8 Different Types Of Headlines Which Sell

Your headline in your advertising and on your website account for 90% of your sales. Your sales can double, triple or as much as 1700% or more, just from a persuasive headline. