How To Rank in Google Maps 3-Pack

Do you want to rank on Google’s Local 3-Pack? These are valuable positions for businesses with a local presence. Recently, Google changed the layout of the search results desktop. Now they look more like mobile search results. The Local 3 -Pack is now displayed before the organic search results on all devices.This is pretty huge. […]

The 3 P’s I Learned from my Dog: Purpose, Patience, Presence

Hi, This is Caesar, my partner in crime. He can be a handful, but you couldn’t ask for a better dog. What does this adorable creature have to do with life as a marketer? Ironically, a lot. Were it not for Caesar’s ‘guidance,’ I’d still be trying to wrap my head around the importance of […]

Oh S$^%, My Site Was Supposed to be Intuitive

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. So, it helps […]

Being an Intern is About Getting your Mind Blown Regularly

I think it would be a good idea to paint a brief picture of what the past 6-8 months have looked like for me, in order to provide a little bit more context for my expectations and experience of being an intern at Cheeky Monkey Media. The Beginning I began my internship at Cheeky Monkey […]

Bootstrap Carousel + Drupal Paragraphs = Magic

Find out how to create a page, add a Slide Container, add a Slide, repeat. You’ll even learn how you could make a Video Slide, Testimonial Slide and more, all available in the one Slide Container, just by adding more bundles!

Digital Marketing Results 1 of 4: Where Are You On Your Online Marketing Adventure?

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 goals: Convert leads into new buying customers Convert current, inactive, or lost customers into repeat customers If your organization […]

Getting that Grant: Where to Get it and How to Apply

Talking to friends and Cheeky Monkey clients who work in non-profits, I’ve learned that grants make up a large chunk of the funding available to nonprofits. Before I continue, I should let you know that Cheeky Monkey does not have funding consultants or grant writers on staff (though some of us do have some experience in […]

Tips for Talking to Your Boss

If you’re excited about the upcoming website project or think that tackling the website might be the right step forward for your organization, you may need to get the rest of your team on board. …especially given that you will need your executive team to help shape the project’s direction. With so many things on […]

4 Things I Learned from Baseball

I never expected to learn life lessons from sports, but it happened. I started playing organized sports at 4 and haven’t stopped since. I grew up playing hockey, soccer, and basketball, but baseball was always my favorite. I was a command pitcher. A guy that never threw the fastest but rarely missed a target. It […]

Introduction to Buyer Personas

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 intuitive, engaging, and easy-to-use thing is that it: #1 depends on what you want people to do […]