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Is It Time to Reinvent Your Website?
Is your website still working for you—or just taking up space online? Barrel O’Monkeyz can help with a strategic refresh of your digital presence to boost credibility, improve UX, and drive conversions.

Does Your Brand “Go for the Gold?”
In what ways does your brand stand out from the rest? Are you “going for the gold” to make an emotional connection with your target buyers?

We Can ALL Be Creative
We all can apply creativity to our jobs and to our everyday lives. Creativity is where an idea begins, and who can say where it ends?

Does Your Brand Have Lasting Power?
Successful brands evolve with changes in the marketplace when new technologies, trends, and ways of doing business emerge. Does your brand have that kind of lasting power?

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.

But Is It Commercial?
Successful innovators not only consider the practical applications of their ideas—will this product solve a problem or fill a need—the entrepreneur in them also weighs whether the idea will be sellable. In other words, will anyone want or buy the resulting product or service?

Restart Essential: What Shape is Your Website In?
Businesses are slowly beginning to open their doors—virtual or otherwise—across the country. As they do, consumers look to company websites and social media pages for up-to-date information that reflects the current state of the business, as well as a way for them to buy product, arrange services, or get information. IS YOUR WEBSITE UP TO…

What Can You Do in 2020 to Make the New Year Your Best Yet?
I’m a firm believer that every day when we wake, we intend to do and be the best for ourselves, our friends, our families, our communities, and for our businesses. I also believe that the start of a fresh year is a special time for reflection, renewal, and re-invigoration, both personally and professionally. What worked…

Refreshing or Redoing Your Website? Don’t Forget the Importance of Design.
A good design can bring a good idea to life in every aspect your brain can imagine and your eye can see, especially in business branding and especially when it comes to your website. How long has it been since you took a good hard look at the impression your website makes? In life and…

Artistic Elements & Industrial Design: Does Your Item Pass the Copyright Test?
Whether or not the design elements of cheerleader uniforms can be copyrighted might, at first glance, seem a bit inconsequential. After all, except for certain graphics, school/team colors, or stitch patterns, cheerleader outfits are all pretty much the same, aren’t they? Not so, says the United States Supreme Court, which recently ruled on a case…

Does Your Business Have “App” Appeal?
Having an App for your business is a near must these days. Large business or small, deploying an App fills essentially the same business need that Websites first began to fill 15 or so years ago by providing customers and prospects a digital space in which to interact with your brand. In other words, if…

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Marketing Are Here
Marketers are always striving to engage consumers. It’s what we do. Through advertising, PR, direct mail, social media, special events—you name it—our goal is to expose audiences to your brand, tell them your brand story, and engage said audience in the process of buying, selling, and talking about your product or service. Now, emerging technology…