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.

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.

Optimization vs Diversification

Balance performance with resilience in digital 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.

Websites Need to be Predictable, Not Boring

Where has the soul in web design gone? The web in general has grown in the right direction in terms of usability, but we've lost some of the bold creativity in the process. How can we recapture the soul? And more importantly why should we?

How To Create A Successful Content Hub

We're all blogging, but how can we take our content marketing to the next level? If you have a focused series of evergreen content, consider planning and building a content hub for your brand.

Digital Marketing Research in The Age of "Test Everything"

Research helps marketers to be more effective in a shorter amount of time by revealing which assumptions are safe to make as they kick off their campaigns.

Keyword Research for Non Rocket Scientists

Keyword research can be very time consuming, challenging and cumbersome, but it serves as one of the most important first steps of SEO.

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.

How Much Does a Custom Website Cost?

Custom website costs will vary based on your company size, extent of needs, features and functionality, and the quality and experience of your website design company. So how do you decide what company, budget and website solution is right for you?