About once a month I fly off somewhere to give a one-day workshop on writing for the web.
For part of the day, I invite the group to take part in a series of short tasks. In one of these I ask people to write or rewrite a web page headline, using words of two syllables or less.
Here's a fundamental difference between copywriting offline and copywriting for the web. ..
- Give or take, my job as a copywriter offline was to sell, sell, sell, sell.
- Online, I think, my job is best described as help, help, help, sell.