Category: Tips & Tricks

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...

Planning a Business Anniversary: 5 Crucial, Preliminary Tips

September 16, 2024 by David Parry

If you're planning, or even just considering a business anniversary celebration, you may already be aware of an overwhelming array of options and suggestions. These range from opulent black-tie events to more subdued gatherings. They also run the...

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...

Do Lawyers Get Deal Toys?

August 15, 2024 by David Parry

Yes, lawyers do, in fact, get deal toys. That's been the case since the practice of giving out deal toys first took root among investment bankers and dealmakers back in the 1970's. But that's probably not the most relevant or illuminating...

Custom Lucite Embedments: The Questions You Should Really be Asking

August 7, 2024 by David Parry

Custom Lucite embedments, as you may already know, offer an ideal way to preserve, showcase, and honor prized items and objects. Unless you don't know what you're doing. Or you don't know enough about Lucite embedments to ask the important...

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...