Christmas Gifts & Baskets With Local San Jose Products

Written by Shawn on December 1, 2020. Posted in Buzz Blog.

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Counting down the days ’til Christmas and time is going by quickly! Sometimes it can be a challenge to find just the right present for someone. How do you know if the recipient will like it, use it or wear it? How do you know if the recipient celebrates Christmas? Well, we have a few ideas for you. (Pictured basket is called Cozy Holiday. Buy here.)

We do carry a few gift baskets that are specifically designed with Christmas in mind, but we also have other gifts that are considered holiday gifts and can be used for many occasions, including Happy New Year gifts.

And, if you are corporate client and you just cannot give a Christmas gift, because you do not want to risk offending anyone, we have lots of ways to customize a gift for you and make it more of a Thank You gift or a branded gift you give to your employees, without mentioning a holiday at all. For custom or branded gifts, please call me, Shawn, at 408-504-3703. I will be happy to discuss your custom branded corporate gifts!

Locally Sourced Gift Baskets Filled with Items from Local Makers

We just love supporting local indie businesses from all over the Bay Area.

We have baskets with these locally sourced items from San Jose that are pre-made, but we can also make a basket that focuses on the items from our local vendors:

Sonya’s Sweet and Spicy Jalapenos
Local honey from Mike and Niki’s Honey
Relaxation and self-care luxury items from Rue and Rose
We carry lots of delicious snack items like Rice Krispy Treats from Maske Bar, Caramels from XXXX, Charlotte’s Truffles, Black Bow Sweets, R & J Toffee, Goodies from Kindred Cooks and Thatcher’s Popcorn.

Bay Area Themed Gift Baskets Can Include Your Favorite Teams

We are big fans of the Golden State Warriors, the San Jose Sharks, the San Francisco Giants, the San Francisco Forty-Niners and lots of other local teams. We can also make you a custom basket using your favorite team’s goodies and impress your friends.

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Written by Shawn on November 21, 2020. Posted in Buzz Blog.

We created custom thank you gifts for Alcosta Capital Management group for the second holiday season in a row a couple of weeks ago. We love working with Nichole & Erick. They are very organized and get started early each year. Check out our FINAL products (they had two versions) and then below, check out the raw goods and how we set up our assembly lines for our large corporate gifts. (Some buy 20 and then some buy 120. We are here to help you, no matter the size of your purchase.)

Out client is Alcosta Capital and we are so grateful to them for their business and for allowing us to share these pics of the process for creating their special client thank you gifts.

Check out our process of creating an assembly line for our large corporate clients.

Final Product Pic:

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This is how it all starts! First, we gather all of the various parts for our assembly line. (Well, we clean off an area first, if we are being really honest.)

In the case of this client, we had two varieties to create. So, we do have to keep it straight what goes where.

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In this pic, you can see a little sneak peek of our beehive and our inventory we keep on hand.

This is another example of how we set up our assembly lines for our specific clients who have us create corporate thank you gifts for their clients.

Our specialty is corporate gifts, but we also adore customizing gifts for your family, clients, and employees. Reach out if we can help you with your corporate or other giftings. We LOVE shipping LOVE for you. Call me at 408-504-3703 or you can email me at Shawn@AllTheBuzzGifts.com for a quote. Just send me a little about your goal and who your gifts are for, your budget and we can go from there.

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Written by Shawn on November 20, 2020. Posted in Buzz Blog.

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Luxury truffles, tapenades, cheese sticks, cocktail mixer, caramels, and so much more! Working alone in the hive – so no mask. Just me alone working on the weekend. But, we had lots of help yesterday! This is our super busy season and we will probably work every day until Christmas. We just love this season and we love creating gifts for our friends, family, clients, and our corporate clients, too. As you can imagine, since we are in Silicon Valley, we work with a lot of high-tech companies on their client and employee gifts. All of our baskets are made with love in San Jose and we ship all over the U.S.

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Creative Corporate Gifts

Written by Shawn on November 16, 2020. Posted in Buzz Blog.

