
Staying Relevant: Is Your Online Presence Due for a Refresh?
Your online presence is often the first impression potential customers have of your brand. Is your website up to the task? What about your social media pages? Let’s explore …

Starting Strong: Making 2025 Your Best Year Yet
By thoughtfully considering your successes, challenges, and intentions, you gain valuable insight into where you stand and where you need to go in 2025 and beyond.

Analytics: Know Thy Customer Through Technology
Knowing how many people are accessing your web site, what their experience of it is, and whether they are buying what you’re selling is . . . priceless.

Good, Bad, or Fake? Finding Value In Online Reviews
Reviews are fundamental to online consumerism. Without reviews to read through, how do you know the widget you’ve been eyeing from “Company X” is all it’s cracked up to be? You’ve never heard of Company X and their particular version of widget, so how can you be sure you’re getting good value for your money?…

In Times of Uncertainty, Brands Must Be More than Fair Weather Friends
When things are going well, it’s easy for businesses to be generous with their time, resources, patience, and general good will. It’s easy to be confident, bold, and forward thinking. But when times get rough or uncertain, many brands simply retreat, begin to focus inwardly, and hunker down, fearful of the future and what it…

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…

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…

Are You Growing Your “Brand Fans”?
Inbound Marketing is the best way to turn strangers into customers and “brand fans” excited to promote your business, and at the center of this Inbound Marketing universe is your website. Companies are 3 times as likely to see higher return on investment (ROI) on Inbound Marketing campaigns than on outbound. 84% of small businesses…

Nine Promotional Hacks to Keep Your Marketing from Taking a Vacation this Summer
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…

Digital Marketing: Look Before You Leap to Boost Effectiveness
Digital marketing, like traditional marketing, is most effective when you “look before you leap.” In other words, consider goals and objectives, and then focus on necessary tactics, not the other way around. Sounds straightforward, I know, a real no-brainer, but you’d be surprised. Many digital marketers are more about selling tactics—aka “services”—rather than selling what…

Do Your Landing Pages Make the Grade?
You’ve labored long and hard to get your search marketing right where you want it: You employed Search Engine Marketing (SEM) techniques by paying for clicks through Google AdWords to get your website front and center in the search results, gaining traction for your new product. At the same time, you employed Search Engine…

Write Search Marketing Content for People, Not Computers
A common misconception about effective search marketing is that you need to pack your content full of keywords so search bots will take notice. Sure, your content needs to contain keywords and phrases your target buyers will use to find you, but not to the point incoherence. What good will it do for a search…