https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YW-QiqXzgY&feature=youtu.be
Part 27 in a 35 part series on headlines from John Caples book, Tested Advertising Methods.
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Transcription
Can you pass the headline test?
Hi, I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.
We're going to talk about the headline test, whether you have the ability to pass it or not. But first, I want to remind you about the book that I'm giving away for free current costs on on Amazon.com, and somewhere around $20, Nine Ways to Amazon-Proof Your Business.
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Now, let's talk about the headline test, shall we?
What's the headline test?
The headline test is something I just made up. Okay, here's the headline test.
Do you use headlines on a regular basis?
Do you study headlines?
I want to see if you answer yes to any of these questions.
Do you study headlines?
Do you have headline templates that you use?
If you answered yes to any of those, you're in the right direction, you're in the right place, because I'm going through the 35 proven formulas for writing headlines, as written down by John Caples.
In his book, Tested Advertising Methods, his fall from chapter five, and we are on number 27, I think today. Let's see here, number 27. And what's number 27, it's offer the reader a test. This is very interesting. This is a very interesting one.
Now if you answered no to any of those, you really need to pay attention to what we're talking about. And you need to go back and watch the other videos in this series. They're all in order for one to 35.
Like I said, we're on number 27 in this video. And we're going through each one of these, any one of these can be used over and over and over again, as a form of headline as a form of title for something that you have a blog or video, a podcast episode.
Any of these things can be used over and over and over again, if you're not using headlines.
So the question is why?
Why are you not using headlines?
You're probably using them and you don't realize you are but you aren't treating them the right way. And so you have to think about these things. So he talks about offering the reader a test.
Now, we're not just talking readers, he's talking readers because he was writing this at a time when he's talking about advertising, written advertising, okay, stuff that's out there and ink and paper.
Now we have digital advertising, we have stuff that people will may be reading or people may be, they may be hearing it, they may be seeing it without reading it. They may be watching a video. This is what we're talking about here. Okay, so here's a couple of examples that he gives.
Can your scalp pass the fingernail test?
Can your kitchen pass the guest test?
Can you pass the memory test,