Sunday, September 21, 2014

Three great headline starters
The difference between a good article and a great one?  The headline.  The difference between an email your list ignores and a solid gold mailing that cranks out sales?  The headline. 
Put simply, headlines matter.  They matter a lot.  You can't keep people reading with bad content, but you can't even get the ball rolling without a headline that attracts attention.  There's a reason why top copywriters spend more time wrestling with headlines than they do on any other part of the creative process.
Here are three great ways to start headlines.  These proven winners can put you on the path of writing that “must-open” email or that “must read” article.
  1. The Best Way to _____
  2. Five Tips for _____
  3. The Secret to Bigger/Better/Higher _____
Obviously, you can adjust and tweak these “starters” to meet your needs.  The underlying principles behind them (supply how-to information, offering a specific/quantifiable number of something, promising to reveal a secret) are what makes them work.
If you're not writing good headlines, you're not getting the most out of your efforts.  This is one area not to neglect!
The best way to get yourself in copywriting mode is to go to the grocery store and look at the headlines on the magazines some of them a shear artwork how they grab your eye and others just pure showmanship either way they sell magazines even in this digital world.

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