This is part 3 of an 8 part series on how to improve the conversion rate of your website using a new testing approach to web design, rather than the old way of guesswork and assumptions In my previous post, I showed you how to use Google Analytics to identify which pages are losing you […]
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Improving Website Conversion 2 – How to identify the leaks that are costing you sales
This is part 2 of an 8 part series on how to improve the conversion rate of your website using a new testing approach to web design, rather than the old way of guesswork and assumptions The old approach to web design was a bit knee jerk. If your website wasn’t performing as well as […]
How to create wireframes of new pages which are more persuasive, believable and user-friendly
This is part 7 of an 8 part series on how to improve the conversion rate of your website using a new testing approach to web design, rather than the old way of guesswork and assumptions. All the testing, market research and analysis work you’ve done so far should have given you some ideas on […]
Improving Website Conversion 1 – Why Test?
This is the first in a series of posts on improving a website’s conversion rate. Over the coming weeks I’ll be explaining how you can identify the reasons why your website isn’t converting and then how you can make measurable improvements. I’ll be covering a range of tools and tactics for making your website more […]
A Review of Convert! – The Book that Launched My Tested Copywriting Future
Any fans of Drayton Bird, Caples or Hopkins will know about the importance of testing your copywriting. Direct marketers have been testing the impact of headlines, images and body copy on response rates for decades. So why does the digital world lag so far behind? We now have the tools to test what effect every […]
The Truth about SEO Copywriting – It’s about Customers, Not Keywords
There are few professions that can compete with the air of mystery that surrounds SEO. In fact, David Copperfield could learn a thing or two about misdirection and creating mystique from a chat with an SEO consultant. But things are changing. Google’s algorithm is getting ever more sophisticated, and the attempts to game it ever […]
Furniture Copywriting
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] Furniture Copywriting for Luxury, Commercial and Industrial Advertising Previous furniture copywriting projects include a hardwood carpentry workshop, a high end metal garden furniture distributor, an eco furniture designer and a Scandinavian manufacturer of ESD workbenches Whether you’re selling luxury vintage armchairs or small component cabinets, every item of furniture has its own […]
Should B2B copywriters use long form sales letters on corporate websites?
Ah, the long form sales letter. Such a bone of contention among copywriters. Many will deride their length, saying nobody has the patience to read pages of copy these days, whilst direct marketing copywriters, who test avidly, will tell you otherwise. When discussing long form copy, many people will picture those get rich quick schemes […]
Ahhhhh!! My blog has been hacked!!!!! How to avoid this happening to you
I’d always believed that, much like email scams and credit card fraud, having your website hacked is the sort of thing that happens to other people, but never to you. After all, I’d never be so foolish as to allow tricksters to get the better of me! Unfortunately, I fell foul of this fallacy last Friday. […]
Which Marketing Channel is the Most Trusted? Our Survey Says…
Getting people to trust you has always been a cornerstone of effective copywriting. It’s a simple principle: if people believe what you say, they’re more likely to buy. A key factor in building trust, that’s often ignored, is the channel you use. An advertorial, for example, in a well respected broadsheet is likely to have […]