Haunted houses aren’t just for Halloween. They populate the web, too: that is, the unpublished white space of the web, in the form of website projects that get kicked off, then stall, sputter, and die.
Website and graphic designer friend Sharon Schanzer first told us about the internet’s haunted houses:
“Many times, the hold-up for my projects is copy,” she says. “It might be a brochure, a website, a PowerPoint, whatever. Without copy, I can’t really do any real design work. Projects sit around, haunting people’s intentions and their resolve.”
When your website team knows what it’s doing, the finished site will grab your customers by the collar, and tug them firmly toward a sale. Every day that a business fails to launch its website is a day without this effective conversion machine. And the longer you or your staff flail around trying to capture your essence in copy, the more of a chore it becomes. If you’re trying and failing to write your site yourself, then our advice is to stop, shop, and BYOC (bring your own copywriter). Once that happens:
- Your designer will tailor everything (website navigation, page design, user interface) to your copy, and vice versa.
- You can focus your energy elsewhere.
- You’ll launch your website or marketing collateral the minute you need to (now).
Don’t let your big, beautiful website project fall into crumbling mansion-style disrepair. Don’t fill it with ghostly “lorem ipsums,” gathering mental cobwebs, opening its door to no one, and waiting for the launch date that never comes. Instead, hire us—we’ll air out the stuffy rooms, and bring in the kind of foot traffic that means business.
