022: How To Choose A Website Template
ILY, Flo Pugh
If you give a mouse a cookie, she's gonna ask for a glass of milk.
And if you give her a glass of milk, she's gonna grab a blanket and enter Couch Gremlin mode.
And as she's flipping through her viewing options, of f*cking course she's gonna pick the latest Florence Pugh.
And you know what the hell else that mouse is gonna do??
Go give herself curtain bangs in the bathroom right after watching it because the hair perfection of this movie is unreal.
Butttt unfortunately, the mouse doesn't look like Florence Pugh. ☹️
The mouse isn't married to Harry Styles in real life or her subconscious. ☹️☹️☹️
And the mouse really, really could not handle curtain bangs -
Because even after the mouse's favorite hair girl helped fix them, the mouse still had little mouse pups (no really, I Googled it) to care for.
The mouse did not have the damn time to blow out her little mouse bangs every morning (and couldn't ever get them right, anyway).
The mouse ended up begrudgingly clipping her sad little mouse bangs back for every workout and constantly regretting that she made a split second decision to choose form over function that she had to live with for a long ass time.
The mouse girl wants you to make a better choice than her.
How To Choose A Sexy Website Template That's Actually Functional
I'm gonna hold your hand when I say this:
Even if you start with a website template, you still have work to do on your website.
Specifically, you'll need to:
Adjust any colors & fonts you want to customize
Add your own images
Write and add your own copy (or I know a girl who'd love to do it for you)
Connect your domain
Add analytics (if ur a data girl, which I highly recommend)
(and a little more, ofc but let's stop before I stress you out)
Unfortunately, I'm here to tell you that the above list ^^^ is longer if your template was designed to be pretty, but with no regard for its function. (I cannot ☹️ enough)
Aaaaand is it just me, First name / friend - or is the entire point of starting with a website template to keep your to-do list as short as humanly possible?
So if I were you… I'd stop by this blog post to learn how to make sure that happens.
Reasons I'm Blushing
If you want to learn about your differentiator, your secret sauce in business, or the exact language you should use to market your offer…
You need to copy/paste the words straight outta your favorite clients' mouths.
So, if we're following that rule (we are), I'm the person you go to when…
The services you offer keep growing, and you don't really know how to talk about each one (or help clients choose between them)
You're good at doing the thing, but not selling the thing
You can't get your damn website to sound like you
You can't get your damn website to get clients to book
You're feeling guilty that you can't get your website copy to sound right despite being decent at writing and not hating it, so you could really just use someone to come do it for you please???
And of course, I'd love to be that person for you, too - and I'm currently finalizing my spring projects (through May!), so… come on in, the water (and the SEO) (and conversions) is fine. 🌊🌊🌊