by lesley | Jun 8, 2010 | Readability, Website copy
When you’ve gone to the trouble of getting a website set up,invested your money in it and probably gone through a certain amount of pain to create the web copy that goes on each page, you want people to stay on it and take action to either buy something or to...
by lesley | May 24, 2010 | Readability, Website copy
Web users are lazy and impatient – think of yourself when you’re waiting for a site to download that takes a few seconds longer than you expect! That means that web copy needs to get the message across FAST. The very first thing that your web visitor will...
by lesley | May 4, 2010 | Headlines, Newsletters, Testimonials
Usability is about how easy your site is for people to get around, find what they want, get from a to b with the least effort. Typical web users are lazy – and impatient! That means you and me too. I’m not trying to be insulting, but think about it: When...
by lesley | Apr 28, 2010 | Readability, Website copy
If you’ve ever arrived on a website that is a mass of boxes, messages and pictures you’ll know what I mean by the patchwork quilt effect! Websites like this have many things to offer the visitor and the website owner is anxious to show all their wares up...
by lesley | Apr 20, 2010 | Website copy
Most of us think of our online ‘presence’ as our website, but have you considered all the other places where web copy with your name and brand attached appears? How many social networking sites are you on? Does the web copy present you professionally? Do...
by lesley | Apr 16, 2010 | Marketing, Press & Media, Readability, Website copy
Having a website is only part of your online presence; and the copy on your website must engage the reader and keep them there – but what other copy should you be thinking about online? Blogs like this one are another way to engage potential customers, providing...
by lesley | Apr 9, 2010 | Readability, Website copy
Everyone seems to be obsessed with being ‘on the front page’ of Google, getting up the search engine rankings and getting hotshot AdWord specialists to increase the traffic to their website. Of course, getting traffic is important; it doesn’t matter...
by lesley | Mar 16, 2010 | Website copy
The biggest problem that people have with writing their own web copy is that we all know too much about our own businesses – and want to tell everyone all we know! That might be a bit of an exaggeration, but if you’ve ever tried writing web copy for...
by lesley | Jan 25, 2010 | Website copy
If you have a website you want people to arrive, get hooked and read as much as possible so that they get a feel for what you’ve got to offer – and you hit all their ‘hot buttons’. So how do you do that? Step one is to understand that people...
by lesley | Jan 8, 2010 | Headlines, Readability
Ted Nicholas (the guru of copywriting) says you should spend more time on your headline than on the rest of your copy, I’m not sure I totally agree, but it’s definitely the top of my list of things to get right! If your headline does its job properly it...
