Sales Recognition Awards: a Single Tip to Transform Their Value

November 6, 2023 by David Parry

Sales recognition awards can be invaluable to the performance and destiny of your organization. At least that's the wisdom put out, not surprisingly, by organizations that sell sales recognition awards. But despite the self-serving insights, and...

5 Ideas for “Green” and Sustainability-Themed Deal Toys

September 20, 2023 by David Parry

Sustainability isn't exactly a new focus, either for financial transactions themselves or for the deal toys that commemorate them. After all, sustainability has been a corporate tenet for decades now, and become the centerpiece of any number of...

Oil and Gas Deal Toys That Will Leave an Impression

September 5, 2023 by David Parry

When ordering oil and gas deal toys, one of your top priorities should be making them memorable. Most deals require a significant amount of time, effort, and expertise, and you want your deal toy to reflect and truly commemorate that achievement....

Closing Dinner Deal Toys: 5 Ways to Avoid Disaster

August 14, 2023 by David Parry

Tips to Avoid Pitfalls in Closing Dinner Deal Toys What happened to one analyst's deal toys ---deal toys that were supposed to be given out at a closing dinner that very night----was more than a little scary. Maybe an even better word, as you'll...

5 Investment Banking Tombstones for 5 Remarkable Deals

August 1, 2023 by David Parry

The phrase "investment banking tombstones" tends to conjure up some immediate associations. Buttoned-up, drab, and probably most of all, boring. A lot of that's undoubtedly due to the word "tombstone". In just about any context, the word pretty...

Unique Code Name-Inspired Deal Toys for Your Next Big Deal

July 21, 2023 by David Parry

Code names offer a rich, and too often neglected, source of deal toy ideas. Code names tend to provide ready-made design ideas because they also tend to be both colorful and evocative. The code names for high-profile deals have included, for...

Innovative Currency Themed Deal Toys for Corporate Success

July 11, 2023 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...

Dinosaur Deal Toys: The Case of The Missing Underwriters

May 18, 2023 by David Parry

In the 40+ years that The Corporate Presence has been designing and producing deal toys, we've worked with a large and varied list of clients. Sadly, many of those clients are no longer with us. As we've noted in our installments of the Dinosaur...

The DreamWorks IPO Deal Toy: The Duel Behind The “Shrek” Design

April 27, 2023 by David Parry

The DreamWorks IPO deal toy design shouldn’t have been too surprising.  Even now, almost 20 years later, the Shrek-inspired, translucent green design may still seem like an obvious, almost inevitable choice. But it was also a design choice...