Creative Corporate Gifts

The cool thing about gift baskets is that because we have so much inventory, we can turn any basket into anything you like. We love making Creative Corporate Gifts for our clients using our Locally Sourced products, like those we use for our Bay Area local clients. You can check out this Bay Area Focused Gift Basket blog article here about some of our San Jose / California based products. Or, we can take pretty much any item we sell (or you provide) and make an extra creative corporate gift for your clients, partners, or your employees.

Employee Appreciation Gifts

You can also check out our Corporate Gratitude Blog and Employee Appreciation Gifts here. We have quite a few corporate clients who have us ship out their employee appreciation gifts. We also ship employee meeting gifts – especially for big corporate Zoom or WebEx calls. They give us their employee’s addresses after we coordinate the actual gift and then we ship them directly to their employees.

Corporate Gifts / Corporate Gifts that Includes Wine or Spirits

Want to provide your clients with a special bottle of wine as a Thank You Gift or want to send your team a special commemorative bottle of wine? We have ways to help you do that, too. We have a close friend in the wine business who has some fabulous wine with special holiday labels or she and her winery can also make you a case of wine with your department or corporate logo on it. Just give us and Betty lots of lead time, please. You can check out Betty’s Wine Musings here with all of her wonderful wine offerings/pairings that work great with our gift baskets, too. Perfect for corporate gifting or for your family holiday gift-giving.

New Hire Gifts

We work with lots of lots of famous Silicon Valley companies and manage their new hire gifts. and, in some cases, the company provides us with the outer boxes with their logo. They almost always supply us with their corporate s.w.a.g. and we often include some of our fun goodies or make coffee mugs/water bottles with your branding for you. We are custom basket experts and we have lots of ways to personalize and customize items for your custom corporate gift baskets. (Mugs, water bottles, thermos, magnets, cutting boards, and other items.)

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Bay Area Theme & Makers Gift Baskets Made Right Here in San Jose

Written by Shawn on October 28, 2020. Posted in Buzz Blog.

Support local businesses with these gift baskets that include sweets and savories from Bay Area makers!

All our gift baskets are filled with the freshest, top-of-the-line ingredients, and we use local products whenever possible. We love going to the food show every year in San Francisco to test and check out the newest products and are always on the lookout for delicious products made right here in the Bay Area or in California.

Locally made and artisanal products curated (and taste-tested) by us for you! We love the taste testing part!

You can send premium gift baskets that are loaded up with premium items that are locally based and created. We have locally sourced products like caramels, dark chocolate almond toffee, chocolate truffles (from near Sacramento), sweet and spicy jalapenos, popcorn, dried fruit, trail & snack mix, honey and even wine (see below).

Need your gift delivered? Learn about our gift basket delivery in San Jose and other Silicon Valley and Bay Area cities.

Some of Our Favorite Bay Area Gift Baskets

Mike & Niki’s Honey

$65
San Jose – Campbell

We love to include local honey like from Mike & Niki’s – their honey products are specifically from San Jose/Campbell area here in the Bay Area. This is one of our Bay Area theme gift baskets that include this local honey from Mike and Niki.

Snack Attack

San Jose Made

Rustic crate is filled with a variety of apples, an apple corer/slicer and the best premium 10.5 oz of sea salt caramel cream sauce you can find! Fun experience gift! Unique & delicious! Local Bay Area & San Jose delivery only.

California Theme Treat Box

This California Treat Box gift box is filled to the brim with all kinds of regional tastes. Including chocolate caramel popcorn, deluxe dried fruit, pistachios, chocolate biscotti, cheese straws, savory snack mix, chocolate dunked cherries, and more.

We’re only showing you 3 Bay Area theme baskets in this post, but there are more in our store. See more Bay Area baskets here!

Or go custom and get just what you want!

We love to make custom gift baskets for our clients, so if you have your own Bay Area-made favorite condiment, baked goods, or whatever that you’d like to add, let’s chat.

We also have friends in “HIGH” places and can work with our local friend, Betty Kaufman, to help you add wine to your gifts. She can personalize your wine bottles and we can personalize your gift basket – and then pair them all together. Here is a blog article with all of Betty’s wine information link.

