It's easy to give up on website. It can be frustrating. You get an idea. You make a change. But the results stay the same.

I’ve been there. More than once ..

But how can you “really” know if you're doing it right?

Is it your offer? The copy? The call to action? The design?

First think about this ..

What is it that your website is actually buying?

I’ll tell you ..

Time!

Right now, you might well be thinking that your website has bought way more of your own time — with way less results — than you care to think about.

I get you.

But before you pull the plug, focus on what I’m teaching you.

The sole purpose of your business (and your website) is to buy more time with more of the right people.

And it's important for 2 key reasons ..

It shows us how much time your potential customers are willing to sacrifice in order to give you the chance to make the sale.

And this Dwell Time is also an important Google ranking signal, that is, the amount of time that a Google searcher spends on a page from the search results before returning back.

So if you want to increase your website traffic and with it make more sales ..

Time matters!

Because if you win the strategy of time, customer commitment to your services will surely follow.

1. If you publish regularly on your blog or social media — it's the best strategy where ALL your time and effort becomes the most profitable …
2. If you pay for advertising — it's the most important part of the equation to ensure you get your investment back to build your brand bigger and faster than ever.
3. If you struggle to compete in a crowded market — it's the one secret method that puts clear blue ocean between you and your competitors.

But how do you do it?

Using what I call An Artful Science®

Building a website (+ direct response marketing system) where the design and the content blend together in a uniquely engaging and authoritative way ..

Brian Tracy (author of Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires) once said: “Every minute you spend in planning saves ten minutes in execution; this gives you a 1000% return on energy!”

SO you're in luck.

If you're about to invest time, money and energy on your website — planning for that 1,000% return is what I specialise in ..

Dr Lynda Ince-Greenaway

Just the title of Stephen’s business name gave me confidence to trust him in designing my new website. I can honestly say that over the time we worked together, he was always available and made positive and helpful suggestions.

He gave sound advice, copywriting tips and hints on how to turn more browsers into buyers which I found extremely helpful.

And I just love his creativity, spirit of adventure and how he put his heart and soul into what he created. The warm colours and font are inviting reflecting both my personality and my coaching business.

Having asked my friends to visit my new website I have had great feedback.

And it’s all down to Stephen, his knowledge, skills and how he applied science to make my website fit for purpose.

He is so good at his craft! Dr Lynda Ince-Greenaway.
Leadership Coach and Author of “The Hard Truth”

Mark Howarth

Stephen has provided a service of the highest standard.

I’ve worked with designers, web developers and sales funnel experts for many years and it’s rare that someone possesses all three of the skills needed in equal measure.

Stephen is an expert in each area.

He has completed four projects so far — all of which have been on time, to budget and representing brilliant value for money — showing a high level of care and dedication.

Stephen continues to work with me now on a number of clients.

It’s rare I write a reference this glowing but I wholly recommend him without any reservation! Mark Howarth.
Founder & Director, MCH London

Andrew Bullock

Stephen built our website from the start and, frankly speaking, the relationship has grown since then. He has an affable manner and explains some of the workings to less technical customers like us in a straightforward way.

In the beginning, we thought we knew what we wanted but after a number of discussions Stephen pointed us in a much better direction.

We are very pleased with the quality of the work.

A real plus for us is that when we want something changed, or need some advice, we can either email him or, as I prefer, call him.

We always get a prompt response! Andrew Bullock.
Founder, CROMA

Zsuzsanna Pataki

I had sweated over my sales page for weeks on end, not knowing how to make it work.

I kept at it until it grew into a novel: (you know the one), the kind that makes people click away, confused, fast. — Quite the opposite of what I intended it to actually do .. (Sell)

Stephen had a quick read and boiled down my wordy monster into a sales page that actually worked as a conversion page.

Mystery solved :)

Clients can now quickly see the benefits of what I offer, the value that I bring, and know exactly how to get started.

