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Mike Brevik

Mike Brevik

Founder and "Chief Barketing Officer" of Cyberdogz, a branding agency in Hawley, MN, and host of the Brand Retro with Cyberdogz podcast.

Sep 10, 2026

8:55
What if I'm a plumber?
8:57
Yeah, so I look at different things that, first of all, what names are out there, what's common, what's recognizable, not necessarily that I want to follow that, but I want to avoid certain things.
9:06
And then I also want to lean into like the customer behavior, because if there's like a, if there's a schematic or a way that they kind of name businesses within an industry, I want to take that into consideration.
9:18
And I might factor that into my business name.
9:20
But I just want awareness of who all is doing what so that when I go searching for names or I try to create a name that it actually makes sense.
9:29
And the other thing is you want it to be easy to spell.
9:32
You want it to be unique.

31 MINS LATER

40:55
I'm going to pay you to set up the SEO stuff, to do the logo correctly, to pick the colors correctly based on feelings, because that's like a real thing, right? So what if I am somebody listening to this and I'm saying, okay, that's great, Mary Jo and Mike, but how much do I need if I don't want to do it all myself, but I want it done correctly because I know I'm going to be successful.
1:30
Kind of what was your take when you mentioned it to me? I mean,
1:33
yeah, you were open to it, but at the end of the day, I think like anybody or even when I started my own podcast, there's that resistance there because you're like, well, I don't know how to do it or I don't know what to say or what am I going to do every week? Like, I just I don't know that I've got that much.
1:51
And then I don't know, once you start doing it and you start to realize that.
1:56
that these conversations are happening all day, every day with colleagues and clients and team.
2:03
And you're like, man, I do talk about this all the time.
2:06
So maybe I'm not that far off.
2:08
So I don't know if you had that realization or not, but like...

12 MINS LATER

13:49
But hopefully we are growing in our knowledge and understanding of the things that is our business.

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