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In the realm of corporate wellness, fostering a healthy and balanced lifestyle among employees is paramount. Whether you're organizing a wellness retreat or hosting health events, providing thought...
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Promote health and wellness with branded gifts! National Health Education Week, happening October 19-23, 2020, focuses on increasing awareness on public health issues and health education. Now,...
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A wellness program helps employees become aware of and make choices towards a healthy life and can lead to overall business success. Learn more from Wellness Incentives Plus! Wellness programs ...
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Use fun activities and helpful tools to make health a priority in the office! Health and wellness are important, so they should be a priority in the office. If you are looking to draw in new re...
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Company social sporting events and recreational leagues and tournaments are a great way to get people together and active. It's also a great opportunity to promote your company. Today I'm going to ...
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The dentist and orthodontists appointments are intimidating (for both children and adults) because of all the bright lights, wild tools, and high-pitched. Today I'm going to discuss 5 new and cool ...
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With such busy schedules, juggling work, family, and everything in between, the last thing you want to think about is working out. Even the minuscule 30-minutes of exercise recommended daily seems ...
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Yoga bands, loop bands, resistance bands-- you name it --we have it! All of these exercise bands are such great and easy tools to help aid in stretching, warming up or cooling down, and even for st...
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Tips for a Better Heart Health Fitness Program As you all know the New Year brings those pesky health and fitness goals back from the dead, ready to haunt us all throughout 2018. January seems to...
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Printed Doctor and Nurse Pouch Wipes Alcohol-Free Printed Doctor and Nurse Pouch Wipes Austin, TX: Keep it clean with these antibacterial wipes. Perfect to keep in the kitchen, bathroom, car, and...
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Vacuum Insulated Bottle with Logo Duke Copper Vacuum Insulated Bottle with Logo Austin, TX: Promote your gym or fitness center with these eye-catching insulated bottles. Available in gray, black,...
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Custom Branded Lunch Box Container Insulated Custom Branded Lunch Box Container Austin, TX: These containers make a great incentive or promotional item for wellness programs. By encouraging emplo...
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Printed Bottle Opener Bullware Wall-Mounted Printed Bottle Opener Austin, TX: A perfect addition to your deck or poolside decor, the wall-mounted bottle opener includes a strap to hang or magnet ...
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Copper Vacuum Insulated Bottle with Logo Mega Native Wooden Copper Vacuum Insulated Bottle with Logo Austin, TX: Keeps your drinks hot for 12 hours or cold for 48 hours, whatever your situation c...
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Imprinted Protein Shaker Gino Imprinted Protein Shaker Austin, TX: Shake up your beverage game with the Gino protein shaker. Bottles and shaker ball are made from BPA-free materials. Bottle inclu...
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Custom Branded Light-Up AC Adapter ETL Listed Aglow Custom Branded Light-Up AC Adapter Austin, TX: Never fumble in the dark with your charging cable ever again. The Aglow Light Up AC Adapter has ...
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Printed Aromatherapy Oil Diffuser Electronic Printed Aromatherapy Oil Diffuser Austin, TX: Experience the benefits of essential oils and aromatherapy. Fill the reservoir with water and add a few ...
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Custom Fitness Tote TRENZ Custom Fitness Tote Austin, TX: Look good and feel good when you carry the TRENZ fitness tote. This trendy and functional bag features a zippered, large main compartment...
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Your team will hit the field in style with Custom Branded Athletic Crew Length Socks! Custom Branded Athletic Crew Length Socks will add a splash of color to any athletic uniform. These fully su...
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Give the gift of fitness on the go with the Custom Imprinted Exercise Band. Perfect for working out on the go, the Custom Imprinted Exercise Band is easy to store in a backpack or deskC drawe...
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Creating a culture of wellness in your company is easier than ever with the FitIncluded Reflex Fitness Tracker. It offers HR professionals a unique way to track activity for rewards and incentive...
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Imprinted Pedometers for Holiday Gifts Go a Long Way in Spreading a Healthy Message All Year Long Austin, Texas: When looking for the right Holiday gifts for your employees, think wellness and fit...
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Healthy Eating Campaigns Can Go a Long Way to Behavioral Changes Austin, Texas: Healthy eating campaigns are one of the fastest growing sectors of health and wellness programs. Are you promoting ...
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New Study Shows That Employers Missing Many Opportunities With PPACA Wellness Incentive Austin, Texas: A new study from Virgin Pulse suggests that many employers could be getting significant impro...
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Product Safety & Social Compliance Statement Wellness Incentives Plus is committed to conducting all of our business activities with integrity, social responsibility and in compliance with all ...
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How to Choose the Best Health Fair Promotional Ideas Austin, Texas: I love health fairs … and the opportunity they provide to demonstrate best patcice in wellness, nutrition, smoking cessat...
