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Bring Great Ideas to Life with Strategy
Many great ideas simply shrivel on the vine. Building a strategy to support your great idea is the key to bettering your odds for success.

Are You Planning for Success?
Guesswork and worry are huge energy drains. Imagine what removing those drains through planning would do for your life, your business, and your career.

Language: It’s in the Way That You Use It
Language serves as a potent tool, capable of fostering empathy, building bridges, and transcending barriers. How do the words and attitude you use impact your brand story?

Does Your Content Give Consumers What They Want?
The job of connecting with consumers these days can be tough—but it’s not impossible. How can marketers communicate with people who don’t want to be interrupted?

Know Your Communication Style: Time, Place, and Audience Matter
The authentic, genuine YOU that you present to an audience should NEVER change, but your communication style should change to suit the context and ensure optimal connection and understanding.

Networking Remains Crucial to Career and Business Success
Networking may be old school, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less crucial to career or business success. Attend those mixers. Establish those connections. Get engaged.

Is This the Year You Get Serious About Social Media?
Businesses must engage prospects and customers where they consume information for work and for pleasure. If you’re not there but they are, you could be (and most likely are) missing out.

Happy New Year’s from Barrel O’Monkeyz!
Cheers to the Season and wishing you and yours the best for 2024 and beyond!

Happy Holidays from Barrel O’Monkeyz!
Happy Holidays from Barrel O’Monkeyz!

10 Ways to Give, Because Giving Is Better than Receiving
The amount we spend on giving, whether it’s $5 or $500, doesn’t seem to matter. It’s the act of giving that matters most.

Pace Yourself and Your Business So You Can Maintain Momentum through the Holidays
After a long year, you’ve earned a holiday respite from the daily grind. But you must also maintain momentum toward the goals you set at the start of the year. Master the art of pacing yourself to ensure there’s something left in the tank come December.

Ten Keys to Staying Focused When Times Are Busy
What are you doing to cope with the daily distractions and diversions of December holidays? Try out my “Ten Keys to Staying Focused When Times Are Busy.”

Non-Retailers Need to Market During the Holidays Too
This time of year, marketing seems to be focused on one thing: attracting shoppers and their eager wallets and purses filled with credit cards and cash. That said, there’s still plenty of consumer bandwidth left for non-retailers to get in on the holiday season action.

In This Season of Thanksgiving, for What Are You Most Grateful?
In business and in life, there are just some things we love to do and some things we abhor—even if we’re good at them. What we like gives us energy, what we don’t drains it. In that light, let’s explore some realistic options for overcoming energy drains and gains at home and at work.

Given the Choice, Why Not Embrace Optimism?
In business and in life, there are just some things we love to do and some things we abhor—even if we’re good at them. What we like gives us energy, what we don’t drains it. In that light, let’s explore some realistic options for overcoming energy drains and gains at home and at work.

Do You Work Smart? Tips for Overcoming Energy Drains at Work and Elsewhere
In business and in life, there are just some things we love to do and some things we abhor—even if we’re good at them. What we like gives us energy, what we don’t drains it. In that light, let’s explore some realistic options for overcoming energy drains and gains at home and at work.