Conversion copywriting is the argument your pages make. Not the adjectives and not the polish: the order the case is put in, what gets answered before the reader has to ask, and what the page tells someone to do next. Most owners arrive thinking copy means better sentences. Better sentences are the last five percent of this job.
The words that work are almost never invented at a desk. They come out of your sales calls, the reviews your customers already left, and the way you explain the job when nobody is writing it down. We read all of it, rewrite the pages carrying the most weight, and say plainly what can and cannot be measured afterward. What we never do is start from a blank page.
Is it really the words?
Before anyone rewrites anything, it is worth knowing whether the words are the problem at all. Three situations look identical from the owner's chair, and only one of them is ours.
If almost nobody is arriving, this is not your problem yet: that is SEO or paid ads, and rewriting words nobody reads changes nothing. If people arrive and leave within seconds, it is usually not the words either, but load speed, the first screen, and whether the page is legible on a phone, which is web design. If people arrive, stay long enough to read, and still do not call, that is the argument failing. That one is ours.
What does better copy actually change?
Here is the part nobody selling a redesign will mention: on the evidence, the words are doing more of the work than the design is. When Unbounce modelled 36,928 landing pages against their conversion rates in 2021, copy carried roughly twice the predictive weight of design, and it held across all sixteen industries tested.
And the direction those words should move is the opposite of most people's instinct. In Unbounce's 2024 benchmark report, drawn from 57 million conversions, pages written at a fifth to seventh grade reading level converted at 11.1 percent, against 5.3 percent for pages written at a professional level. That is their platform's paid traffic and your numbers will sit lower, but the gap is the finding.
It holds in a lab, too. A peer-reviewed 2006 study found that reaching for more complex vocabulary made readers judge the writer as less intelligent, not more. The instinct to sound impressive is the thing costing you the call.
THE LOCAL ANGLE
Gulf Coast buyers can smell corporate register at a hundred yards. "We call back the same day" outworks any sentence containing the word solutions, and so do the specifics: the neighborhoods you cover, the seasons you plan around, whether it is you showing up or somebody you sent. That is not local color, it is what a stranger uses to decide you are real.
What a copy engagement includes
How the work runs
Listen
Your sales calls, your reviews, and how you describe the job when nobody is writing it down. The line that converts is usually something you have already said out loud.
Rewrite
The argument first, then the order, then the sentences. You see the homepage before we touch anything else, because if that page is wrong the rest will be wrong the same way.
Measure honestly
Your before numbers get written down, so the comparison afterward is a comparison rather than a story. What your traffic can and cannot prove gets said at the start, not discovered later.
What copywriting is not, and what has to come first
Copy is the argument; design is the room it is argued in, and the repair differs. A page that says the wrong thing beautifully cannot be rescued by layout. A page that says the right thing and cannot be read on a phone is a web design problem, and page copy is written into those builds already rather than sold on top.
What comes first is positioning. That work settles what you mean: who you are for, what you promise, why you and not the next five. Copy settles how you say it so somebody acts. Rewriting the words before that is decided means writing them twice.
Downstream, SEO earns the visit and copy earns the action, which is why traffic without conversion copy is a bigger audience for the same silence. Lead magnets and funnels are built out of copy too, though the offer itself is theirs: we write what it says, not what it is.
What does conversion copywriting cost?
A full rewrite of a typical five-page site starts around $1,900, and the homepage on its own around $750. Typical starting points: the number moves in both directions with the site and the research behind it.
- Who it isn't for
- If almost nobody is visiting yet, this is not your problem and we will say so rather than take the work. If you cannot yet say who you are for and why you rather than the next one, positioning comes first. And if you would rather not sit for the interview or hand over reviews and call notes, we would be guessing, which is the wordsmithing this page argues against.
- What you own
- You keep the words, the research behind them, and the message hierarchy they were built on, as files that are yours. No retainer is attached and nothing depends on us staying. If we never work together again, the copy carries on working.
- How long it takes
- Two to three weeks from the interview to delivered copy on a typical five-page site, longer when the raw material has to be gathered first.
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Book a Friendly CallGOOD QUESTIONS
Will it still sound like me?
It will sound like you on your best day, because it is built from recordings and interviews rather than a template. That is also the honest limit: nobody writes in a voice they have never heard. If a line would feel wrong coming out of your mouth on the phone, it does not ship.
Do I need new copy, or a new website?
Ask what the site is actually failing at. Slow, awkward on a phone, or impossible for you to edit is a build problem, and belongs with web design. Looks fine and nobody acts is the argument, and a rebuild will reproduce the same words in a nicer frame. Rebuilding costs more, so rule out the cheaper answer first. If we are building the site anyway, the page copy is written into that build rather than bought separately.
How do we know it worked?
Honestly, and that word is doing real work here. We write down what your pages did before, change them, and compare, and the numbers that count are the ones you were already counting: calls, form submissions, booked jobs. What we will not do is hand you a figure and call it proof. Some of what you see afterward will be evidence and some will only be encouraging, and you get told which is which.
We hired a copywriter before and nothing changed. Why would this be different?
Usually one of three reasons, and none is that the writer was bad. Either the words were never the problem and the traffic was, or the positioning underneath was never settled so every draft argued something slightly different, or the copy came from a questionnaire instead of from your customers. The first we diagnose before quoting. The second we send you upstream to fix. The third is why we start with your reviews and your sales calls.
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