I’m working on content for an estate agent (that’s a realtor in the US). On their old site they have one of the worst metaphors that I’ve seen on a serious commercial web site. They have a basket.
That you can put houses in.
Think about that for a moment. As you browse through the site, looking for homes that fit your criteria, you can add ones that you like to a basket. Once they are in there, you click ‘View basket’ to see a list of homes you’ve chosen. There they are, snuggled at the bottom of the basket, waiting for you to – ‘click the register button to post off your details to the agent’. Whatever that means.
Gabriel Smy is a writer and Content Strategist at Fluent. SmyWord is his iron in the content strategy fire. He lives in Cambridge with his four sons and can't resist a paisley shirt, a moody film or a good gastropub. You can follow Gabriel on Twitter.