Looking for feedback , roast my site - Dara. vc

My first impression is that the logo looks pixelated. Which is not a great look.

The pitch is fairly clear, although I'm bothered why you say "Venture capital– for free." It should include one more space, "Venture capital – for free."

I also don't know what M&As are. The thing about abbreviations or acronyms are that you need to be very careful with them. For example in this case, if the use doesn't know what this thing means, they will feel like this is not for them. You don't really want that.

The "Our readers are from" section looks visually a bit cheap. I don't know what is it exactly but it doesn't look as good as the rest of the site.

I'm a bit on the fence about the blog section. If I see free content that I can just read like this, why should I subscribe? Also, your blog posts are from 2022. That implies this website is dead, and as such, why should I subscribe?

Having the "See All Posts" button in gray implies it cannot be clicked. Also, it makes no sense that the second "Show more posts" button looks entirely different. Choose one button style and stick with it. (The second style is way better).

Instead of these rather generic sounding blog posts, why not show your last newsletter content? It's hard to sell people something they cannot see or try out first - even if what you sell is a free newsletter. Showing them one or few previous newsletters would show them what kind of good quality content they are now missing out on if they don't subscribe.

I would personally prefer to see some kind of privacy policy summary under the newsletter signup box CTA. "We won't share your email address with anyone. Unsubscibe at any time" or something like that.

Overall, I think this is pretty good, but with a few tweaks, it could be a lot better, too.

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Have you thought about branding Dara with a defined voice as a content media platform. You can create short-form video on TikTok to drive more customers to your subscribed newsletter.

VideoCopy

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3 years ago
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My first impression is that the logo looks pixelated. Which is not a great look.

The pitch is fairly clear, although I'm bothered why you say "Venture capital– for free." It should include one more space, "Venture capital – for free."

I also don't know what M&As are. The thing about abbreviations or acronyms are that you need to be very careful with them. For example in this case, if the use doesn't know what this thing means, they will feel like this is not for them. You don't really want that.

The "Our readers are from" section looks visually a bit cheap. I don't know what is it exactly but it doesn't look as good as the rest of the site.

I'm a bit on the fence about the blog section. If I see free content that I can just read like this, why should I subscribe? Also, your blog posts are from 2022. That implies this website is dead, and as such, why should I subscribe?

Having the "See All Posts" button in gray implies it cannot be clicked. Also, it makes no sense that the second "Show more posts" button looks entirely different. Choose one button style and stick with it. (The second style is way better).

Instead of these rather generic sounding blog posts, why not show your last newsletter content? It's hard to sell people something they cannot see or try out first - even if what you sell is a free newsletter. Showing them one or few previous newsletters would show them what kind of good quality content they are now missing out on if they don't subscribe.

I would personally prefer to see some kind of privacy policy summary under the newsletter signup box CTA. "We won't share your email address with anyone. Unsubscibe at any time" or something like that.

Overall, I think this is pretty good, but with a few tweaks, it could be a lot better, too.

jv16

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3 years ago
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