#154 40 Pro Tips for writing great microcopy, What the UK Govt is doing for startups & Improving speed to drive conversions
I’m super gassed because this week I am launching our new Solar Panel offering to a small set of customers. It’s an experiment we have made based on some business assumptions and I’m anxious to see how we do.
I also spent a bit of time, iterating on the design of the eBook.
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The UK Govt has made £250M available for companies that would typically get rely on Equity investment and are affected by COVID-19. As part of that, YSYS and offer communities wrote an open letter and they responded with an Action Plan for D&I. 🤔You need to have raised an equal amount of funding from private investors and £250K in the past.
You can learn more about how to apply here
40 Pro Tips for writing great microcopy 👇
⚡40 pro tips for writing great microcopy
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Even though I spoke about how to drive conversions recently, one thing that’s also important to consider is load speed. This has a big impact on conversions you can use Minify your code and call functions in Javascript only when they need to be run.
Other tips are:
Caching
Optimizing images to be under 1MB
One tool to check your speed is Pingdom
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