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Is Your Wellness Program More About the Stick Rather Than the Carrot? You Might be Surprised. Austin, Texas: In a Harvard Business Review study, it was shown that in high-performing teams, manager...
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A Wellness Program is More Than Just Imprinted Pedometers Austin, Texas: So you ordered a case of imprinted pedometers for your wellness program. Now what? I love imprinted pedometers for wellnes...
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Is You Wellness Program Discouraging Your Least Physically Fit Employees? Austin, Texas: One of the problems with most wellness programs is that they seem to reward the same people–month aft...
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Should Your Wellness Program be Called Something Else Instead? Austin, Texas: Wellness Programs are being run by the majority of Fortune 1000 companies and even by a large percentage of smaller or...
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Why Does Your Company Want to Run a Wellness Program? Austin, Texas: I read a recent benchmark study from BSwift, where they listed the reasons why companies choose to run wellness programs. 77% ...
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Easiest Way to Add To Your Workout Schedule Austin, Texas: Not Enough Time in Your Day to Increase Your Workout Time? Well, I have found that the simplest way to improve the amount of time you sp...
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Help Your Employees Discover WHY They Want to Lose Weight or Quit Smoking Austin, Texas: We all want our employees to get healthier–but why should they? To help you save on insurance premiu...
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Are You Willing to Share Best Practices for Your Company's Wellness Program? Austin, Texas: As I have been reading in many industry blogs, there is so much negativity about wellness programs from ...
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How Do You Define “Wellness”? Austin, Texas: There has been much debate on the true definition or meaning of the word “wellness” on LinkedIn and a few other sites I partici...
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Americans Need to Improve the Infrastructure to Increase Daily Bicycling for Typical Transportation Needs Austin, Texas: I just came back from a Scandinavian vacation– and those peopl...
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Ideas to Improve Your Wellness Program Austin, Texas: I read about a wellness program in my home city of Austin, Texas that the CDC had written up a while back, and I think it is well worth readin...
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Too Many Wellness Program Topics Can Harm Your Wellness Program Very Quickly Austin, TX: Is your wellness program themes scatter-shot like a shotgun – -or laser-focused on a wellness topic o...
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Don't Over-Complicate Your Wellness Program Austin, TX: Each day I get calls from wellness progfessionals asking for help on their wellness incentive programs. It usually boils down to the same 8...
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Perception of Food Can be Tricky When Watching Your Calories Austin, TX: I read this intriguing article in Medical Daily online that states that “researchers found no statistically significa...
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Sweatworking: Networking for the Wellness Generation? Austin, Texas: I just read about a new concept in the wellness world: Sweatworking. I love the name and what it is all about–networking...
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Don't Over-think Your Wellness Rewards! Austin, Texas: I get many calls per week asking for ideas to help find the perfect gift or reward for a corporate wellness program. So…what is the p...
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What is Holding Back Your Company's Wellness Program? Austin, Texas: Is your wellness program still stuck in neutral? Is management still delaying implementation of your wellness program for a va...
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How Can Your Employee Wellness Program Help Inspire The Least Healthy Employees? Austin, Texas: Too many wellness programs are not reaching those employees who most need it. Many wellness program...
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Austin, Texas: I get calls each day from companies that have been considering starting or running a wellness program. Many of them have been in the “considering” or “planning&rdq...
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Which Works Better for Wellness-The Carrot or the Stick? Austin, Texas Many companies are now taking the stance of punishing employees with fines for being overweight or for continuing to smoke. ...
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Are You Willing To Change Your Diet After a New Report Proves That a Mediterranean Diet Can Save Your Life? OK..so it comes as no surprise to most of us that a new report proves that a Mediterrane...
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Employer Provided Health Care May Be a Thing of the Past Austin, Texas: A new report from PriceWaterhouseCoopers shows that employers are beginning to seriously reconsider their roles in providing...
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5 Tips for Getting Your Employees Not To Gain Weight During the Holidays Help Your Employees Maintain Their Wellness Goals This Holiday Season Austin, Texas: As the year winds down, now is th...
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Ideas to Prevent the Biggest Wellness Program Mistakes Austin, Texas: If wellness programs are so important for employers to help reduce insurance costs, and so much money is being spent on these ...
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9 Tips to Consider Before Sponsoring a Company Running Race Team Everyone is a winner when you sponsor a company race team for a local 5K or 10K event- WellnessIncentivesPlus.com Austin, Tex...
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Tips for Buying Pedometers for Your Corporate Wellness Program 5 Tips to Help Choose the Right Promotional Pedometer- Courtesy of WellnessIncentivesPlus.com Austin, Texas: When planning a we...
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Don't be Satisfied with Your Present Wellness Program. Keep Adding Health Goals to Your Plan. Austin, Texas: I know many wellness directors are excited that their CEO finally let you implement a w...