And, if you ever want to spice up a gift basket, our local friend Sonya Paz makes these sweet and spicy jalapenos and we can always add a jar or two to one of your gifts if you are looking for locally produced products from here in the Bay Area.

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Meet Our New Employee, Jessica.

Written by Shawn on October 28, 2020. Posted in Buzz Blog.

Jessica-all-the-buzz-gifts We are gearing up for our super busy season and we have a fabulous new helper! Her name is Jessica and she is new, but already extremely helpful to have in the beehive with me. As you have read from our other blogs, we are a family-owned and run business – for over 16 years in San Jose.

Here is a blog with my adorable Dad you can check out. And, it turns out that Jessica is my Goddaughter and her Mom (Kim) is one of my best friends.

Jessica is a graduate of Pioneer High School here in San Jose and we “stole” her from her job at Lane Bryant! Sorry, L.B. She is officially a part of our hive here, now!

Jessica is still pretty new, but I can already see how creative she is and what a self-starter she is. She is reliable, always on time, and will be running the show in no time!

Jessica used to also be a cheerleader at Pioneer – but now she is cheering for All The Buzz! Jessica loves crafting, so this makes her a perfect fit for us. Nov. 4th is her birthday and she also loves a Starbucks “no whip, java chip frappucino.” HBD, Jessica. xoxo

So excited to have her on our team to get us through what is typically a very intense season holiday gift basket season, starting with Halloween, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, New Year’s Eve, and then Valentine’s Day! (Plus, we do birthday gift baskets all year long!)

And, we can always help our corporate clients with your client gifts and your employee appreciation gifts. We specialize in custom gift baskets here in San Jose and can ship them all over the U.S. Jessica and I would love to help you with your custom gift basket needs.

Call me at 408-504-3706 or email me at Shawn@AllTheBuzzGifts.com. We are here to help.

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Happy Birthday Jessica

Ways We Can Include Wine or other Spirits with your Gift Basket

Written by Shawn on October 19, 2020. Posted in Buzz Blog.

custom-gifts-san-jose We have some really fun ideas for you about how you can add a bottle of wine or a special bottle of tequila to your gifts for your friends and colleagues. We would love to help you with this kind of custom baskets for your company or for your family.

Our friend Betty Kaufman, the wine lady with Wine Tastings and More and her blog is Betty’s Wine Musings has a variety of options for you.

Betty is local here in the Bay Area. And, she hosts wine tastings and now, virtual wine tastings, plus she sells all kinds of delicious wine. Her winery does all kinds of fun things with a bottle of wine and can potentially include your logo, team mascot, department motto, or anything you can think of.

Here are all the fun ways you can work with Betty and her wine into your corporate or personal gift baskets.

Virtual Wine Tasting: You can package one with a basket and her wine. You can call or text Betty at 650-714-7009 and arrange or get more details.
Buy wine from Betty’s Wine Tastings and More and have her ship it to All The Buzz Gifts to have us wrap it with your gifts. Text or Call: 650-714-7009

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3. Betty’s company also has these cool Specialty wine labels that can be used for a variety of celebrations. They have a “Thank You,” “Congrats,” “Happy Birthday” and others. (Check the graphic below.) Get them ordered and shipped to All The Buzz Gifts on San Felipe Road or drop them off at the beehive.

4. Betty and her winery can also make custom (personalized) wine labels for your company, department, team, or employees. This option has a longer lead time and the earlier you get her your order, the sooner she gets them ordered. You send your artwork, photo or logo to Betty, and then she takes that and makes it into a wine label. (She recommends you order a case to offset the price for the customization.) Then, either you can drop them off at All The Buzz Gifts, they can ship them to our beehive or you can have them shipped to us so we can include in your gifts.

There are other services that can also deliver booze to our hive for us to include with your gifts. These will not be personalized like Betty’s wine, but if you wanted to send a Thank You gift to the people in your department, you could order our Thankful Gift and include a bottle of vodka from Saucye.com or Shipt.com and just have it shipped to us, so we can include it with your basket. Or, you can have the booze shipped directly to recipient and have them match out gift,and your booze gift matched up when they both arrive at the recipient’s office or home.

