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Marketing
6 Essential Business Growth Strategies You Need to Know
September 15, 2017 / Treena Bjarnason Did you know that only 20 percent of startups survive their first year of operation? It gets worse. After five years, that figure goes up to 50 percent. And in a decade, only one-third will make it. Now take note that this doesn’t apply to owners who d… Read more
More than Keywords: SEO and Website Maintenance
March 16, 2017 / Treena Bjarnason Hi! You’ve heard of SEO right? It’s also called search engine optimization. It’s that weird thing marketers and techies talk about, and then they wave their magic wands and you’re suddenly ranking at the top or near the top of the Googles. A lot of peo… Read more
How to Create Email Campaigns that Work
February 1, 2017 / Treena Bjarnason Email marketing has the potential to have the highest return on investment (ROI) of all your marketing efforts. According to the 2016 State of Email Report published by Litmus, email has an ROI “of 38-to-1 on every dollar invested.” That’s pretty signi… Read more
How to Choose a Digital Marketing Agency
November 3, 2016 / Treena Bjarnason Finding the best digital marketing agency with a plethora of options can be mind-boggling, headache-inducing, and just plain overwhelming. After hours and hours of searching, the small shred of sanity that you have left will scream at you to JUST PICK… Read more
4 Questions to Help You Organize Your AdWords Campaigns Better
November 2, 2016 / Ashley Olsen Last September, the Cheeky Monkey Media team headed to MozCon in Seattle, Washington. If you’ve never been to this conference, add it to your must-attend list. We met some super cool people, and we had a chance to talk shop with others in our field. On… Read more
From Failed Business Venture to Thriving Digital Marketing Agency
September 29, 2016 / Treena Bjarnason The Branding Exercise About a month ago, I sat down to do a branding exercise using Park Howell’s 10-step story cycle. For those of you that have read my blog posts before, you’ve probably noticed that I’m a big fan of the Business of Story podcast and… Read more
How to Create a Marketing Plan that Delivers
September 27, 2016 / Treena Bjarnason My Story: The Plan that Wasn’t I’m sitting in my sweatpants, my hair’s a mess, and I’m staring at the computer screen. My dog Caesar lays at my feet, as done with the day as I am. It’s 11:00pm, and I’m putting the finishing touches on the marketing str… Read more
Breaking Down Your Content Marketing Strategy = Success
September 22, 2016 / Rick Bjarnason If you’re a content marketer in today’s day and age, you’re probably wondering what you should be doing to achieve greater success with your content marketing strategy. It comes down to content marketing success metrics, because as one unknown, but cle… Read more
Oh S$^%, My Site Was Supposed to be Intuitive
August 23, 2016 / Treena Bjarnason When you start a project, it helps to know why you are doing it and what you want to achieve with it. Do you ever struggle with this clarifying process? I know I do. It’s just so easy to get caught up in the details and lose sight of the big picture. S… Read more
Digital Marketing Results 1 of 4: Where Are You On Your Online Marketing Adventure?
August 4, 2016 / Treena Bjarnason You are responsible for your organization’s marketing results, this includes the results you’re getting from your website. If we’re talking about digital marketing specifically, for most companies large or small, results are measured against 2 primary… Read more
Introduction to Buyer Personas
July 21, 2016 / Treena Bjarnason As a digital solutions organization that’s been traditionally known as a web design and development shop, we get a lot of requests from organizations that would like an intuitive, engaging, easy-to-use, and/or pretty. The thing about this whole intuiti… Read more