Looking for a crowd pleasing gift?

Taraci Motivation has found that one of the most frequently purchased incentive categories for them is bar-ware.  Wine Accessories, Shakers, Glassware, Cocktail Sets and even Beer Accessories are the most frequently purchased home products out of our extensive online catalogs.  Here are two recommendations for your corporate gifting this season.

For The Wine Lover

EuroCave, maker of the world’s finest wine cellar, now brings you the pinnacle of wine preservation! Chills and preserves opened wine up to 10 days! Just place an uncorked bottle inside, close the door, slide EuroCave’s patented vacuum cylinder over the bottle neck, and set the desired temperature. No stoppers, pumps, or gases required.

EuroCave’s SoWine is a great gift for the wine aficionado and the couple who likes the occasional glass with dinner alike.

For Those Who Prefer Beer:

You can enjoy high quality craft brewed beers at home for just pennies per serving with The Beer Machine – voted best in class by beer experts around the world. Enjoy the highest quality in a wide variety of full flavored naturally brewed beers that are the freshest possible made in your personal mini micro brewery with Beer Mixes professionally prepared and ready to brew.

No matter what kind of gifts you might be looking for this season, Taraci Motivation has a solution for you.  For more information, please email: David@Taraci.com or call: 212-243-7733

The sophistication of black, the sparkle of crystal and a design that is timeless… Perfect!

Swarovski Crystal is popular the world over and with their breath-taking designs, it’s easy to see why.  Swarovski represents one of the many fabulous brands that can be made available in any of Taraci Motivation’s incentive catalogs.  With watches, bar-ware, jewelry, decor and other accessories, Swarovski gifts can be found for many different clients, costs and programs.

With designs like these, you can be sure that your incentive gift will be cherished, remembered and admired.

To learn about adding Swarovski or any of our excellent brands to your incentive catalog, email: David@Taraci.com or call: 212-243-7733

Tired of blending into a sea of black rolling carry-ons?  Johnston and Murphy has unveiled a new collection that might be for you.

The Mallory Collection of luggage gives your suitcases, laptops, and other bags a unique classy flair without loud and obnoxious colors.  With a sleak and subtle print and some well placed red highlights, your luggage will be as memorable and sophisticated as you.

The Mallory Collection boasts 4 pieces:

• Expandable Road Agent – Full Size Suitcase
• Road Agent – Carry-On Suitcase
• Carry-On Tote – Large Shoulder Tote
• Laptop Tote – Laptop Tote

To get more hip and stylish items into your company’s incentive selection, email Taraci Motivation or call 212-243-7733.

Learn How to:

Motivate Employees and Customers and Increase Sales and Profits

Taraci Motivation is offering to schedule a free webinar with you or your team to demonstrate its incomparable online Incentive Platform, MotivationMgr™.   In less than 30 minutes you’ll learn the basics of running every type of Incentive Program: Wellness, Sales Incentive, Length of Service, Loyalty, Safety, even Multi-Lingual Global Programs.  See how our capabilities can solve your incentive challenges including:

• MotivationMgr™ Multi-Lingual Online Platform
• The Taraci Collection Master Catalog
• Types of Programs, both Point Based & Tiered
• Significant Cost Savings
• How Incentive Systems Work
• Complete Reporting Functions
• And More…

Contact: David@Taraci.com or call 212-243-7733 to learn more and schedule your FREE webinar, today!

Why Should I Run A Recognition Program?

A Good Question…

Can I Afford Not To?

A Better One.

Motivated Employees =  Productivity = More Profit

Motivated Employees:

• 16% More Profitable
• 18% More Productive
• 37% Lower Absenteeism
• 12% Better Customer Service
• 60% More Focused
• 31-51% Less Likely To Leave Their Company

The numbers make it very clear that motivating your employees can greatly improve your bottom line.  How a company motivates their employees varies, but numerous studies within the HR community have shown that among the most effective methods to engage and motivate your employees are recognition and incentive programs.

For more information about improving your company’s bottom line contact Taraci Motivation or call 212-243-7733

Numbers reference various Gallop Polls and HR initiatives.  For a full list of statistics, visit the IMA at www.incentivemarketing.org

Taraci Motivation has been in the incentive industry for 28 years and was a founding member of the Global Incentive Council of the IMA.  As a company that has always had a number of multinational clients,  we have spearheaded the drive to develop international partners who would make the execution of a truly universal solution a reality.  Shipping charges, duty and customs problems made global programs not just difficult, but almost impossible to run in a centralized, uniform way.

More often than not, multinationals ran different programs in different countries and regions,  resulting in the loss of control over strategic goals and the propagation of different reward systems with uneven and often inequitable award platforms. Language barriers and currency issues only exacerbated the problem.

After years of trial and error, Taraci Motivation can now draw from a vast network of partners across the globe and execute a global program in  Europe, The Pacific Rim, South Africa, Canada, Mexico, South America and of course, the U.S.   In addition, our MotivationMgr™ platform can create online catalogs in multiple languages.  If necessary, we can even provide multi-lingual customer support.

On top of this, we’ve developed catalog technology that allows online catalogs to be published in multiple languages and through our partners we can even provide multi-lingual customer support.

Contact Taraci Motivation to schedule a 15 minute webinar, email or call: 888-485-8583

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How does your system work?

A: We have setup a global network of partners in Europe, The Pacific Rim, the Middle East, South America, Mexico, and North America, so we can provide our clients a truly universal solution.  There is a great cost savings in our program; since we are shipping in country and in-region you are saving shipping charges, taxes and duties.

