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Happy Holidays from the Barrel O’Monkeyz Team!
Paul June is King Monkey of BARREL O’MONKEYZ, a San Diego-based strategic marketing agency specializing in Sports and Active Lifestyle markets. We serve as a seasoned, outsourced marketing team for companies looking to ramp up sales and launch new products. Our barrel is full of talent and creative arms ready to prove we don’t just…

ACT NOW: CORE Gaming Backpack Kickstarter Ends Sept 22
With just days to go in Mobile Edge’s CORE Gaming Backpack kickstarter (the campaign ends at 4:55 am EDT Friday, September 22, 2017), TIME IS RUNNING OUT to support this project and be among the first to get this award-winning backpack at an incredible discount off retail pricing. While Mobile Edge is “oh so close”…

On the Road to INTERBIKE 2017
Attention all you biking enthusiasts, the future of the bicycle industry is coming to Las Vegas next week. It’s time for the annual Interbike International Bicycle Exposition where the “bicycle industry gathers to celebrate, educate, and conduct the business of cycling.” As a biking enthusiast myself, with both a personal and professional interest for what’s…

CORE Gaming Backpack by Mobile Edge: Good for Game Time, Go Time & Guaranteed for a Lifetime
One week in, Mobile Edge’s very first Kickstarter campaign to support production of its full-featured CORE Gaming Backpack is more than 20% funded toward its 45-day, $30,000 goal. Clearly, gamers know a good thing when they see it. The CORE Gaming Backpack from Mobile Edge is the real deal, and so is your opportunity to…

CORE Kickstarter—Let’s Thunderclap It!
You’ve heard of crowdsourcing—using the Internet to amass support in the form of funding or information (hence the “crowd” part of the word). Now, with Thunderclap, you can engage in crowdspeaking—using the Internet to mass-share a single message or event by social media, flash mob-style. Thunderclap for #COREKickstarter The Barrel O’Monkeyz team has set up…

Monkeyz News: Kickstarter Campaign for New Mobile Edge CORE Gaming Backpack Is LIVE!
BREAKING NEWS—Mobile Edge today announced a Kickstarter campaign to support production of the CORE Gaming Backpack, the first in its new lineup of gaming products. The CORE Gaming Backpack was designed, prototyped, and tested by gamers for gamers to provide easy access, storage, and protection for an ever-expanding universe of gaming equipment including laptop models,…

Power On With CORE: Mobile Edge Kickstarter Aims to Change the Game
Every now and then, I like to showcase some of the great work the Barrel O’Monkeyz team is doing for our clients. This happens to be one of those times—plus it represents an opportunity for you, my faithful Monkeyz blog readers, to get in on the ground floor of something I happen to think is…

BOM Goes Hollywood with Article Featured in IN Hollywood Magazine
In “Social Media: It’s Time to Get Out There and Engage (Here’s How…),” Paul June, aka the King Monkey, dispenses sage advice to readers of the 25th Anniversary issue of IN Hollywood Magazine, the Los Angeles magazine of entertainment, fashion, people, and lifestyles. Paul joins a select list of authors, thought leaders, business professionals, and…

Let’s Be Positive: Why Would You Want to be Anything Else?
Being positive broadens the mind and unburdens the soul. It leads to more creativity, greater resiliency, and rampant innovation—all those things near and dear to Barrel O’Monkeyz staff, clients, and colleagues. Where do you rate yourself personally and professionally on the positivity meter? Positivity also leads to big time benefits to your physical health and…

We’re Back: Sea Otter Bigger and Better than Ever
By all indicators, this year’s Sea Otter Classic in Monterey, CA was bigger and better than ever, with more exhibitors (400+), more sponsor banners (900+), and 8% growth in the number of athletes competing. As for the number of visitors/spectators, while the exact total isn’t available yet, the main parking area held 1,000 more vehicles…

On the Road: Sea Otter Bound!
The King Monkey (aka me, Paul June) is on the road this week to the Sea Otter Classic in Monterey, California with Kim Merrill of Merrill Marketing/Communications, a full-service public relations agency specializing in branding, marketing, and communications consulting. The Sea Otter Classic is “A Celebration of Cycling” for families, cycling enthusiasts, racers, and everything…

The Facts of Life (Insurance)
Let’s face it, for everyone reading this blog your days living large in the jungle canopy and hanging out with your monkey friends and family will, inevitably, come to an end. Sad but true. We only get to be monkeyz on God’s green Earth for so long. I know. This is not a very cheery…