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Summer is a time for travel and vacations, but that doesn’t mean your marketing efforts should take a timeout. While you and your staff are recharging body, mind, and spirit with a little summertime R&R, there are plenty of things you can do over the next several months to ensure your business growth efforts don’t…

Nowadays, whether it’s for work or for play, we take our tech with us everywhere we go—even moms. When we don’t have our tech with us, or worse yet we drop and damage it, we’re at a loss. This Mother’s Day, busy moms are sure to appreciate a practical and thoughtful gift that supports their…

We can’t be all work and no play. I’m even known to kick back on occasion. For students, the need to take a break can be very real, especially this time of year. In this look at what’s inside student go-bags, let’s explore some essentials: mobile power, and how to protect against dropping or bumping…

Science Tells Us Luck is Real – and We Help to Create It! Fresh on the heels of a 2020 that most of us would rather forget, writing about “luck” might seem like an odd topic. But, with St. Patrick’s Day fast approaching, the subject of luck is bound to come up in conversation. In…

In the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day, Barrel O’Monkeyz is running a special promotion now through March 17 where you could win a free one-hour, one-on-one “beverage” meeting with either the King Monkey himself, Paul June, or BOM’s Account Executive Dina Daglas. This would be a great opportunity for you to explore questions about digital…

It’s no surprise that this time of year the focus is on giving and receiving gifts. After all, who doesn’t like to get a nice gift? But it’s not all about “getting.” In fact, giving, it seems, is more important to us. A few years ago, I wrote a blog about giving and how, no…

The fall and winter holidays are upon us—and all the shopping, get-togethers with friends and family, and upset to our normal routines can be enough to bump our stress levels into the stratosphere as we make our way through the season. Maintaining year-round healthy habits and avoiding the temptations of overindulgence can give your body…

Do the holidays have your office, your team, or even you distracted? Has your post-Thanksgiving “hangover” morphed into a full-blown malaise as you enter the stretch run for what remains of 2017? It’s easy, quite common, and completely understandable for you and/or your team to fall off the work bandwagon for a time around the…

Father’s Day is fast approaching. It’s Sunday, June 18, for those of you who need a reminder. My daughters are growing like weeds. They amaze me every day with their words, their actions, the sibling rivalry and sibling bonds that are developing even at their young ages, and of course their affection for dear old…

Memorial Day is in the rear-view mirror, which means summer weather is about to hit and vacation “season” soon will be in full swing, including for yours truly and the Monkeyz staff. It’s an annual rite that’s good for the body, mind, and spirit—and good for recharging the batteries so you’re in tip-top fighting shape…

Does writing about social media in a Mother’s Day blog mean I’ve completely surrendered to the digital age? Perhaps. But is that such a bad thing? These are the times in which we live, after all. I was recently in a brainstorming session with my team. The topic of old school versus new school approaches…

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…