Q: Who is Taraci Motivation?

A: We are an incentive Marketing company in business for Twenty-eight years.  We are a founding member of the Global Incentive Council of the Incentive Marketing Association and ran the first online incentive program in the U.S. in1995 for Merrill Lynch.

Q: How do you deal with the different currencies?

A: Everything is billed in U.S. Dollars.

Q: Do you ship the same awards given in the U.S. internationally?

A: On occasion.  Usually, we build the domestic catalog first and then build a culturally and functionally appropriate catalog overseas.  If necessary, the process could be reversed.

Q: How long does it take to start a program?

A: You can be up and running in two weeks from the time the budget is set & program design is approved.

Sony’s Party-Shot™ Personal Photographer allows you to enjoy hosting without worrying over who’s documenting your hit event.  The soiree friendly docking station works in conjunction with several of Sony’s cyber shot cameras and allows you to circulate without taking time to pause and snap some memories.

• Snaps pictures at an event – automatically
• Intelligently pans and tilts to follow subjects and take photos
• Automatically detects faces and adjusts the composition of pictures
• Automatically captures a smile with Smile Shutter™ technology

It has never been this easy to take such natural, candid pictures.  It has never been this easy and hands free to document your events.  Before filling your social calendar, this is a must have item.

Sony Cybershot DSC-TX7

The top of the line partner for your Party-Shot™ Personal Photographer is Sony’s DSC-TX7.  This pocket-sized point and click camera features a robust 10.2 Megapixel threshold with an “Exmor R” CMOS sensor.  What this means to the less tech savvy user is that your pictures will have outstanding resolution and the camera is built to capture images even in low-light settings.

The camera features a 4x Optical zoom and a 3.5” touch screen so don’t think for an instant you are sacrificing anything to get a “party camera.”  With buzz-word features like: iSweep Panorama, 1080p HD Video, Anti Motion Blur and Fast capture, even if you weren’t using it for parties this camera has all the bells and whistles you’ve come to expect in modern digital cameras.

To learn more about adding the latest SONY camera innovations to your incentive offering contact Taraci Motivation or call 212-243-7733

Is your workplace as safe as you’d like it to be?  Are you losing momentum in your factory because of accidents?  Are employees missing time because they are not wearing the proper type of protective equipment?  The solution is not always an easy thing to find.  Most psychologists adhere to the theory of positive re-enforcement as a means of changing behavior.  By creating and communicating new safety initiatives and rewarding the workforce for accomplishing their goals,  you will find that the rate of accidental incidents will start to decline, usually quite dramatically.

Here are five examples of commonly run programs:

• Accident Prevention Program (APP)
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Safety Awareness Program (SAP)
• Safety Education Awards (SEA)
• Employee Attendance Initiative (EAI)

These programs are designed to get maximum efficiency out of your employees and your workplace.  Not only do they improve efficiency, Safety Programs are proven to improve the loyalty and overall attitude of your workers.

For more information about implementing your own Safety Program, contact Taraci Motivation or call 212-243-7733

Keeping the Customer Satisfied

Developing Effective Loyalty programs

Few marketers would argue against the advantage of having satisfied, loyal customers or that it’s much cheaper to keep an existing customer compared to selling a new one.   Empirical evidence suggests that success in retaining customers often boils down to doing the basics right.

In addition, some businesses have characteristics better suited than other businesses for loyalty/frequency marketing programs, according to Jill Griffin, author of Customer Loyalty: How to Earn It, How to Keep It. Her book includes the following questions to help determine whether a frequency marketing program makes sense for your company:

• Does your product or service have a frequent and regular repeat purchase cycle?
• Do your customers perceive little differentiation between your product or service and your competitors’? If so, then a frequency marketing program may help.
• Will your customers perceive the rewards as valuable?
• Will you communicate with these customers on an ongoing basis in order to build a long-term relationship?
• Can you afford the program?
• Do you have a comprehensive relationship-building strategy and a means to measure it?

Taraci Motivation can help you navigate the tricky minefield of Customer Loyalty Programs.  To learn more email us, or call 212-243-7733.

Rafael Nadal might earn his money with his left hand, but he certainly wears it on his right.  Rafael Nadal made as many fashionistas take notice of his play as sports fans when he stepped out on the court sporting a $525,000 time piece.

The watch in question (see above) is Richard Mille’s RB 027 Tourbillon, but if half a million dollars is a little too rich for your award budget here are some sporty watches that Taraci Motivation suggests might have a similar appeal to your employees.

Tag Heuer’s Professional Golf Watch

It has been specially designed to meet golfers’ special requirements. Its high-tech materials and carefully studied ergonomic design means that the TAG Heuer professional golf watch will never bother a golfer during the swing.

Though the Tag Golf doesn’t have the same Skeleton Face and modern robotic look, but the watch does boast its own high-profile spokes person.  At approximately $1500 retail the watch is slightly friendlier for the bank.

Even at less than 1% of the price, A Tag watch is an expensive gift.  Even without the high budget, Taraci Motivation says that you can still give your employees the sporty style they crave.

Seiko offers their “Sportura” collection and with this Chronograph you can see that under $1000 dollars retail, high-class design is not left out.  This watch retails around $750 and fits very nicely into most incentive programs and meeting gift budgets.

If you’re looking for some of the latest sporty fashion to reward your employees, contact Taraci Motivation or call 212-243-7733.