And what a formula! — I can’t believe it took me so long to ask him. — I feel like a boulder has just been rolled off me, and so relieved to get back to the work I love.

I whole heartily recommend Stephen Shaw to anyone who struggles in this crazy online world, especially when it comes to presenting their offers in a way that reads well, looks right, but more importantly, SELLS!

If you're reading this on his website, don’t just click that button, call and ask him.

Your struggle is over. Zsuzsanna Pataki
Portrait Artist

The number one thing your customer wants in making a purchase is to make sure they’re making the right purchase decision.

So don’t follow, lead.

Most of your customers will look at you, and your competitors together, then ask:

1. Who is the real innovator and leader here?
2. Who is going to keep pace with change and adapt to meet my needs now and tomorrow?

If that’s you, great!

But if not — and be honest — you'll need to put a Signature Marketing Solution™ in place that will put clear blue ocean between you and your competitors.

But how do you do it?

Step 1:

Give me 20 minutes of your time and I'll give you 20 years of mine.

Using the booking form schedule a time to talk.

We’ll discuss a handful of marketing strategies to get you more sales and reach that end destination where you’ll feel successful with your progress.

Step 2:

Mapping out the end-to-end customer journey from gaining awareness of your brand, to receiving a "thank you for your purchase”.

Once we've figured out exactly who you want. Then we’ll dig deep into what THEY “really” want.

I’ll then provide you with a Signature Marketing Solution™ that makes them want it from YOU.

Step 3:

Taking an uncut raw diamond and turning it into a glittering jewel.

Finally, we’ll create all the digital assets you’ll ever need specifically tailor made to build your brand and grow your business.

Most people get this all wrong, which is why you and I have such a huge opportunity.

They spend all their time trying to look cool, or trying to look like everyone else, or focusing on dumb stuff that simply gets attention but doesn’t sell.

You’ll do the opposite because in Step 1 we’ll reverse engineer the psychology, needs, and desires of your market … and then we’ll focus on the messaging that actually makes them want to buy from you.

You'll know what to write on your website, emails, and ads in order to get the highest return on your time and effort.

Here’s who I’m looking for:

Coaches, consultants and industry specialists making some sales — but just not enough sales.

Who this is not for:

Start-ups or anyone not serious about investing to grow their business.

Requirements:

1 You must be prepared to invest in your marketing.

At a minimum you will need to cover a few 3rd party subscriptions like email automation or faster website hosting.

2 You must be willing to put in some work.

I will be providing my creative services, marketing blueprints, copy guidance and 20 years worth of experience, but you’ll need to use your own specialist knowledge.

If you need a hand defining your line up of offer(s) we can discuss this on the call.

3 You must have worked in your industry for at least 2 years and have a good reputation.

That’s it!

If you’ve got these 3 magic things, we just need to talk.

Because let's face it, neither one of us will really know the best way forward unless we talk and get to know each other.

So if you're either:

1. Living in "second-guessing" mode — never knowing what will REALLY move the needle.
2. Holding back because you don’t know how to deliver the most impact to get the highest return on your time and effort.
3. Not knowing how to plan something that's sharable, clickable, rankable and knocks your potential customers off their feet ..

Let me help you change all that with a revolutionary new battle plan that actually works.

Yours for those blockbuster breakthroughs,

Stephen
Founder of An Artful Science®
Author of Making Your Marketing Truly Valuable™

Jon Blakeney

Stephen has helped us for the last five years and has been responsible for transforming our web based sales. His knowledge of web design and digital marketing has proved invaluable and I would have no hesitation in recommending him.Jon Blakeney.
Co Owner, I-AM

Michael Baker

Just a quick note of thanks for all the hard work you have put in over the past couple of months. It is certainly a big undertaking to create a website from scratch and also to effectively re-brand the look etc. The final version looks fantastic!Michael Baker.
Operations Manager, Croma

Jamie Sparks

I love it! — I am really, really happy with it. — You've done a class job. Thanks so much Stephen.Jamie Sparks.
Founder, Ultra X

Arthur Rimbaud (the prodigiously talented, visionary poet who went on to become a lonely gun runner) once said:

One must be absolutely modern’ (il faut être absolument modern).

