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Ideas

The first screen review.

Buyers give an unknown company a few seconds and two screens. Send one page, and we read those two screens the way a buyer does, score them, and send back what to fix first.

The eight checks

What a buyer decides in the first two screens.

Every check comes from the way buyers read, and every one gets a pass or a fix.

01What you sell

Can a stranger name what you sell from the headline alone?

02Who it is for

Is the buyer named on the first screen, so the right person knows it is for them?

03The outcome

Does the headline lead with what changes for the buyer, or with the product?

04Specific words

Could a competitor paste your headline onto their site unchanged?

05The alternative

Does the page say why you, over a spreadsheet, the status quo, or the name they already know?

06Proof

Is there a number, a logo or a named quote in the first two screens, and does it hold up?

07The next step

Is there one clear next step, worded as the next step of the headline's promise?

08Show the thing

Does the visual show the product or the result, and does it read at phone width?

How it works
01Send one page

Your homepage or one landing page, one line on who the buyer is, and the two alternatives they would otherwise pick.

02We read it as a buyer would

The first two screens, scored against the eight checks, with one line quoted from your page for each.

03Get the review by email

The scorecard, the weakest check first, one rewritten first screen (headline, line under it, next step), and one line on what the review left out.

Your turn

Send the page.

Email the address of the page, who buys from you, and the two alternatives they would otherwise choose.

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