Does your best friend or family member run their own business? Perhaps you’re an entrepreneur yourself? Budding CEOs treat their business like their own baby and will pour endless time, effort and money into it to support, nurture and grow it. Why not give them a hand with some unusual birthday gift ideas that can help them with their business? Here’s 10 birthday gift ideas for your favourite tycoon-in-the-making!

1. Help them become an expert in their field with PR Scout, a service by Smart-Solutions.com.au. This service maintains extensive relationships with various media, editors and journalists across a broad scope of publications, who seek go-to experts for comment. By signing up with PR Scout, they can become aware of upcoming features and receive event, PR, promotional and media opportunitie via email. PR Scout is a great solution for businesses that cannot afford to hire PR professionals or want to run their own campaigns. Starts from $275 per month.

2.  Are they keen to start their own business? They might get some great ideas from The  Business You Can Start – Spotting The Greatest Opportunities In The Economic Downturn which every single entrepreneur and business owner needs. For just $24.50, you can give them 30 ways to identify business opportunities and take advantage of the current economic downturn, as well as insights on how to develop ideas and dreams into a viable successful business. The book is also available on Amazon, Amazon Kindle (eBook edition) and through major book dealers.

3. Surprise your Queensland-based business owner with personalised licence plates for their car to help them promote their company. Choose from available combinations of 3 letters and 2 numbers or 3 letters and 3 numbers. You can even feature your logo, company name, web address or slogan – almost anything! It’s like having a 24-hour mobile billboard on the front and back of your vehicle. Plus, they’re GST exempt and there’s no ongoing charges.

4. Are they willing to gamble everything for their business? Perhaps they’re just jokers at heart? A novel gift is a deck of personalised playing cards from your own photos, including the front and the back of the deck and the two jokers. Ideal for a business logo on the back of the deck as a promotional give away, as business cards – with images on both sides, or just a gift for people who love playing cards. Costs between $30-$40 per personalised deck of cards.  See Fully Decked Out for more info.

5. Are they wondering if the time is right to launch their new business? Are they unsure whether to hire that new assistant or not? And what about discovering the best time for them to take risks? They can find out all this and more with a personal telephone astrology consultation and can listen to the consultation afterwards on MP3 or CD. Choose from 30-minute sessions starting from just $79.

6.  This unusual idea could thrill those who have restaurants, catering businesses, florists or even kindergartens – anywhere where you generate a lot of rubbish! And if you have a lot of rubbish – why not promote your business on garbage day! Wheelie Designs creates your own Business on a Bin wheelie bin logo sticker for just $34.95 plus $7 postage!

7. Has their business outgrown their kitchen table, dining table, guest bedroom or garage? If it’s time for them to expand, what about giving them a Servcorp Virtual Office at one of the company’s many Australian locations?  Depending on the package, they can have their calls answered by a full-time local receptionist in their company name, have a place to work in-between meetings (no more trying to work in noisy cafes), book boardrooms and meeting rooms online or via an iPhone app, access to PA support as needed, and use the address as their own on their website. Packages start from $100 per month. Monthly contracts, no long term commitments!

8. Promotional products are items that many entrepreneurs can’t afford, but on the other hand, they can’t afford not to have them! Why not chip in with a few friends and give them a gift certificate that lets them choose whether they’ll put their logo on a golf umbrella, an iPhone cover, or a few t-shirts? Promotional Product.com.au has a huge range of items they can use to help publicise their business. Even better, if you’re running kinda late, the gift certificate can be emailed to them directly.

9. If they run a real people-business, such as a real estate agent, interior decorator, tradie or consultant where they’re dealing with the public all day long, make it easier for their customers to remember what they look like with a caricature. These can be used on business cards, on business or personal webpages and as avatars on places like linkedin. See samples at www.caricatureking.com

10. Are they meant to be expanding overseas? What’s coming up in their future? Budding business owners can find out the answers they need from media identity psychic Susan Taylor, as seen on Channels 10, 7, in The Age, Sunday Life, NW, New Idea and MX. She now does SKYPE reads for $100 for 45mins.

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