3 Steps to Creating High-Converting Headlines

Headlines are the single most important part of any marketing document, 
be it an email, a sales letter, squeeze page or paid advertisement. That’s 
because the headline is your first and only opportunity to capture the 
attention of the prospective customer.

If your headline fails to make an instant, immediate impression upon your 
reader, they will stop reading further and probably are lost to you forever.

The best headlines – those that grasp your page visitor by the lapels, 
shake them up and refuse to let go – share three common traits.

If you ensure that your headlines always includes these three qualities, 
you can attract a greater number of prospects to spend more time with 
your copy and enhance your chances of converting them into a long-term 
customer, which is the ultimate objective of any marketing document.

Clarity Is King

The first and most important quality of any great headline is that it can be 
immediately understood by anybody who is reading it. The more clarity a 
headline has, the more appealing it will be to page visitors.

If your headline is in any way ambiguous, confusing, or doesn’t provide a 
clear and concise message that can be grasped instantly, it is going to 
turn readers away in droves. Clear, easy to understand headlines should 
be as specific as possible.

Remember, the people who are landing on your pages or seeing your ads 
are looking for solutions and answers. The last thing they want to do is to 
spend more time trying to figure out what is meant by an ambiguous or 
uncertain headline. Be as clear as you can possibly be.

Headlines Have Two Parts

The most effective headlines have two parts: The headline itself and the 
sub-headline, also known as the “sub-head”. One way to think of it is like 
this: The headline is the bait that gets the prospect in the door and the 
sub-head is what you use to hook them in so they will keep reading.

A clear and concise headline is critical, but by itself it usually is not 
enough to fully engage the reader. It needs help – in the form of a 
great, informative sub-head that boosts the clarity the reader gets from 
the headline.

The sub-head acts to reaffirm the reason why your reader has landed on 
your page or looked at your ad in the first place. It should set the stage 
for the story your content is about to tell them.

The Best Headlines Include Numbers

There is a whole body of research that proves that people using the 
Internet are astronomically more likely to click through on a headline that 
includes a number than one that simply includes words.

This has something to do with the way our minds are wired.

Numbers express certainty. They subconsciously tell the reader that there 
message expressed in the headline is based on substance and fact, so 
people seeking solutions or answers online are naturally more attracted 
to headlines that include numbers than they are to just words.

The numbers you put in your headlines can include all kinds of figures, 
including percentages, the amount of things on lists, time measurements, 
and so on:

Generally, the number will be in the main headline rather than the sub-
head. But the information in the sub-head should support whatever 
number you include in the headline.

These three qualities are so widely used that headlines that don’t include 
them are often perceived as jarring or off-putting – and usually fail to 
convert.

Successful marketers understand what works and what doesn’t, so they 
gravitate toward the tried and true in order to maximize their results.

If you keep your headlines clear and to the point, include sub-headlines 
that support the primary point of the main headline, and include numbers 
to give your headline substance and authority, you can exponentially 
increase your conversion rates regardless of what type of marketing 
document you are using.

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