The Quiet Letter

Notes from a careful practice.

Short, practical pieces about getting Nigerian businesses found, trusted, and chosen online. No tricks, no hot takes — just the work.

01 Local SEO

Your Google Business Profile is doing more for your business than your website.

If you only had budget for one online thing this quarter, it shouldn't be a website redesign. Here's the surprisingly small task that drives most local enquiries — and why most Nigerian SMEs ignore it.

12 May 2026 · 7 min read Read the cover article
02 Strategy

5 things to fix on your site before spending one naira on ads.

Running ads to a leaky site is a fast way to burn budget. These five free, boring fixes will lift conversions before you write a single ad headline.

28 April 2026 · 5 min read Read
03 Audit Method

How to read your own digital audit (without an MBA).

Audits are observations, not verdicts. Here's our reading guide for the founder who has 20 minutes and no patience for jargon.

14 April 2026 · 6 min read Read
04 Performance

Why your site is slow in Lagos — and how to fix it.

Most Nigerian SME sites take 5+ seconds to load on a phone. Here's why, and the four-line checklist that fixes most of it.

30 March 2026 · 8 min read Read
05 Reputation

Reviews aren't just stars: a guide to responding like a pro.

Your response says more about your business than the review itself. A short, practical guide to handling reviews — including the bad ones.

18 March 2026 · 4 min read Read
06 Strategy

Credibility on a startup budget: 10 cheap moves that work.

You don't need a marketing team to look serious online. Ten things you can do this weekend that immediately raise the trust signal.

4 March 2026 · 9 min read Read
07 Local SEO

NAP consistency: the boring SEO fix that pays off most.

Name, Address, Phone — if these differ across the web, Google notices and your rankings suffer. The plain-English fix.

20 February 2026 · 5 min read Read
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