Image is a yellow iMac. The Copy Trust helps businesses increase revenue.
Image is a yellow iMac. The Copy Trust helps businesses increase revenue.

I find what your customers are actually thinking, then write the words that turn that into action.

I've found that the issue is rarely the copy itself. It's what I call Inside-Out Copy: writing that comes from the writer, not the reader.

It's built from internal language, internal assumptions, and internal perspective on what the customer needs to hear. It feels right internally because it reflects how the business sees its own work. It fails externally because the customer is experiencing an entirely different situation.

Inside-Out Copy can't be fixed from the inside. That's where I come in.

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Why this is fixable, and why I'm the right person to fix it

Hilary at El Jem in Tunisia. When not diagnosing Inside-Out Copy, she gets Outside into the world.

I spent over a decade running marketing inside complex, regulated environments. My KPIs were revenue that increased…or didn't.

Before I was in marketing, I worked in equine surgery, where I learned what a good system looks like when there's no room for guesswork. That training transferred directly to working in marketing. In regulated industries, you can’t just try stuff. You find the right person. You find their language. You build the message from there. Then you validate everything (the copy, the structure, the message) before you declare it done.

Working inside businesses where messaging and copy directly affected revenue showed me exactly how Inside-Out Copy happens. Decisions would get made in rooms of people who knew their product deeply, but stopped remembering what it felt like not to understand it. Their customer's language, their actual frustrations, their real objections: none of it was making it around those tables.

Finding those specific customer words and putting them to work is an awful lot of the job. It's also, genuinely, one of my favorite parts.

How I Work For You

I focus on the two places Inside-Out Copy costs you the most: your website and your email.

Homepages that get traffic but don't make you enough money. Welcome sequences that don't ask people to take the next step. Retention emails that go ignored. Those are the problems I fix for you.

When the targeting is right, the research is done properly, and the structure follows the evidence, the numbers move.

Every project follows the same process.

→ Learn how the TRUST Method works.

When I’m not diagnosing conversion systems, I’m exploring the world, always noticing patterns, problems, and opportunities along the way. So when I look at your messaging, I'm not guessing what to fix, I'm diagnosing a system.

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Img of Hilary sitting on the horse head fountain in Wijngaardplein in Bruges, Belgium

The First Chat Is a Working One

We'll spend 15 - 30 minutes on a call. You tell me what you think the problem is. I'll tell you where I'd look first and why.

No pitch. No homework. Just a review.

If we’re not the right match, I'll say so.