Showing posts with label headline writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label headline writing. Show all posts

Monday, January 14, 2008

The Easiest Ways to Create Eyeball-Grabbing Headlines for Your Marketing Materials

Join Tom Trush, content specialist for Write Way Solutions, and special guest Joey Borane, director of marketing at Design44, on Thursday, January 31, as they present ...

The Easiest Ways to Create Eyeball-Grabbing Headlines
for Your Marketing Materials

During this seminar, you’ll discover …

• How to use your choice of 5 words in any headline to tap the most powerful force in direct marketing and seize your prospects’ attention

• Why an advertisement from the early 1900s was so profitable it ran for a record-setting 40 years without a single change … and how you can achieve similar results

• How a $3.29 purchase found in your grocery store’s checkout lane can instantly improve your headline writing skills and ignite your sales

• A 2-word question that transforms your product or service’s features into the benefits your prospects desire

• 8 marketing pieces you can use for any type of business and how to use each one with the most success

• What eating on an airplane has to do with writing headlines that seduce your prospects into reading your marketing materials

• How to use the magic 4 P’s of marketing to create unmatched demand for whatever you offer your prospects

• Why getting a “yes” response in a headline question can spell doom for your marketing message

• How to use a skill you started learning in first grade to create headlines that “test” your prospects’ needs, while building desire for your product or service

• The single most important quality you must have in every headline … and how you can include 3 additional attributes to make it even more powerful

• 5 things you must know about the human mind to maximize your marketing and, ultimately, create more sales

• 11 secret formulas for writing response-boosting headlines that will pump up any promotion

• And much more!


Seminar Schedule:
7:30 – 8 a.m.: Networking
8 – 9:15 a.m.: Presentation
9:15 – 9:30 a.m.: Q & A session and free raffle

Location:
RE/MAX New Heights Resource Center, 6437 S. Central Ave., in Phoenix

RSVP:
Please RSVP to Tom Trush at info@tomtrush.com by Jan. 29 to secure your seat.


Comments from previous seminar attendees:

“You are awesome! Thanks for the tip about ‘Onlywire,’ it works very well. Now when I Google “SoMo Vacations,” I’m #1, #3 and #6 in the top 10! Not to mention the other tips you shared that got SoMo Network to the top of Google. I just want you to know I appreciate all your ideas, insight and expertise. If you ever need anything, please do not hesitate to ask.”

Isreal Young
Owner, SoMoVacations.com


“Your seminar was amazing – one of the few marketing seminars I've been to that has real take-away value. I started using the secrets and tips the next day and, best of all, they fit into my non-existent marketing budget!”

Shaun Breese
Co-owner, Urban Cookies


“By simply using your tips in a press release to announce a groundbreaking event, we received news coverage from a local business publication, an interview with an industry journal in England, a potential consulting opportunity, and three requests from people interested in leasing space at one of our developments ... and that was just within the first 6 hours of sending out the announcement!”

Jeffrey Garza Walker
Director of New Business Development, P.C. & Development

Monday, December 31, 2007

Can Your Marketing Materials Pass This Grade-School Challenge?

As the son of two teachers (my mom taught 7th and 8th grade English, while my dad was a sociology and anthropology professor at a local community college), I lived in an educational environment for the first 19 years of my life.

In fact, I was literally born in a school setting.

On May 19, 1975, my parents were at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan -- on a field trip with my mom’s 8th grade class -- when my twin brother and I entered the world two months early.

With all this seemingly insider knowledge about teaching, you’d think I might have had an advantage in school, especially when it came to taking tests.

But, like most people, tests made me nervous. I could study for days, but it still wouldn’t eliminate the sweaty palms and stomach aches I felt prior to putting my pencil to paper.

Today, however, tests take on a new meaning. Because of my curiosity, I am actually drawn to certain types of tests.

And here’s a fact: Many of your prospects also enjoy taking tests.

Presenting prospects with tests in the headlines of your marketing materials is a proven way to generate more responses.

By reading this far, you’ve confirmed how well a test works on you. Go ahead and re-read the subject line of this post to see what I mean.

In a previous article, I mentioned a legendary advertisement headline created in the early 1900s by Maxwell Sackheim that read, “Do You Make These Mistakes in English?”

This advertisement, which ran for 40 years without any changes, uses a headline that appeals to your curiosity. A perceived test that you can take yourself makes the advertisement difficult to ignore.

Here are a few similar headlines you can adapt to fit your own industry:

Can You Spot the Design Flaws in This Kitchen Remodel?

Does Your Mortgage Broker Ask You These Questions?

Do You Know These 5 Indicators That Signal the Start of a Recession?

When writing tests for use in your marketing materials, the key is to create “answers” that reinforce why it’s necessary to use your product or service.

For example, a publisher might use the headline in the third bullet above to demonstrate how you receive exclusive information as a subscriber to their magazine. Or, a mortgage professional might use the second headline to highlight characteristics that set his services apart from the competition.

Coming up with test ideas for marketing materials is often easier after reading samples. Here is a rare copy of Sackheim’s advertisement to help with your brainstorming. (If you can’t read the text, click on the image for a larger view.)