by lesley | Oct 8, 2012 | Writing Skills
When you are writing to promote your services it can be as big a mountain to climb as writing a novel if you don’t know where to start. Many people can’t get started, some start to write and then delete their efforts – several times (the equivalent...
by lesley | Oct 7, 2011 | Marketing, Uncategorized, Website copy
Anyone who has ever written a page, a blog or an article with the search engines in mind will know that, these days, stuffing your content with keywords is more likely to get your site or item ranked down, rather than up. Today ‘relevant content’ is king....
by lesley | Feb 14, 2011 | Blogging
If you just ramble about a variety of subjects on a business blog, people will get confused and lose interest. Have a clear purpose for your blog; is it chat, opinion, raising profile, keyword focused? An easy way to create content for people who struggle to write is...
by lesley | May 24, 2010 | Readability, Website copy
Web users are lazy and impatient – think of yourself when you’re waiting for a site to download that takes a few seconds longer than you expect! That means that web copy needs to get the message across FAST. The very first thing that your web visitor will...
by lesley | May 20, 2009 | Readability, Website copy
When you launch your shiny new website do you test it to find out if it works for the reader? Ask a selection of customers, suppliers and associates to test it out for you and give you feedback. Ask them to: Understand the site’s purpose. Find the main product...