• How To Write Your Home Page

      Nine times out of ten, your Home Page will be the page the majority of your visitors land on. That’s why it’s so important to get it right. Before I ramble on, what do you think it should show? Details about your business? What you do? Stuff that goes on about your innovative approach, […]

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  • What Your Home Page Should Say About You

      Your home page shouldn’t say anything about you. What? It should instead focus entirely on the benefits your customer will get if they buy from you. What it should do though is show them what you can do. Have I gone mad? Not yet. Show them what you do When someone lands on your […]

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  • How Dell Changed The Face Of The Call to Action

    If you don’t use a call to action in your marketing, it’s going to be as useful as a chocolate teapot. You might think that your customers are intelligent enough to know you want them to buy from you (or get in touch, sign up for your newsletter, etc.), but if you don’t tell them […]

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  • These Are The 4 Things Your Website Visitors Want

      What were your first thoughts when you were designing your website? Colours? Fonts? Gadgets and gizmos? Graphics and images? How cool should it look? Did your customers enter your thoughts at all during those initial stages? No? Ah, you could have a problem. Yes, yes, yes, I know your website should reflect your business, […]

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  • Your Content is Alienating Your Customers

      I’ve been in the copywriting game for quite a while now, and if there’s one thing I hate, it’s ‘in your face’ marketing content. You know the stuff I mean; all those websites and landing pages that are full of highlighted hype and insincere multi-coloured drivel that’s supposed to make you pull out your […]

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  • Stop Treating Content Like a Poor Cousin

      As a freelance copywriter something has become very plain to me. Over the years I’ve seen it happen time and time again. Without fail, every project follows the same pattern. Well it’s time things changed and I’m about to tell you why. It’s not all just about a pretty face Rebranding or redesigning your […]

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  • Why Web Copy Shouldn’t Be a One Hit Wonder

      Steve Brookstein, Sam Bailey, Sam and the Womp, Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP, 3 of a Kind, Rui Da Silva, MARRS… What do all of these have in common? They were all one hit wonders. They stormed into our lives (and the charts) promising great things, but after their initial hit nothing happened. They […]

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  • Website Content: What’s Important and What’s Not

      Believe it or not, your website is there to sell. In the past, when I’ve worked on website content projects, I have had clients say “we’re not to bothered about the website because we don’t sell through it.” Thankfully that’s not something I hear too much these days because most people now get that […]

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  • Copywriting – How to be Natural and Authentic

      This is longer than my usual stuff, so you might want to grab a coffee while you read. Recently, I was asked to talk at a local business event. The topic I chose was the human face of copywriting – how to be natural and authentic. Why? Mainly because of the tonnes of bad […]

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  • 10 Reasons Why People Don’t Trust Your Website

      Buying online, or finding a service supplier online can be fraught with danger. With no physical shop to go to, the consumer doesn’t get to meet you or your team and therefore has to take your website as gospel. Placing that much trust in a company is quite scary, which is why your website […]

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