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BOS Thoughts

Essays, frameworks, and field reports on how brand operating systems compound, where African businesses stall, and what actually moves scale.

12 Apr 2026 · BOS Thoughts

Your Offer Structure is Killing Your Brand

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17 Mar 2026 · BOS Thoughts

Going Deep is How You Create Brand Leverage

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3 Mar 2026 · BOS Thoughts

The Audience You Keep vs The Audience You Need

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24 Feb 2026 · BOS Thoughts

Why Strong Brands Choose Their Audience 

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11 Feb 2026 · BOS Thoughts

Why Positioning Fails Without the Courage to Say No

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2 Feb 2026 · BOS Thoughts

What Brand Positioning Really Is, and Why Yours is Probably Failing

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14 Jul 2025 · BOS Thoughts

How to Gain Clarity around your Brand

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4 Mar 2025 · BOS Thoughts

6 Easy Steps to Start Building Your Brand Today

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16 Jan 2025 · BOS Thoughts

Why You Need to Build a Brand, not Just a Business

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11 Nov 2024 · BOS Thoughts

The Very Many Branding Sins of the Democratic Party (2024 Edition)

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28 Oct 2024 · BOS Thoughts

6 Questions to Help Your Brand Thrive in Uncertain Times

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9 Sept 2024 · BOS Thoughts

How to achieve Brand Resonance

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6 May 2024 · BOS Thoughts

The 4 Levels of Branding

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8 Feb 2024 · BOS Thoughts

The Brand Bottleneck: 5 Ways Bad Branding Impacts Business Success

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2 Feb 2022 · BOS Thoughts

What makes a brand compelling?

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4 Aug 2020 · BOS Thoughts

Delivering value online

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4 Aug 2020 · BOS Thoughts

So you want a logo

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4 Aug 2020 · BOS Thoughts

The 15-minute brand sprint

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14 May 2019 · BOS Thoughts

Is design the new killer strategy?

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26 Mar 2019 · BOS Thoughts

How to think about Strategy

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25 Feb 2019 · BOS Thoughts

So, you want a website

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3 Jun 2017 · BOS Thoughts

Brand as Experience

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1 May 2017 · BOS Thoughts

8 ways having a solid Brand Identity and Strategy will propel your business or career to the next level

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8 Mar 2017 · BOS Thoughts

Why trying to rush the design process is a mistake everytime​

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16 Feb 2017 · BOS Thoughts

Understanding context is key to effective design

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3 Jan 2017 · BOS Thoughts

Case Study: Stimela Brewing Co.

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3 Jan 2017 · BOS Thoughts

Your content is your brand

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3 Jan 2017 · BOS Thoughts

You are not a brand

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3 Jan 2017 · BOS Thoughts

Why Design matters to me

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