Writing

Strategy, taste,
and the psychology
of buying.

Long-form on Medium and Substack. Shorter strategy threads on X. If you found me through the writing, you already know the voice.

Essays

Personal Essay  ·  Substack

The Other Woman

The essay that started the thinking about second choices, first priorities, and the specific kind of desire that moves someone toward something they were not supposed to want. It says something about positioning that the strategy essays have not found a cleaner way to say yet.

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Brand Strategy  ·  Substack

Second Choice, First Priority

Your brand identity is not your logo or your tone of voice. It is the specific answer your business gives to a specific desire your audience carries. And when that answer is genuinely yours, it cannot be copied cleanly. People can take the packaging. They cannot take the fit.

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Brand Concept  ·  Medium

CroisBake: How a Random Tuesday Thought Became a Full Brand World

A brand being born in real time. Not from a boardroom or a research deck, but from one image arriving uninvited and being followed until there was a whole world — fully lit, already running. A case study in emotional positioning and what happens when you stop to interrogate the name.

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Brand Strategy  ·  Medium

If I Actually Built CroisBake: A Brand Blueprint

The second piece is the rigour. The location decision, the competitive landscape, the menu, the pricing, the team structure, and the internal culture. What happens when emotional brand strategy runs all the way through an idea rather than sitting on top of it.

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What the writing covers

01

Emotional Positioning

Why desire moves differently from need, and how brands position themselves inside it.

02

Brand Identity

What a brand actually is underneath the logo and the colour palette.

03

The Psychology of Buying

The emotional architecture that precedes every transaction. What people are really purchasing.

04

Founder Brands

What happens when the founder is the brand and the brand cannot yet exist without them.

05

Nigerian Brands

How Nigerian companies build, compete, and position in a market that rewards specificity.

06

Content Strategy

The architecture behind content that builds something rather than just filling a calendar.


Where to find the writing

S

Substack

Long-form essays

socialmedialami.substack.com →
M

Medium

Case studies and long-form

medium.com/@lamideagusto →
X

X / Twitter

Strategy threads

@lamideee_a →