We LOVE to customize and personalize your gifts. We also love brainstorming and spitballing cool custom gift basket ideas for you. Feel free to email me at Shawn@AllTheBuzzGifts.com or give me a call at 408-504-3703. We can come up with some fun ideas and I can even prepare a quote for you and send it over for your approval.

Our office is in San Jose at 4605 San Felipe Road, SJ, CA 95135. You are also always welcome to come to our workshop (by appointment) to pick up your orders to save on shipping. But, we do ship all over the U.S. We look forward to working with you soon.

We specialize in custom corporate gifts:

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Written by Shawn on September 27, 2020. Posted in Buzz Blog.

Gratitude Gifts for Corporations

We had so much fun creating this Gratitude Gift for our corporate client Annual Reviews in Palo Alto. Like us, they are a Bay Area company and we love working with them! (We have a little insider friend there, too. Thank you, Lu!)

Their company had a virtual Employee Appreciation online, so we shipped these to each of the employees individually. We put in a note into the gift box filled with goodies and asked them not to open it until they could all open them together, virtually. So, when the time came at 10:30 they opened them all together and raised a toast to each other.

We had all kinds of goodies in the gift box, including stemless champagne glasses with their company logo. We added some sparkling apple cider for them to sip and toast with. We also included some yummy tapenade, crackers, Mediterranean dried apricots, chocolate chip cookies, caramels, almonds, and other delicious snacks.

When is the last time you worked for a boss that made sure you know you were appreciated? This seems like a great place to work. Gratitude sure goes a long way towards employee goodwill and great employee morale.

We Can Make Custom Gifts for Your Company or Team

If we can do a custom gift for your team, your department, or your company, please call me at 408-504-3703 or email me at Shawn@AllTheBuzzGifts.com and we can begin brainstorming for the perfect gift for your project.

Be sure to check out the picture of their CEO at the bottom of this article. Isn’t he adorable?

We love making gifts for corporate clients or regular ol’ people! If you work in H.R. or Marketing, feel free to reach out to me for a custom quote for your custom baskets or gifts. We can handle pretty much any occasion and can customize our gifts in hundreds of ways.

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Retirement and New Hire Gifts for our Corporate Client

Written by Shawn on August 31, 2020. Posted in Buzz Blog.

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Retirement Gift Basket

We are proud to partner with @iSolvedHCM in their applicant tracking and onboarding process to grow their team. #WinAsOne

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Aren’t these gorgeous? We do hundreds and hundreds of custom gift baskets each year.

We worked together with our client iSolved and help them create their retirement gifts and their new hire gifts.

You can see the retirement gift basket is actually in a blue tin (their business colors) with their logo on it with our custom vinyl letters. We also use their colors and logo/name on their custom printed ribbon for each basket. (Also filled with lots of other s.w.a.g. and delicious snacks, too.)

But, we do way more new hire gifts for iSolved! Below is an example of one of their gifts they have us put together for them.

New Hire Gift Baskets

In case you are wondering, this is from iSolved’s website:

New-hire-iSolved “Comprehensive, completely scalable HCM software that delivers a better work-life and transforms your company, while managing all your workforce management processes — payroll, HR, time, and benefits.”

In the case of these new hire/onboarding gifts, we collaborated with iSolved’s marketing team to create a very custom branded box.

These boxes have limitless possibilities and we love providing that next-level gift presentation, but I digress.

iSolved provides us with their logo water bottle, lanyard, and journal. We take those items and create an eye-catching package with a personalized card, company colored materials, and an imprinted logo ribbon to wrap it all up.

They let us know when they have a new hire and we put together their gift and ship it off to the lucky new employee!

Get Your Own New Hire Gift Baskets

Learn more about All the Buzz’s New Hire Welcome Gift Baskets here.

We would love to help your company or your family create a custom gift basket. We are in San Jose, but we ship all over the U.S. And, if you are local and need a gift basket in San Jose, you can save on shipping and pick up your order at our workshop on San Felipe Road by appointment. Text or call us at 408-504-3703. You can also email me at Shawn@AllTheBuzzGifts.com so we can brainstorm over email or call me and let’s plan your special basket soon.