Category: Tips & Tricks

Unique Crystal Awards: What Vendors Don’t Want You to Know

October 22, 2024 by David Parry

If you do a quick online search for "unique crystal awards", you'll make a surprising discovery. The search will turn up endless galleries featuring crystal designs. But very few of those designs would probably fit the definition of what you---and...

What’s the Average Turnaround Time for a Custom Deal Toy?

October 11, 2024 by David Parry

How long will it take to produce your custom deal toy? If you've been looking for a precise answer to this question online, you've probably been disappointed. You may already have seen estimates of anywhere from 1-6 weeks, which seems to provide an...

7 Often-Overlooked Standard Deal Toy Shapes

September 25, 2024 by David Parry

You probably don't spend a lot of time monitoring trends in deal toy design, specifically classic deal toy shapes. Certainly, no one's suggesting that you should be. You're much more likely to be attuned to even subtle changes in the world of...

How Transaction Tombstones Differ from Deal Toys

September 19, 2024 by David Parry

"Transaction tombstones" is one of a medley of terms that are roughly similar in meaning. They include "financial tombstones", "deal gifts", "deal tombstones", "cubes", and "corporate tombstones". There is a common denominator among these terms....

The “Classic” Deal Toy Connecting Harvard with “George of The Jungle”

September 18, 2024 by David Parry

This Friday, September 20th, marks what would have been Jay Ward's 124th birthday. The classic deal toy above may conjure up some dim memories, and not just of Casper the Friendly Ghost. The Lucite tombstone is also a vestige of another spectral...

Who Gets Custom Deal Toys (and What Exactly are They For?)

September 3, 2024 by David Parry

If you're not in the financial industry, there's a good chance you've never even heard of custom deal toys. And you're even less likely to have heard of the other, less captivating term they commonly go by: "financial tombstones". But even if...

Proud to be Providing ESPN’s ESPY Awards…Again

July 12, 2024 by David Parry

ESPN's annual ESPY awards telecast is celebrated for bringing full-on Oscar-style glitz and red carpet trappings to the international sports world. The event is also famed for emotional, and often galvanizing acceptance speeches. (ESPN itself...

5 Great Ideas for Food and Beverage Tombstones

January 15, 2024 by David Parry

Why Food and Beverage Tombstones Stand Out What's so special about these financial transactions---and their tombstones? Maybe it's the fact that they usually involve common, everyday items. Add to that the fact they often also involve...

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...