For business owners in Ireland and the UK
The best product is the one they didn't ask for.
Stop guessing what to give
No pitch. Just a chat about your clients.
No pitch. Just a chat about your clients.
You want a product that says something about your business. Not junk with a logo slapped on it. Something your best clients will pick up and use.
Maybe you've seen it before: staff in polo shirts with a ghastly logo, trying to hide from the buyer instead of standing tall in it. Or a drawer full of pens no one ever touched.
And you need it on a real timeline. Not "some day," and not "by Wednesday" either, when the job needs three months.
Get it wrong and the story does not end well. One order went out without checking the design with real people first. The buyers who got it threw it out on the road, in the rain.
That is what happens when a product misses the mark: money spent, brand binned, and the buyer does not forget. That sticks to you, not them.
Miss the timeline instead and you can lose the order for good. A rushed, custom job does not exist. Ask for it by Wednesday and you will hear one word back: no.
10,000 hats a month. Microsoft needed a custom hat designed, made as a sample, and printed inside 24 hours. Daphne got it done: flown in from the UK, picked up at the airport, sent out the same day. Microsoft then ordered 10,000 a month for the next 10 months.
One tape measure, matched right. A client asked for a "premium" (top-quality) gift for her top clients, mostly architects (people who design buildings), always out on site. Daphne found out what they used, day to day. The answer: a solid, tough tape measure with her logo on it. Simple. Used all the time. Kept, not binned.
30+ years, same makers. Every maker Daphne works with follows the SEDEX rules: fair, safe work for the people who make it.
Daphne Wynne has run Wynners in Dun Laoghaire for over 30 years, the longest-standing name of its kind in Ireland.
"Wynners have made three things to help me grow my business: good red pens for my workshops, and two kinds of mugs with my logo on them. I give the mugs to buyers on special days, and use them in my videos."
"I was blown away by her care for detail and her grasp of brand goals. Her ideas on what to give, and how to hand it over for the biggest impact, were a big surprise."
"Daphne is patient, full of drive, and always brings a good mood to her work. She is one you can trust, plain and simple."
Real questions from real business owners on picking the right product for the right client.
Picture your team in gear that all matches: one jacket for winter, one polo for summer, all in your colours, and no one trying to hide from a buyer in it.
Picture your top clients getting something that shows you thought about them, not something made in bulk and gone by lunchtime.
That is the point. Not a one-off order: a brand that shows up the same way at each touchpoint, from the first hello to years after the sale. The kind of thing that keeps a client coming back to buy from you, and only you, for good.
Real work takes real time. A big custom order, made just to your colours, can take about 3 months. A smaller stock order takes about 3 weeks. Daphne tells you the real timeline upfront, so there are no shocks later.
Daphne works to one rule: the same rule the person who tracks your money would use. If a product does not clear that bar, she will not sell it to you.
Daphne has 30+ years of watching products go wrong, so yours does not. Every maker she uses follows the SEDEX rules. If anything ever goes wrong with an order, she swaps it for a new one.
Wynners works out what your top clients use each day, then finds the product that fits, so it gets used, not binned.
Tell Daphne who the product is for, and what you want it to do.
She finds out what they use: at a desk, in a car, or out on site.
She works out timing and budget with you, so there are no shocks later.
She matches the product to your top clients first, the ones who matter most.
You get it made, sent out, and used.
No pitch. Just a chat about your clients.