The Brolik blog

We love launching brands, creating entertaining content and designing smart, friendly websites and applications. We also like to discuss our experiences and advice regarding these topics here on the Brolik Blog.

Digital Transformation Starts With Your Customers

Digital transformation is a popular term these days. Immediately we jump to new technologies that make our lives easier, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Digital transformation should improve the customer experience first and foremost.

A Project Post Mortem Template

As a project manager, I’ve always been motivated by the idea that teams can learn from their mistakes to become collectively better. On the other hand, I’ve also been cognizant that if not structured properly and delivered in a way that’s constructive, feedback can be detrimental and quickly spiral out of control.

Market Like an Investor (Because Marketing is an Investment)

How lessons learned from financial investment strategy will help your business execute stronger, more successful marketing.

Quick Guide: Gathering Customer Feedback

Successful companies focus on making their customers happy. How do you make them happy? By listening and learning from them in order to improve their customer experience.

The Cross-Functional Marketing Difference

Cross-functional marketing allows your marketing campaigns to pivot, save time, innovate and achieve consistency. Here’s how.

Blogging Tips: How To Build A Team of Content Creators

Getting consistent blogging from your in-house team is challenging. Over 5 years we've tried many things– I've laid out the good and bad in this article.

Understanding and Measuring the ROI of Your Marketing

This article will lay out a top level understanding and method for you get a quick estimate of how your investment in marketing is paying off, and to show how difficult it is to get a finite, accurate answer.

Questions To Ask Before You Hire A Website Design Company

Make sure your project scope, needs, expectations and values line up well with the website design company that your hire.

Sales Techniques: Closing Sales With The First Conversation

No matter what you are selling, it’s important that certain information is collected and that the client leaves the first sales meeting feeling confident. You want them to feel that they are talking to the right person and that your company is both able and willing to support and guide them through the process.

Tracking Matters

With so much big data and analytics options, tracking digital marketing initiatives can be daunting. Use this scrappy tool set to identify which of your initiatives are working and which are just wasting your money.

Human or Scalable... What's Better For Business Growth?

Is building for scale the only way to grow a business? Some businesses should focus on the customer and not get fixated on scaling right away.

How to Build an App and Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

In 2014, if you’re thinking about creating an app, strongly consider the MVP approach. Otherwise, you might fail.