Certain combinations of words continue to make the most effective headlines. Probably the same words you hear everyday.
In fact the most powerful words used in winning mail-order ads (the hardest kind of advertising) were the words, YOU, HOW and NEW.
Not far behind was HOW TO.
If you ever get stuck for a headline, a classic which almost never fails to work is HOW TO. (It’s a shop-worn classic, but it still works like incredibly well.)
Here are some of the other proven, headline words. Start using these words in your letters to make your headlines really sizzle:
Advice To
Amazing
Announcing
Annoying
Astonishing
At Last
Bargain
Breakthrough
Discover
Do You
Facts You
Free
Hate
Here
How Much
How To
How Would
Introducing
Just
Life
Love
New
Now
Only
Protect
Sale
Secrets Of
The Truth Of
This
Which
Why
Yes
You
You can combine some of these together to create excellent headlines, like this:
At Last! New Breakthrough Internet Marketing System Discovered
Or
“How To Protect Your Computer From Fatal Errors - The Facts You Must Know!”
Now you’ve got the headline, let’s move on to the body of the letter…