2016 and we are 8!
Welcome to the year of the Monkey! Monkeys are clever, resourceful animals and a little bit cheeky! Values for our business really! Not only does 2016 welcome the year of the Monkey in Chinese Culture, Print Monkey is 8 years old in 2016! No. 8 has long been regarded as the luckiest number in Chinese […]
Bike Riding 2015
So on 2nd August 2015, I took on what would be my biggest physical challenge to date – riding 100 miles through London & the surrey countryside. All in aid of a fantastic charity Alex’s Wish. I was incredibly nervous for the event, although I had trained hard, I was anxious about what to expect, how […]
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 […]