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Unlock Success: Deep-Dive Assessments Crucial to Laying Strategic Groundwork
Barrel O’Monkeyz implements major new projects and onboards clients with a deep-dive assessment that analyzes current market conditions, competitors, target audience demographics, and client strengths and weaknesses to lay the groundwork for a successful strategic plan.
Does Your Brand Have Influence?
Is your company doing all it can to leverage influencers in your field or industry to drive engagement and brings in new audiences? I’ve written in this space over the years about how brands can put influencer marketing to work for them. Now as technology and the...
The Purpose Behind Your Brand: Why Are You In Business?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBfp1weWbPg WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE! It takes a team to achieve success and thrive in today’s busy world, and the Barrel O'Monkeyz team is filled with All Stars! Every so often, I like to highlight a member of the Barrel O'Monkeyz...
The Dos and Don’ts of Choosing Your WordPress Theme
I’m going to go out on a limb (because that’s what monkeyz do, you see) and guess that you and/or your website team aren’t in the habit of hand-coding your website’s HTML, PHP, or JavaScript on a daily basis—not unless you or they are in to that kind of thing. I’m...
Here’s How to Design the Right Logo for Your Business
If you’re a graphic designer or in the marketing biz, you’ve probably had a client or two ask, “How difficult can it be to design a logo?”—as though designing a logo is just an afterthought to whatever branding work you’re doing for them. No big deal. Designing a...
Maintain Your Marketing Momentum: Full Steam Ahead!
A good friend of mine, Frank Cowell of Elevator, recently wrote a blog about "The one thing that will Make or Break Your Marketing." Any guesses? Budget? Nope. Messaging? Nope. Creative? Nope. Those are all good guesses, and certainly each is critical to successful...
Mentoring: You Can’t Gift Someone A Future, But You Can Prepare Him or Her for It
Every now and then I use this blog space to highlight an individual or company that’s doing good work in the digital marketing, sales, or active lifestyle space, or that in some way is benefitting others through their expertise and ability to pay it forward. This is...
Does Your Blog Measure Up?
If you don’t yet have a blog, chances are you’ve thought of starting one, but just haven’t quite wrapped your brain around how it might be valuable to your business and brand-building efforts. If you do have a blog, congratulations, you’re part of the 53% of marketers...
Exceptional Times (and a Crowded Marketing Space) Call for Exceptional Content
I don't read Forbes regularly, but occasionally one of their articles catches my eye—especially if it's on a topic near and dear to my monkeyz heart. One such article I scoped out recently was 3 Content Marketing Trends That Will Rule 2018. The gist of this article is...
What Social Media Best Practices Do You Follow?
For most of us—even us more “seasoned” monkeyz—it’s tough to remember a time when social media wasn’t front and center to our lives. The reality, of course, is that social media as we know and practice it nowadays is a relative newcomer. LinkedIn became part of...
Are You Communicating Effectively with Your Brand Audience?
The ability to communicate effectively is vital to success in life, both at home and in the workplace. Effective communication requires the ability to convey information verbally or in writing clearly and concisely so that your audience—whether it’s an individual, a...
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Based in San Diego and active across southern California and beyond, Barrel O'Monkeyz serves as a seasoned, outsourced marketing agency specializing in both business-to-business and consumer-based marketing. Our barrel is full of talent and creative minds ready to help companies tell their brand stories, ramp up sales, and launch new products.