Is Your Brand Stuck in Neutral?
Feeling stuck with your brand? Explore these five branding fundamentals. You might uncover where your message needs sharpening—or spark inspiration for a bold, transformative rebrand.
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?
Give Them Reasons to Believe in Your Brand
The tools may change over the years, but the fundamentals of brand building do not. Your brand story depends on giving your customers reasons to believe you can deliver. Nowadays it’s easier than ever to get your message out there. Let’s take a look at a blog from a few years back for some proven…
Give Them Reasons to Believe in Your Brand
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2016 Holiday Gift Guide – Monkeyz Style
Looking for unique gifts for all the little monkeys on your list? Then look no further, the 2016 edition of the Barrel O’Monkeyz holiday gift giving guide is finally here—and it may be just what you need to find that special something for that special someone on your list either now or the whole year…
Your Evolving Brand: Can it Stand the Test of Time?
Sometimes it’s fun to look back and wonder, what was I doing on this day a year ago, two, three . . . you get the idea. Looking back is a good way to see how or if your thinking has changed or if you’ve made the progress you’d planned on (or not). Perusing the…
Winners Stay True to Their Brands
My Oakland Raiders started off their 2016-17 NFL season with a victory, and my LA Dodgers are four games up on the Giants as I write this. All is good (for the moment) in the Paul June sports multi-verse. Yes, I know—they really aren’t “my” teams, but it’s hard to think of them otherwise when…
Do You Have A Story to Tell?
Labor Day weekend has come and gone. It’s the proverbial marker to end summer and begin fall, though by the calendar (and for those of us in warmer climes) summer has a few more weeks on the dance card. Chances are you got together with friends and family at some point this weekend and probably…
Branding: What’s in a name?
I get asked all the time where I came up with the name “Barrel O’Monkeyz.” I’ve always been intrigued by monkeys. They always seem to be having fun. Monkeys make me laugh. And that’s a big part of who I am . . . and the kind of organization I wanted my company to be.…
Holiday Gift Ideas from the Barrel O’ Monkeyz Team
It’s that time of year again, crunch time for getting a gift for that special “someone” in your life. If you’ve been tardy in hitting the mall or ordering online, or simply slept through Black Friday and Cyber Monday, worry not. You’re not quite at the two-minute warning (yet) but you are getting close! Members…
Make Gratitude a Daily Habit
Holidays are about tradition, and like me, I am sure you have a few “rituals” you engage in around the “winter” holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah, etc. Some traditions are grounded in faith and religion, while others are as simple as family and friend get-togethers or watching a favorite holiday special. (Who doesn’t remember as…
Tips to Make Your Team Thrive
Entrepreneurs often suffer from an “I can do it all myself” mindset. It comes with the territory. They act as their own CEOs, accountants, administrative assistants, marketing leaders, sales reps, technical support specialists, travel agents, etc. You name it; most entrepreneurs are proverbial “jacks-of-all-trades.” Is this how you run your business, or even your household?…
