Budget-Friendly Tips for Ordering Finance Awards

May 6, 2025 by David Parry

Settling on an appropriate budget for commemorating a financial transaction isn't always so straightforward. Budgets for finance awards or tombstones are typically a function of the size of the deal. For the most part, the larger the deal, the...

The Right Approach to Lucite Embedded Awards

April 17, 2025 by David Parry

Lucite embedded awards can provide recipients with something that is truly deserving of that overused description “unique”. Most award and commemorative options are simply taken off some factory shelf.  Your “unique” award might, ten...

Deal Tombstones: 5 Ways to Magnify Their Marketing Impact

March 12, 2025 by David Parry

If may be new to deal tombstones or, as they're also more commonly known, "deal toys". To the extent you do know them, they might seem like a waste of time, money, and effort. The word "toy", after all, usually tends to denote something that,...

Investment Banking Deal Toys for Complex Financial Transactions

March 3, 2025 by David Parry

Investment banking deal toys seldom reflect the complexity of their underlying transactions. Take, for instance, the deal toy commemorating Dell’s landmark acquisition of EMC. The $67 billion transaction, the largest tech deal in history at the...

Employee Awards: How to Maximize Their Impact and Perceived Value

January 28, 2025 by David Parry

  It’s understandable that employee awards and recognition programs might have taken on added significance during the past several years. After all, employee engagement is a very real and immediate workplace challenge. A recent...

Corporate Award Ideas: 5 Unique, Inspired Examples

January 22, 2025 by David Parry

Most corporate award ideas are anything but inspired. Which isn't surprising. A quick online search will show that corporate awards tend to cluster around two very different and distinct categories. On one hand, you're likely to see ready-made,...

3D Crystal Etching: A Complete Guide for Deal Toys & Awards

December 12, 2024 by David Parry

3D crystal etching: it's an effect that you may not be familiar with---at least by name. And to the extent you might already be familiar with the technique, you may not have liked what you've seen. Most people associate this type of internal...

Exploring the Possibilities of Custom Lucite Award Designs

December 9, 2024 by David Parry

"Custom Lucite" is a term that's been subject to a good deal of misuse and confusion. Some vendors offer "custom" Lucites, especially "custom Lucite awards", with promises of off-the-shelf availability and next-day shipment. But if these vendors are...

Innovative Currency-Themed Deal Toys for Corporate Success

November 20, 2024 by David Parry

Currency-themed deal toys can play off a variety of creative options, including national symbols, maps, and flags. Currency nicknames have also been a rich source of ideas for commemorating currency-themed transactions.  Over the years, we've based...