by lesley | May 1, 2009 | Readability, Website copy
If you’ve got visitors to your website you want to keep them! This is all about readability. Reduce your bounce rates and improve retention by paying attention to these five things: 1. Put the headline in the right place – it needs to be in prime real...
by lesley | Apr 30, 2009 | Readability, Website copy
I was lucky to work for a client of some of the top advertising agencies back in the 1980’s – I learned from some of the best people in the advertising business how capital letters work. The secret is that most of the time they actually STOP people...
by lesley | Feb 18, 2009 | Readability, Website copy
There are probably thousands of websites – probably tens of thousands – offering similar services or products to yours – all with web copy written in the hope of attracting new business. Whether or not you have competitors you probably think that...
by lesley | Feb 8, 2009 | Readability, Website copy
If you don’t know you have a problem it’s impossible to fix it! However, that’s the situation that most website owners (and many web designers) are in. What am I talking about? Well there are two things that you need to know about web copy: What...
by lesley | Jan 27, 2009 | Website copy
I’ve been looking at web copy that is intended to persuade and it seems that when you want action you have to use sentences with power. For instance, do you say: ‘If you’d like to improve your skills you’ll find this programme will help you to...
