by lesley | Apr 28, 2009 | Website copy
Have ever watched someone waiting for a web page to download? Do they sit calmly or are their fingers tapping impatiently and a certain amount of muttering and sighing going on if it doesn’t snap onto the screen instantly? It’s amazing when you think that...
by lesley | Apr 27, 2009 | Marketing, Readability, Website copy
I love words – however, as George Bernard Shaw famously said ‘You must learn to murder your children’! Writing lots of lovely words about your company doesn’t work for the reader on the web. When someone has arrived at your website they are...
by lesley | Apr 24, 2009 | Marketing, Testimonials, Website copy
Testimonials are a great way to show your expertise off! A third party saying how good you are is so much better than saying it yourself. So it’s really good when someone gives you a testimonial that you can add to your marketing material and your web copy. Do...
by lesley | Apr 23, 2009 | Website copy
You are probably the worst person to write about your business! That applies to me too – even though I’m a professional copywriter. The problem is that we know too much – and we’re so enthusiastic about our businesses that we want to tell...
by lesley | Apr 22, 2009 | Press & Media, Website copy
I mentioned the words ‘current economic climate’ on Twitter recently and got a flurry of positive responses along the lines of ‘I refuse to participate in a recession’; ‘What recession?’; ‘I’m busier than ever,’...
by lesley | Apr 21, 2009 | Marketing, Website copy
In conversation yesterday with some friends the issue of ‘why have you got a website?’ came up. A number of answers were suggested: Because everyone should have one. As an online brochure. So there’s somewhere for people to go when they ask. To help...
by lesley | Apr 14, 2009 | Readability, Website copy
I’ve talked about headlines and how important they are – then the subject of subheaders came up. So what is a subheader? It’s not a byline – that’s the ‘by Joe Bloggs’ bit that tells you who wrote it. It’s not a...
by lesley | Apr 13, 2009 | Website copy
These days most of us don’t ‘cold call’ – it’s more ‘warm connections’. You meet people at networking events or through online profiles on a wide variety of sites and, when you need a service, you contact the people you have...
by lesley | Mar 31, 2009 | Social media
When creating a profile on an online social network, think about it as the equivalent of meeting someone for the first time at a networking event. What sort of things do you talk about and in what terms? Don’t turn people off with a sales pitch and don’t...
by lesley | Mar 20, 2009 | Website copy
Your About us page is not usually the first place people will look, but it is the place where they’ll check after they’ve decided you’ve got something they want. It’s where they ‘check you out’ – does your web copy tell them...
