If you’re one of those unicorn people; if the stuff you do is more intuitive than intellectual; if people have to experience what you do on a visceral level in order to “get it”… listen up.
No website or marketing copy can do a better job than you interacting with your potential clients so they can experience the magic.
I love words and I truly believe in its power. But I’m also a yogi, runner, and cyclist. I know there are just things you have to “get it”, feel it, and experience it in the body… instead of intellectualizing it.
If you refuse to launch until you have the “perfect” website copy to communicate every single aspect of what you really do, you’ll likely be stuck forever.
Here’s the deal. Your website copy doesn’t need to be perfect… it doesn’t have to express every facet of your magic.
What you need is an aligned intention so you can put the right energy behind your words. I’ve read (or more like, study and dissect) enough sales page to realize that when I’m looking to work with or buy from someone, I don’t read the words on the page anymore.
I feel the energy. Within less than a minute, I know if that product or service is right for me. More often than not, people get too hung up on the superficial expression of words and forget about how they are weaved together to communicate a big picture of who you are.
Loosen up.
Don’t ask your website to do all the heavy lifting. Instead, just a couple of things:
(1) Tell visitors enough about you so they’ll trust you. Be honest. Create emotional connection and resonance to make them feel comfortable around you. Tell your story in a meaningful way. Express your values, convictions, and unique perspective. Show your true colors. Get the right people in the door.
(2) Tell visitors enough about what you do and how you solve their problems in a way that their left brain can understand. Enough so they’ll contact you to inquire about the next step. Enough to get them to interact with you in person so you can deliver your magic.
That’s it! Be honest, stand for something, show some guts. Get them to talk to you.
The good news is, you don’t need anything fancy to do that.
It boils down to a very simple website structure: a homepage (that tells visitors what action you want them to take within 8 seconds – that’s our average Internet attention span, just 1 second shorter than that of a goldfish,) an about page, and a work with me page. Then you add a contact page and maybe a blog. KISS.
When you get these three pages right, you have a solid foundation for all your content and communications.
If working your magic 1:1 is how you get the best conversion in selling some $X,000 package, why would you spend time, energy, and money on convoluted …