American International College Gifts

Buy a gift for your graduate from the American International College. Located in the town of Springfield, Massachusetts, the American International College is a small liberal arts college with a beautiful campus, which is depicted in the custom landmark picture shown above. This customized picture can be added along with the recipient's name and graduation year to any of the personalized graduation gifts at Ivy Covered Halls.

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Top 10 Graduation Gift Ideas

A college or high school graduation is a very important event for everyone involved: the graduate and his or her family and friends. How are you going to commemorate the event for your graduate? A graduation gift is just as important as the graduation event itself, because it represents much of how the graduate will remember the day.

A good graduation gift is something that is both practical and relevant to the graduate's future. Pragmatism is key when giving a graduation gift so that it does not eventually disappear into the dark abyss of a basement or closet. Furthermore, choosing something relevant to a career or academics makes the item appropriate as a graduation gift.

Some things that are common graduation gifts are really horrible and should be avoided. Items that fall under the "stay away" category include iPods, cars, gift cards, cellphones, and laptops. I'm sure these flashy and expensive items will delight the recipient for the moment, but they will be quickly discarded and forgotten.

The following is a list of excellent graduation gifts that will remain as memorable objects for a lifetime. Please note that these gifts are not in any particular order.

1. Personalized desk box
   
2. Briefcase
3. Religious or self-help books that improve your well-being
4. Engraved jewelry
5. Furniture
6. Personalized photo frame
7. Leather-bound personal planner
8. Ticket to a vacation or a cruise
9. Web hosting plan pre-paid for a year
10. Personalized paperweight
    

Independence

This being July, I've been thinking a lot about indepedence. Two hundred thirty-one years ago, the colonies said 'Good-Bye' to England. Since then, America has developed a character all its own but our roots are found in our shared culture. We separated but, in a significant way, we remain connected. And, while we celebrate all the traditions of all the ethnicities that make up our country, its nice to recall our beginning.

College graduation is very much the same. We struggle through four years or more to achieve a degree and declare independence. We set out on the journey armed with knowledge, a bit of experience, and a lot of hope. We'll leave campus and friends, but we'll never forget. In fact, at times, we'll find it very satisfying to recall our college years, a welcome respite from career concerns!

This is why Ivy Covered Halls exists: to provide unique, well-crafted, and meaningful gifts for the graduate. All our products feature an artfully rendered, full color portrait of the most important or historic building on campus. We have over 1,700 colleges, universities, medical, dental and law schools in our data base! Choose from mirrors, framed pictures, clocks, desk boxes, photo frames, and paperweights. Your graduate's name and class year can be added to make your gift more personal. Each piece is made to order right here in the USA and delivered to you in about ten business days. We personally guarantee your complete satisfaction. We also guarantee that your special graduate will appreciate and enjoy their personalized graduation gift as they fondly recall their alma mater!

The Top Players in the Personalized College Gift Market

When you search Google for personalized college gifts, currently you'll see these websites in the top 5:

1. Gifts.com
2. PersonalHeadlines.com
3. Bizchair.com
4. IvyCoveredHalls.com
5. Shop.com

Even though Ivy Covered Halls does not rank in the top 3, we are proud to dominate this market because our rivals are immediately eliminated from the competition upon first impression. The staff at Ivy Covered Halls feels smug when thinking about the personality that we have endowed upon our online gift shop.

The name "Ivy Covered Halls" stands for the elegant collegiate atmosphere which we represent. We are different because our items are carefully crafted in the USA with the highest quality materials. Also, upon first glance, our prices may seem on the expensive side to an uninitiated customer, but we are honest with our prices unlike our competitor Bizchair.com, who marks up their items with misleading "original prices" and then supposedly put their items on sale, while our prices are actually lower.

If you need more evidence, perform the search mentioned above for personalized college gifts and look at the results for yourself. Gifts.com has a nice store with a large inventory, yet their personalized gifts are lacking the ornateness of a memorable gift for a graduating soon-to-be professional. Would your grad be able to display a "Rockin' & Loungin' Chairs for Gamers" or a "Your Name on a Real MLB Scoreboard" in his or her posh office? That's the distinction between Ivy Covered Halls and the rest of the college gift market.

As for PersonalHeadlines.com, BizChair.com and Shop.com, their item offering is so wide that they cannot help but be generic. They are as non-exclusive as eBay or Shopping.com and their one-template-fits-all Google ads. On the other hand, our store stands at the peak of a niche market for personalized college gifts for the serious graduates of prestigious colleges.

Now That's a Great Idea!

A few weeks ago, a customer came to our "bricks and mortar" store, Fellin's Jewelers, looking for a really unique and meaningful "thank you" gift. Our customer had a dilemma: he had been "deputized" by the community service organization for which he serves as vice president to select something special for an executive who has everything (of course!) and who had been a very generous contributor and fund raiser. Not only did he have to choose the right thing for the recipient, his choice had to please the entire membership, since the gift represented all of them. Now that's shopping pressure! After some conversation, we determined that the recipient was a Penn State alumnus and an enthusiastic Penn State sports fan. We knew right away that Ivy Covered Halls' series of university themed gifts was the answer. Our customer chose the large Colorprint Desk Box, featuring Penn State University's "Old Main," the most historic building at the main campus in University Park. He wisely decided to personalize the gift with the recipient's name. Well, to make a long story short, it was a great hit! Everyone agreed that it was a fitting tribute to their honored guest and everyone was happy. Happiness ... now that's a great idea!

Personalized Mirrors Are On Fire

Ivy Covered Halls is a relatively new project of ours (Fellin's Jewelers), and we are proud to say that we are ranking extremely well in the search engine results. As of today, for the search term personalized college gifts, we are ranked #1 in MSN and #4 in Google. How did we achieve these numbers? It was through hard work and patience in our search engine marketing campaign and following the basic rules of search engine optimization.

For another update, our most popular item so far this week has been our selection of personalized mirrors. These mirrors vary from 16" to 25" long, and they feature either gold or silver frames with a personalized print of the grad's university at the head of the mirror. Our mirrors are our only items in our inventory that are not considered within the family of personalized desk accessories, but it blends in just as well as they do in setting of the executive office or the college dorm room.

Personalized Graduation Gifts

There really aren't that many online stores that offer personalized graduation gifts. Sure, there are huge brands like Things Remembered that offer personalized gifts, but they do not target the academic market in particular like we do at Ivy Covered Halls. Because we have a very targeted niche for graduation gifts, we are able to specialize and focus all our attention on delivering high quality goods that are custom made by your specifications.

Through our current branding campaigns and other marketing efforts, we plan on establishing Ivy Covered Halls as the most reliable and honestly priced place online to get your personalized graduation gifts.

Did you check out our selection? Our most popular item for high school and college graduations are our beautiful personalized desk boxes. Not only can you customize this item with the graduate's name, school year and school name, but a desk box actually serves a practical purpose. He or she will remember your gift for endless years to come as it sits on his executive desk, holding a collection of personal keepsakes.