Category: Tips & Tricks

The New York IB Powerhouse Nicknamed “Wasserella”

October 25, 2022 by David Parry

This post was originally written to commemorate the 40th anniversary of The Corporate Presence as a provider of deal toys and custom awards. It's also part of a series of posts celebrating some of the noteworthy deals---and personalities behind...

Special Event Commemoratives That Will Stand the Test of Time

April 21, 2022 by David Parry

Any time you order an award to commemorate a special event for your company or organization, you obviously want that award to stand the test of time. After all, that’s the entire point of commemorating the occasion: to ensure that years, and even...

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"...

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...