
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.

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.

The Right People for the Job: Employee Engagement Revisited
Post-Labor Day weekend seemed like a good time to reflect on work, employee engagement, and how hiring the right people for the job who are happy and passionate about their work affects your brand. The Barrel O’Monkeyz team consists of engaged individuals dedicated to serving the Monkeyz mission and all our clients. Simply put, we’re…

Let’s Explore: Is Taking A Stance Good for Business?
Does your business take a stand on issues? As people, it’s difficult not too. After all, businesses are made up of people. We all have opinions, beliefs, and values—so taking a stand on an issue can be tough to avoid, whether it’s an official company stance or not, especially with social media making it easy…

Restart Essential: Your Public Relations Strategy
At the heart of any successful company’s growth strategy, you will find a well-thought out and executed Public Relations campaign, and PR is especially critical now as companies reopen and reconnect with consumers. The content of your public relations leads to dialogue with customers and customers-to-be, and dialogue leads to full-blown conversations that create buzz about…

Restart Essential: Your Digital Marketing Strategy
Even when we’re not dealing with a worldwide pandemic, subsequent economic slow down, and an “uneven” re-opening of businesses and the economy nationwide, digital marketing is not as simple as posting some content to your blog or website and sharing on social media. You need a strategy and the tools to deliver, now more than…

Restart Essential: 11 Social Media Best Practices
Now that businesses are reopening and the economy is seeing a bit of a bounce back, it’s time to revisit those crucial elements of your business growth strategy. Needless to say, how you utilize social media should be chief among your marketing tactics when it comes to engaging customers and reaching out to potential new ones. In…

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…

Don’t Let Analysis-Paralysis Stop You in Your Tracks
In the best of all worlds, for every decision we make and every action we take we would have sufficient time to consider every angle, think through all scenarios, and answer every “what if” question that comes to mind. We don’t live in such a world. In business, especially, success often depends on the ability…