Not More Socks

Gift Search – January 2010

Personalised MiniMe for Weddings

Jim — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:15:04 +0000

We see all sorts of personalised gifts at NotMoreSocks.com, some fall into the category fun-tacky-notforme but you might like them…

Personalised MiniMe in 4 Words

Sinister, Twee, Slightly Creepy

Gift Choice in Your Hands

We’ll leave you to make up your own mind about these MiniMes that are marketed as ‘cake toppers’ for wedding cakes. We find them, well how can we say…o’ yes we said it all in 5 words.

How MUCH?

Did we mention they retail at $161.45? Why? We don’t know we’re just dedicated to bringing you news of the world of personalised gifts. We see a lot of stuff that intrigues us and we post about it like personalised radio show gifts and personalised jewellery made from your child’s doodles but we were stunned by these…

Ironic Gift Giving

We suppose you could purchase one of these as a ‘gift of irony.’ But we’re not sure. Tell us what you think on our contact form.

Jim Says [STUNNED SILENCE]

Unusual Gift Ideas

Look at unusual gifts

Looking for something personalised for your wedding?

Check out the Wedding Runner

Post from: Not More Socks

Personalised MiniMe for Weddings

Gift Search – December 2009

Jim — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:00:07 +0000

With Christmas terms dominating search in December it is interesting to see how certain terms leap up the index as Christmas approaches.

Can we deduce something we already know from this chart? Men look for gifts rather late in the day; ‘Gifts for Her’ leaps from number 7 to number 2 in the final weeks.