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...
by lesley | Jul 21, 2009 | Website copy
If you are the company owner you’re probably the worst person to write your website copy – you simply know too much! Most of us are so passionate about what we do (or why are you doing it?) that we want to tell our readers EVERYTHING. The trouble is that...
by lesley | Jul 2, 2009 | Marketing, Readability, Website copy
I make no apologies for revisiting this subject – it’s important! I keep visiting websites that start their home page with ‘We are … a family company/expert carpet fitters/a long established company/dedicated to our customers/etc. etc....
