About Page Copywriting Tips. It’s Not About You, it’s About the Customer

Have you checked your website’s stats recently? If so, you might have noticed that one of the most popular pages is the humble ‘About’ page. Why? Because visitors want to know who’s pulling the levers behind the curtain. They want to know why they should believe the slick sales pitch on the home page, and whether […]

Small Hinges Swing Big Doors – 10 Small Actions for Big Improvements to Conversions

When a campaign withers, plummets and bombs, the temptation can be to write it off as a dud. But sometimes it’s worth sifting through the debris. Sometimes all that’s needed is minor tinkering to turn a spluttering campaign into a rocketship. A phrase in direct marketing is ‘tiny hinges swing big doors’. Putting the metaphors […]

How to Update Your PR Strategy to Stop Publishing into the Digital Vacuum But Instead Generate Real Results for Your Clients

PR used to be a lonely soul. It would perform tasks in isolation, diligently writing back slapping press releases to keep the boardroom happy. But times have changed. PR has since been brought in from the cold to work shoulder to shoulder with the rest of the marketing crew. Social media and modern content creation […]

Planetpro

  Planetpro is a staffing solutions provider specialising in contractors for sales and marketing roles in hi-tech industries. It wanted to create a new website and brochure to update its branding and to reflect its modern, forward thinking approach to contractor recruitment: [custom_list style=”list-2″] The website copy needed to be punchy and concise, while also […]

Improving Website Conversion 6 – 9 Tried and Tested Changes that will Have a Big Impact on improving Your Website’s Conversion Rate

This is part 6 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.  By now you’ve identified your website’s leaks, gained insights from your customers, assessed how you can differentiate yourself from […]

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 […]

Does Your Website’s Copywriting Make These Mistakes?

As you know, there’s an abundance of horribly written corporate websites out there – with too much back slapping self praise and not enough focus on the customer. For us copywriters, this presents an opportunity: if you can point out to a company why their website’s copy is ineffective, they might ask you to give it a makeover. Many companies complain about how poor their websites are at […]

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