It would be easy to dive right in and begin talking about how to write for the web—things like keep copy concise and scannable, use bulletpoints, and other pieces of “conventional” wisdom that many of us have heard before. But first, shouldn’t we understand how users read on the web? According to Jakob Nielsen: “On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely.”
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“The economy” seems to be all we hear about anymore—and the constant repetition of bad news doesn’t just make people panic, it makes companies panic too. They begin looking for ways to cut back, and typically one of the first cuts they tend to make is to the marketing budget. And so begins a vicious cycle: the marketing budget gets cut so sales drop, as sales drop the marketing budget gets cut even further, and I think you can see where this can lead.
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