A Leap of Faith
Inspiration comes from various sources and there is often only one thing you take from people that inspires you to drive forward. I heard Deirdre Bounds speak last year. Deirdre started her business from a bedsit and turned it into the world’s biggest gap year company. She then sold it to a FTSE 100 company for […]
Disruption…. a strategy for business success?
I’ve recently read a few articles where the word ‘Disruption’ was used, describing brand strategy and also as a method or route to continued success and it got me thinking. We talk a lot of brand evolvement but also the importance of maintaining consistency – is consistency though a little stale now, should we all […]
Happy New Pencil Case Day
I’ve always hated new year, the first time I was allowed to stay up as a child, I remember the expectation of something fabulous about to happen at midnight and in reality, the clock struck midnight, there was a big cheer, a few fireworks from neighbouring parties and then off to bed! It didn’t meet […]
Working Parents
The other interesting article I found in The Drum recently was about Working Parents, with two children under 10, both myself and Andy can resonate and sympathise with so much of the respondents comments. However, we started Print Monkey for a number of reasons, not least because there was an opportunity to procure print solutions […]
Monkeys do Latitude
So it was Christmas day in the monkey household and the little monkeys were opening presents, they get to an envelope from Bouncy Becky (if you’re local you’ll know her – personal trainer who uses mini trampolines) they tear it open on out falls 2 kid tickets to Latitude 2014 ! Fast forward to […]
Women – Tough to get through to the top….?
Two interesting articles in The Drum magazine recently discussed Women in Marketing and also Working Parents. As I fit quite nicely into both those groups, I found the articles really interesting. The first discusses Women in Marketing and how women are struggling to gain access to the same opportunities of their male counterparts. Interestingly lack […]
The Beautiful Game…?
So the England Football team have disappointed us again! I am no football expert, to be fair I’m not even interested that much in the beautiful game. What I am interested in is arguably the best Grand Slam tennis tournament there is, which starts this week, Wimbledon. And there’s hope and anticipation that maybe, just maybe […]
Disruption – a new business strategy?
I’ve recently read a few articles where the word ‘Disruption’ was used, describing brand strategy and also as a method or route to continued success and it got me thinking. We talk a lot of brand evolvement but also the importance of maintaining consistency – is consistency though a little stale now, should we all […]