Need a customer premium? Here's a magazine subscription gift card.

A Premium that can be used with customer loyalty programs is being offered by Merit Magazines, Georgetown, Texas. The gift is a prepaid 12-month magazine subscription gift card. Each issue will be delivered to the recipient's mailbox for a year as a reminder of your bank.

Your customers can select from one of over 40 well known, widely read magazines from a full-color custom-imprinted gift card. Some of the magazine titles include; Better Homes and Garden, Rolling Stone, Reader's Digest, Field & Stream, Parents, and Popular Science. All have a newsstand value of $40 to $100 a year, making a high-perceived gift value at a nominal cost to the bank.

These premiums can also be used as "thank you" gifts, survey rewards or as employee incentives. Merit Magazines is offering a free gift-card sample by telephoning [phone].

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