| Pages in topic: < [1 2] | Poll: Do you send Christmas/New year presents or greetings to your clients? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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I remember sending greetings to one client only.
It's generally hard to keep up with it, because here in Russia Christmas falls on 7th January, so by the time I remember that Christmas is coming, it's already over everywhere else. And it's also a two-week-off (Russia almost stops functioning during the first ten days of January and last two of December), so there is no point in e-mail greetings either.
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I send greetings via email to all my clients and close colleagues. For this, purpose, I always make up my own greeting card with a picture I took myself during the year and a couple of words. Just prepared it this morning
I also send paper cards to my very best clients.
I have not yet send gifts, although I've considered it. I received one, though! Only once. A chocolate box, from an agency. They never repeated... See more I send greetings via email to all my clients and close colleagues. For this, purpose, I always make up my own greeting card with a picture I took myself during the year and a couple of words. Just prepared it this morning
I also send paper cards to my very best clients.
I have not yet send gifts, although I've considered it. I received one, though! Only once. A chocolate box, from an agency. They never repeated. I guess it was a mistake, or they just had too many for their own clients and decided to send the rest over to vendors  ▲ Collapse
| | | | Robert Forstag 
United States
Local time: 23:39
Spanish to English
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| Generally not | Dec 13, 2016 |
I will of course reciprocate any kind of holiday good wishes that I receive around this time of year, but I otherwise don't make a point of including such greetings in my interactions with clients, or of sending out separate "Seasons Greetings" messages. And I do not send cards.
I did make one exception two years ago, when I sent a Christmas card to a PM who, over the course of several months, had really gone out of her way to assign me a series of jobs. Alas, she left the agency sh... See more I will of course reciprocate any kind of holiday good wishes that I receive around this time of year, but I otherwise don't make a point of including such greetings in my interactions with clients, or of sending out separate "Seasons Greetings" messages. And I do not send cards.
I did make one exception two years ago, when I sent a Christmas card to a PM who, over the course of several months, had really gone out of her way to assign me a series of jobs. Alas, she left the agency shortly thereafter.
A couple of times, I even considered sending a gift basket to an office to be shared among PMs I had regularly dealt with. But I ended up not doing so, for one of two reasons: 1.) I did not think that the amount of business involved rose to a level that justified such a gesture; and 2.) along with whatever made me consider such an idea, there was also certain habitual behavior on the part of the potential recipients that I found irritating.
My interactions with the PMs of the large agencies that I typically work for are for the most part "cordial but impersonal." In most instances, I simply do not feel moved to go out of my way to send personal holiday wishes. It feels too phony.... ▲ Collapse
| | | | Yaotl Altan
Mexico
Local time: 21:39
Member (2006)
English to Spanish
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Yes, I sent gifts to 3 colleagues in the Things Translators Never Say, in Facebook.
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I enjoy sending snail mail cards to my clients and they seem to enjoy receiving them!
I generally buy them from a local photographer who captures some nice images of Vermont in the winter.
| | | | | All electronic these days | Dec 13, 2016 |
But I do make the effort, no harm in it: it jogs some clients' memories about me and is a way to let others know that I appreciate them. But I try to make my greetings culturally neutral. Definitely no presents though - I don't see it as part of my culture and wouldn't like to get into that kind of spiral.
As a further note: we have always given our employees [different business] a gift at this time - the "cesta de navidad"/"aguinaldo" [Spanish laws also dictate that at this time of... See more But I do make the effort, no harm in it: it jogs some clients' memories about me and is a way to let others know that I appreciate them. But I try to make my greetings culturally neutral. Definitely no presents though - I don't see it as part of my culture and wouldn't like to get into that kind of spiral.
As a further note: we have always given our employees [different business] a gift at this time - the "cesta de navidad"/"aguinaldo" [Spanish laws also dictate that at this time of year I give them an extra month's pay] but I am seriously thinking about cancelling that tradition of presents in favour of a charity donation... I shall be thinking about it for the next 12 months, since now is not the time to disappoint their expectations. ▲ Collapse
| | | | Mario Freitas
Brazil
Local time: 00:39
Member (2014)
English to Portuguese
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| Yes, if I have the time | Dec 14, 2016 |
I like to send greetings, never gifts. Whenever I have the time to create a nice card, I will send it by e-mail to my clients and friends. Last year I didn't send any. This year, it's been flashing on my screen for over a week now (Outlook agenda), and I still haven't had time. I still intend to send them. Let's see.
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