If your blog headline is poor, your post probably won’t get read. If it doesn’t get read, you’re not going to establish profitable relationships with your audience. So the goal of your blog headline is to grab attention so people feel compelled to read and share.
So use these 23 headline ideas ...
As I said last week, I think it’s a good idea to forget those annoying sliders and concentrate on an effective homepage headline instead.
Sliders are hard to read and they spray out too much info at once, creating a confusing user experience. The problem with that is it’s too ...
I am always disappointed when I click on a website and get a homepage slider at the top with no headline. Actually, “disappointed” is being nice…upset is a better way to put it.
Why would I get frustrated with a homepage slider?
Because when I search the internet, I’m usually ...
“Consumers prize authenticity, so companies like the online retailer Zady attach narratives to their wares.” (NYTimes 12.28.14)
Where does the stuff you buy come from? Does anyone really care? Do you need to add authenticity to your website?
According to the New York Times Sunday Business section (12.28.14) in an ...
What are your favorite movie or TV versions of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol? My favorites are the 1951 movie starring Alistair Sim and the TV version with George C. Scott as the miserly, Christmas hating Scrooge.
But every year, I read the beautiful story of redemption in the actual ...
The Content Marketing Institute (CMI) enlisted the opinions of thought leaders and just published their 60 Content Predictions for 2015.
Let’s keep these in mind as we think about our content development strategies for next year. We’ll start with the CMI’s founder, Joe Pulizzi, with a prediction that I had ...
Marketing online is completely different from traditional advertising. That’s because its origins are based on sharing, not shouting. The internet has transformed everything you thought you knew about business marketing.
If you account for these differences when you market online, you’ll get better results in every medium you use including ...
The internet was born to share. It started with the government and evolved to include research universities where professors, scientists, and students connected with each other on their computers.
They shared information, opinions, and, no doubt, a few laughs in text only mode from one computer to another. Tim Berners-Lee ...
Remember, “You’ve got mail”?
I got my first emails way back in the late 90s when I owned a book distributing and publishing company. Back then, receiving an email was cool. It often meant an order or an author offering a new manuscript idea. Or friends forwarding a joke they ...
My name is Nick Burns and I specialize in SEO Web writing, website information architecture, content marketing and publishing. I write and develop content for most businesses including manufacturing, internet technology, insurance, software, large non-profits, consumer packaged goods, architects, industrial and heavy equipment distributors, restaurants, financial services, advertising/marketing agencies, golf, fitness, and internet marketers.
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