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3 Simple Questions that Help You Write Better Headlines

Writers are communicators, and if you’re proud of your ideas, you’ll definitely want to learn how to write better headlines.

Headlines are your first opportunity to present your marketing story to the audience you want to reach, so you want to be able to communicate your most important points clearly and precisely.

The language you use should appeal to those people and make them want to find out more.

Once you’ve learned how to write a headline with your target keyword phrase, use the prompts in this post to go beyond basic headline formulas.

These three questions help ensure your title is the most effective it can be. The answers to these questions most likely won’t produce the exact headline you’ll use, though.

Rather, they’ll help shape your headline draft into a persuasive message that reaches and connects with the people you want to attract to your content.

Keep reading: 3 Simple Questions that Help You Write Better Headlines

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Your Success Is NOT Based on Luck

This week on The Copyblogger Podcast, Tim Stoddart and Ethan Brooks talk about several keys to running successful service-based businesses, including mindset exercises that will help you understand your value and raise your prices.

They also discuss Sahil Bloom, and chart his path to 100k email subscribers and 600k Twitter followers.

Listen now: Your Success Is NOT Based on Luck

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ICYMI: 4 Smart Guides for Productive Writers

In case you missed any of these recent blog posts, here are 4 smart guides for productive writers:

• 10 Timeless Persuasive Writing Techniques
• What Is Writer’s Block?
• How to Overcome Writer’s Block with Neuroscience
• Quit Trashing Your Writing Voice with This Rookie Mistake

Be sure to bookmark your favorites and share them with your audience!

Talk with you again soon,

Stefanie Flaxman
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, COPYBLOGGER MEDIA