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22 September 2026

Why a logo is not a brand

Most businesses have a logo and no brand. The difference shows up the first time somebody other than the designer has to make something.

22 September 2026

When does a business actually need a rebrand

Most businesses that want a rebrand do not need one. They need what they already have applied properly. Here is how to tell which you are.

22 September 2026

How to check whether AI knows your business

You can find out in twenty minutes what AI assistants think your business is, and who they recommend instead of you. Here is the test.

22 September 2026

Why AI recommends your competitor instead of you

It usually has nothing to do with which business is better. It has to do with which one is easier for a machine to describe with confidence.

22 September 2026

How to get Google reviews for your business in Nigeria

Reviews are the one part of your Google presence you cannot build yourself. That is exactly why they count for so much.

22 September 2026

How to know where your customers actually came from

If you cannot say which half of your marketing is working, you are missing three specific things, and none of them is expensive.

19 September 2026

What the View Score measures

One question, asked the same way of every company. How easy is it for a customer to find you? Here is what goes into the answer and what deliberately does not.

19 September 2026

How to set up WhatsApp Business properly in Nigeria

More Nigerian businesses close sales on WhatsApp than on their own website, and most are running it from a personal account with no catalogue and no way to be found.

19 September 2026

Do Facebook and Instagram ads work in Nigeria

They work, and more reliably than search for a lot of Nigerian businesses. The money is usually lost somewhere other than the targeting, which is where everyone looks.

19 September 2026

How to hire a social media manager in Nigeria

Most of these hires fail the same way. Somebody posts diligently for six months and nothing happens, and both sides are confused, because nobody agreed what success was.

19 September 2026

How to brief a website designer in Nigeria

Most website disputes in this market are not about design. They are about things nobody agreed at the start, and all of them are cheap to settle in advance.

19 September 2026

Why your website is slow in Nigeria, and how to fix it

Your website is probably fine on the laptop it was built on. The question is what it does on a phone, on mobile data, in Lagos traffic, and that is a different website.

19 September 2026

What to do when another business has your name online

You can do everything right and still not rank first for your own name. Google is not being unfair, it genuinely cannot tell which of you the searcher means. Here is how you tell it.

18 September 2026

Why follower count is not visibility

A follower count is the easiest number in marketing to buy and the hardest to spend. Here is the number that actually decides whether a customer finds you.

17 September 2026

How to get your business on Google Maps in Nigeria

For most Nigerian businesses with a location, this free listing is worth more than anything else they could do online. It is also where the process most often stalls, for reasons particular to here.

16 September 2026

What a free digital audit actually checks

Most free audits are a form that runs one automated tool and emails you a red score to frighten you into a call. Here is what a real one looks at, and what it honestly cannot see.

15 September 2026

Do Google Ads work in Nigeria

Yes, and more often than not the money is lost somewhere other than the advertising. Usually on the page the click lands on, or on clicks from people who could never have bought anything.

14 September 2026

How to rank higher on Google in Nigeria

Ranking is not one thing. It is three, they have to be done in order, and most of the money wasted on it in Nigeria goes on the third while the first is still broken.

13 September 2026

How to get your business mentioned by ChatGPT

Nobody can make an assistant recommend you. What you can do is remove every reason it currently has to leave you out, and in Nigeria that bar is still remarkably low.

12 September 2026

How to choose a digital marketing agency in Nigeria

Nobody can honestly tell you which agency is best, including us. What you can do is test any of them yourself in about twenty minutes, before you are on a call and being charmed.

11 September 2026

Why your business does not show up on Google

There are five reasons, they are not equally likely, and the first thing to do is work out which one you have. Guessing is how people spend a year fixing the wrong thing.

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