Creative Deal Toy Ideas: 7 Frequently Overlooked Sources of Inspiration

July 27, 2023 by David Parry

Coming up with creative deal toy ideas can be a chore for bankers Especially when they're faced with the same predictable, stock design suggestions. Fortunately, there are a number of imaginative–though commonly overlooked— design...

How to Make Tombstone Awards More Memorable

March 25, 2024 by David Parry

Tombstone awards tend to have their own built-in cachet and percevied value. Even the most conventional tombstones have tremendous significance for recipients---for the simple reason that they embody all the time and effort devoted to closing a...

Exploring the Possibilities of Custom Lucite Award Designs

March 21, 2024 by David Parry

"Custom Lucite" is a term that's been subject to a good deal of misuse and confusion. Some vendors offer "custom" Lucites, especially "custom Lucite awards", with promises of off-the-shelf availability and next-day shipment. But if these vendors are...

The Crucial Employee Awards Opportunity You’re Probably Missing

March 20, 2024 by David Parry

It’s understandable that employee awards and recognition programs might have taken on added significance during the past several years. After all, employee engagement is a very real and immediate workplace challenge. A recent Harvard Business...

7 Often-Overlooked Standard Deal Toy Shapes

March 14, 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

March 5, 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....

Deal Tombstones: 5 Ways to Magnify Their Marketing Impact

February 9, 2024 by David Parry

If may be new to deal tombstones or, as they're also more commonly known, "deal toys". To the extent you do know them, they might seem like a waste of time, money, and effort. The word "toy", after all, usually tends to denote something that,...

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

January 20, 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...

Financial Tombstones: 7 Things You Should Know

January 19, 2024 by David Parry

What exactly are "financial tombstones"? You can find some good definitions online, though some are slightly inaccurate, or just incomplete. For instance, you may have come across this: "Financial tombstones (also known as 'deal toys') are...