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Simplicity is Key to Choosing The Right Wellness Incentive Rewards Austin, TX: When talking with my clients, one of the biggest obstacles I hear is that a wellness reward and incentive program is ...
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What Decisions Are Still Holding You Back From Implementing a Corporate Wellness Program? The NFL has just announced their own wellness program. Isn't it time your organization had one too? ...
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3 Tips to Improve Your Wellness Program Results Austin, TX: As we work with hundreds of organizations on their wellness programs, we feel that employee education and knowledge is still lacking...
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Austin, Texas: A new study published in the June issue of the Journal of Labor Research shows that workers who exercise regularly earn 9% higher pay on average than those who don't. According to t...
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Using a pedometer increases walking by seniors by an average of 50 minutes per week, according to a new study. Austin, Texas: According to a new report, using a pedometer might motivate sedent...
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Austin, Texas: Changing human behavior takes time. Many studies show that it takes 30 days of daily practice to change a behavior, such as exercising, eating rituals, etc. So, how do you expect y...
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Is Cash the Best Motivator for Wellness Incentives? Austin, Texas: There was an interesting article the other day in Human Resource Executive Online about how some employers are moving toward cash...
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Wellness Incentives Plus has just introduced a unique branded wellness gift in conjunction with DownloadIncentives.com, known as Fitness Download Cards. These days, everyone is looking for easy w...
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Austin, Texas. Stress is a part of every day life and everybody deals with stress in their own way. Some exercise. Some eat. Some smoke. Some blow up. Stress can wreak havoc in our lives if it...
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Getting an Unrealistic Sense of the Fitness Goals of Your Employees Austin, Texas: While at a business meeting last week with nearly twenty healthcare professionals, I got an uneasy feeling that...
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Austin, Texas: I was reading a wellness-themed blog the other day and there was a great deal of discussion of the value of incentives in a wellness program. People were discussing whether or not in...
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Austin, Texas: Perhaps the buzzword of 2012 will be employee engagement. Any healthcare program implemented will not be successful until they increase their program participation rate. We have he...
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Too Many Companies Overlook the Importance of Consistent Positive Wellness Reminders Austin, Texas One of the most frequent questions we get is about the frequency of wellness reminders. Basically...
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Austin, Texas: A new Employer Wellness Survey from ShapeUp reveals how quickly employee wellness programs have grown over the past few years. Some of the results are: 1) 91% of employers with m...
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Austin, Texas: We have written extensively on the importance of getting yur CEO or other C-Level executives to buy into your wellness program in order to ensure its success. Now, WELCOA, the Welln...
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Austin, Texas: An recent article in USA Today, entitled More Firms Using Incentives to Prod Employees to Fitness, took a positive look at the success of corporate wellness programs. It cited a sur...
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Austin, Texas: We all know that it is easier to maintain than to lose weight, so now would be the ideal time to motivate your employees to aim for maintenance during the upcoming Holiday season If...
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In the course of my recent blog postings, I have given advice on ideas on starting a corporate wellness program. This article will discuss six ways to take your company's current wellness program t...
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Austin, Texas: Our company has been involved in hundreds of corporate wellness programs over the past decade, and we see the same three mistakes over and over again that can sabotage or ruin any pr...
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Just about any company that wants to create and implement a wellness program will need to justify its expense in the form of return on investment (ROI). As companies continue their belt-tightening,...
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For 2010 Mississippi has claimed the title of fattest state for the fifth consecutive year, while Colorado continues its streak as the leanest. Maine rose the most places in the rankings over last ...
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Many independent studies have shown that a well-run workplace wellness program can have a 6 to 1 return on investment. That ratio was also found to be true in the most recent issue of Harvard Busin...
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A new report, known as America's Health Rankings, shows the health of each of the 50 states. To nobody's surprise, the Top 4 healthiest states in order are the New England states of Vermont, Massa...
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The Wall Street Journal's annual CEO Council meeting concluded recently with the release of specific priorities that both government and business must address to restore global growth and to incr...
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When starting a wellness program, physical goals and achievements are easiest to notice, measure and monitor. However, more and more companies are also focusing on behavior modification and emotio...
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Too many articles focus on implementing a wellness program at major corporations, but very little is written on ideas to help small businesses begin their own wellness program. To help smaller emp...
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After collecting all the data, selecting a committee, setting goals, and choosing which health and wellness activities to implement with your health and wellness program you must be anxious to get ...
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According to a 2008 national survey by Harris Interactive, 91 percent of employers “believed they could reduce their health care costs by influencing employees to adopt healthier lifestyles,&...
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In order to combat the growing problem of rising healthcare costs, companies are starting to implement wellness programs with incentives like cash and prizes to entice employees to more actively pa...
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