Your homepage headline is a mirror
Most headlines are the company describing itself to itself. There's a ten-second test that catches it, and it stings a little.
Strategy
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Brand guidelines nobody follows
Eighty-eight beautiful pages, opened approximately never. Guidelines fail when they're written as law instead of built as tools.
The case study you can’t publish
Our best work is behind glass. What that costs a portfolio, and what it teaches about how trust actually gets built.
Price is a story
A number tells a story before anyone reads a word of the proposal. Most firms let fear write it.
Nobody wants your newsletter (yet)
Before you optimize the popup, ask the harder question. Would anyone miss the thing you're asking them to subscribe to?
Your competitors are not your compass
The side-by-side audit feels like rigor. It's how categories turn into a fleet of ships copying each other's heading.
Forms of proof
Social proof has a hierarchy, and most brands camp out at the bottom of it. A field guide to evidence that doesn't…
Branding is repetition with conviction
Your team is sick of the tagline right about the time the market is hearing it for the first time. That gap…
The anatomy of a good CTA
Button copy is the shortest writing assignment in the business and the most skipped. A dissection, in four parts.
Write like you talk, edit like you don’t
Draft with your speaking voice for honesty. Edit with a stranger's eye for precision. Copy fails when one brain tries to do…
A logo can’t save you
The mark is the smallest part of the system. Everything people actually remember about you is behavior.
“Target audience: everyone” means no one
Breadth feels safe and reads as static. Here's how to narrow the aim without shrinking the ambition.