Sure, "everyone's a critic" (and sorry to join the crowd), but if you're going to promote yourself as a professional copywriter you should at least have a grasp of the basics.
So I imagine she may well be able to help people who struggle with that. Which in my experience is almost everyone in business.
When a copy writer is offering a service with bad copy, it casts into doubt their ability to write or edit copy.
I ran this sentence from the article through google docs:
>There was overwhelm of not knowing how to start a website, what pages to include, and what those pages should even be doing.
Google docs correctly picked up the error, and made the correct suggestion. I expect that a copy editor will NEVER turn in copy that has not been run through a basic automated check.
Otherwise, realize that this is your target market giving you very direct feedback.
Edit: I love that you are responding and open to feedback. But, again, the mistakes that people are mentioning are not trivial, nitpicks, or a matter of opinion. You are the only person that search can find who has ever used the phrase “there was overwhelm of”…
Also, here's an interesting post from the Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/overwhelming-overwhelm-w.... The author acknowledges that the word "overwhelm" has been used as a noun since the 1500s.
It may not be everyone's cup of tea. But it doesn't need to be.
So there are two truths here. Yours and mine, which can happily coexist :)
You corrected kahunas to cojones, and cleaned up the copy around nouning overwhelm so that it read like the article you found. Your original usage was clunky, and we were trying to give you valid feedback. You are sticking to your guns in the thread while making ninja edits in the copy.
Feedback hurts, but at the end of the day, we’re trying to help you. You keep saying it’s not about correctness, but about sales. What we’re telling you is that your incorrect grammar is losing you sales.
So thank you for taking time out of your day to share your thoughts. It's much appreciated! Have a good day!
It's OK these days, in common vernacular, to use "begs the question" to mean something that prompts or suggests a question. It's really only in the context of "Philosophy 101" (where the meaning is the logical fallacy of the premise assuming the conclusion) that it should not be used that way.
If you're going to get pedantic on the Internets, you better be prepared to go all the way down. :)
It might be fine in general writing, but if I'm a startup paying for an ostensibly well-written press release, I don't want to pay for something that spawns this exact discussion, rather than discussions about the content I want to communicate.