Category: Tips & Tricks

Promoting and Displaying Company Values in a Hybrid Workplace

February 3, 2022 by David Parry

The hybrid workplace has been an effective---not to mention necessary---adjustment since the advent of the pandemic, but it's also inevitably presented a number of challenges to both employers and employees. One of those challenges involves...

Ringing the Bell: IPO Deal Toys and Deal Gifts

January 19, 2022 by David Parry

Along with mergers & acquisitions, initial public offerings provide some of the most common occasions for deal toys and deal gifts. And 2021 was an especially busy year for the IPO market. The number of annual public offerings exceeded the 1,000...

Displaying Your Mission Statement: Lessons from a Music Producer

December 2, 2021 by David Parry

Is Displaying Your Mission Statement Worth It? After all, you may already have made the effort to put a mission or values statement in writing; and you may even already be promoting it, perhaps on your website or in some form in a reception or...

Financial Tombstone “Graveyards”: Clear Up Your Deal Backlog

October 31, 2021 by David Parry

Ordering a financial tombstone, as you've probably heard, should be the fun part of your deal; but it can sometimes be something you might be dreading, especially if you're facing a daunting backlog of deals to commemorate. Talk of "graveyards"...

Sports Deal Toys: Unique Designs for Sports Lovers

July 2, 2021 by David Parry

Tonight marks the beginning of the quarterfinal round of Euro 2020, with Switzerland, a surprise winner against reigning world champion France, taking on Spain in St. Petersburg, and Belgium, possibly without both Kevin De Bruyne and Eden Hazard,...

More “New” Dinosaur Deal Toys: Going Back to The 90’s

March 8, 2021 by David Parry

As part of our celebration of The Corporate Presence's 40th anniversary, we will be publishing several more installments of the popular series "Dinosaur Deal Toys". The deal toys featured here showcase several now-defunct firms that were once...

More Dinosaur Deal Toys – See Tombstones From The 1990’s!

January 29, 2021 by David Parry

Over the years we've presented several retrospectives featuring some of our more vintage deal toy designs. This particular collection of "Dinosaur Deal Toys" was originally published in 2016, and focuses on relics from the 90's. If you're...

Landmark IPO Deal Toys: KKR, Apple, Shrek & More!

December 15, 2020 by David Parry

Twitter, Google, KKR, Facebook, Palm, Apple, DreamWorks.... They're only some of the high-profile IPO's we've commemorated over the years. Why dwell on these tombstones from the past---some of which go back to the 80's and 90's? Yes, they...

Burgers, Bulbs, and Bavarian Tech: Some Recent European Deal Toys

November 9, 2020 by David Parry

In the many months since our last round-up of European deal toys, more than a few transactions have come our way. This post only covers a handful of the resulting deal toys we've recently designed; but the collection should give you a sense of...