If you were to launch a website for your single person company, would you use a singular Me/I or We/Us in your texts?
To me, many phrases read much better using “we” but I don’t want to deceive anyone by suggesting they’d be signing up for a fully staffed company.
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I'd go with We even if it's just you. Unless you're company name is just your name, it which case it's better to go with I.
One approach is to just depersonalize it. Have the website explain itself, not its creator/operator.
"This website does this" or "website dot com does this" instead of "I do this"
It should be plural unless it's very important to emphasize that it is you and never will be anyone else. you are speaking for the company, which could include others.
Not "could," it either does or doesn't
If you include external factors like the feds that essentially run every company, then it does include others
If not, then it doesn't (OP would know)
Avoid it altogether :)
Instead of "we aim to provide a service...."
Use:
"Hermetic (whatever your company name is) aims to provide a service.... "
Might be tricky in some phrases, but company name is a decent substitute.
Maybe..
Trying out for a few parts here and there. Thanks.
Even though I have a 2 person team co owner LLC, I still say "we" meaning the company and I. So if you are solo I'd go with We because the company is an intitiy. So on paper it is its own thing. So to me I say "we"
We because even if it's one person, hopefully you're an S Corp status so you and the business are different entities. Plus you'll grow and add employees. I was in the same boat
That's a good reason.
1. Will it always be single person company?
2. In sci literature, we is used even for single author papers (https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/2945/choice-of-personal-pronoun-in-single-author-papers)
Don't know, I'm not experienced tbh, still building my product. Want to offer what I know though. Might grow, might not. Thanks, didn't know that. Gives me an idea even. 🫡
Use company and Me/ I. A small single person company thrive on personal service, reputation and your story. Take advantage of that.
We
The company is an entity, you work with it. Saying I will shift responsibility and the front end customer will place all of it on you.
Also, we futureproofs all company stakeholders as a collective rather than a single person, and if you hire someone then you don't need to go back and change the messaging.
Also, we sounds more than one, thus giving the business the perception of being established.
Thanks for all the recommendations everyone. 💜
Depends on what you are hoping to achieve. We gives more credibility to the story - but the rest of the site needs to align (so no stock photos of people)
The single person org is a big thing right now - so may work depending on target org.
I definitely wouldn't do any stock photos or even AI pictures. Just text, simple, to the points, some design.