As a poet, his point was that knowing all the artistic rules that made past greats stand out as past greats wasn’t enough:

If you wanted to be a great yourself, you had to reinvent what constituted future greatness.

Instead of doing another thing, a similar thing, even the same thing with an ironic twist of lemon, you had to do the next new thing.

This was Rimbaud’s bold and brazen challenge to the stuck-in-the-mud, this-is-how-it’s-supposed-to-be artistic community he bowled over with his sheer talent.

And it’s not a bad challenge for any brand (who uses web designers to sell their story to the world) to take very seriously indeed.

After all, if you or your brand is not seen by your clients as:

1. The new thing.
2. The next thing.
3. The modern thing.
4. The disruptive thing.
5. The thing that changes every thing.

Some shiny Rimbaudesque thing out there will be.

And that shiny Rimbaudesque thing will make you look very dated, very fast.

By now you must be wanting a little adaptive, website newness creating power for yourself?

Ever wondered what makes the Mona Lisa so enigmatic?

Why we are so in awe at the magisterial splendour of a Spiral Galaxy?

Or why — even after all these years — ancient buildings like the Parthenon are so pleasing to behold?

Yes, such wonders are wonderful because of their sheer scale, because we can appreciate the skill — the rare (human or cosmic) genius — that has gone into their creation.

But wonders aren’t wonderful by chance (unless God really does play dice).

You see, creators of the sublime have a trick up its sleeve, a trick that you might say put the smile on Mona Lisa’s face.

And that trick takes the form of a magic number.

And no, it's not 3.

This number — also known as the Golden Section, Golden Mean, Divine Proportion, and the Golden Ratio — is ..

1.618 φ

And this number makes magic in our world just as much as it does in the animal world too ..

Take honeybees.

Divide the number of female bees by the number of male bees in any given hive, you will get 1.618.

Or Sunflowers.

Sunflowers, which have opposing spirals of seeds, have a 1.618 ratio between the diameters of each rotation.

Consciously or not, the birds bees and sunflowers of our world use the same cunning trick to thrive as da Vinci uses to create art.

And our brains are hard-wired to find this organic proportionality irresistible ..

So I’ve spent months of painstaking work crafting a cutting-edge new website blueprint called Typography-First™.

It’s a Starter Website, where the concepts like the Golden Ratio, have already been coded INTO ANY layout configuration possible.

And just enough of the key Typography ingredients baked in, as not to impede your new design, but just to beautify it.

It includes a colour guide, where you can choose from perfectly aligned colour combinations, to define the ultimate mood of your site.

AND a typography guide. 30 ideally matched Screen Optimised Fonts — to better attract your customers and connect them with what you do.

1. It’s progressive to fit on EVERY possible device, (from the smallest phone all the way up to the latest 8k TV).



2. And it downloads in less than a second ..

So you can benefit from the beauty of The Divine Proportion φ — without having to invest a fortune to pay for it ..

Think of the first time you saw Citizen Kane. 2001: A Space Odyssey or Badlands.

Why did these movies change you and cinema?

Is it because the filmmakers — Welles, Kubrick and Malick respectively — were or still are supremely talented, highly creative artists?

No

It was because each and one of them knew the golden rules of cinema so well that they could allow their art to bend the rules just enough to move us and the profession into new territory.

In other words, only by knowing the rules could they rewrite them. And by rewriting the rules, their work stands head and shoulders above the competition.

I believe that great digital marketers — like all artists — pull off the same rule rewriting trick.

With a deep understanding of all the essential component parts — the content (dialogue), the brand (the actors), and the clients (the audience) — great digital marketers deliver a knockout Rocky-esque digital marketing experience.

One that keeps bums on seats long enough for their clients to tell their story from start to finish.