The 7 magic methods of persuasion

The 7 magic methods of persuasion

1. If you want your reader to feel your words are for them, use ‘you’ and ‘your’ – not ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’. Most people are not interested in what you do, only in what they get. 2. Know what your...
The 7 magic methods of persuasion

7 things that stop people reading your website

In order to know how to get people to read what you have to say, you need to know what gets in the way of them getting your message. This is usually a combination of usability issues and readability issues. These are a few of the readability challenges that prevent...
The 7 magic methods of persuasion

13 reasons why people stop reading your website

If you’ve invested lots of time and money in creating a website and promoting yourself online, it could all be a bit pointless if people arrive on your site and then don’t stay long enough to get your message. These are a selection of things that stop...
The 7 magic methods of persuasion

7 things you should know about headlines!

I’ve been banging on about headlines a lot lately – so I might as well continue the trend here! Most people think a headline is something found in a newspaper or magazine – but headlines should be on every written communication you create. That...
The 7 magic methods of persuasion

Get your web copy to keep people reading

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...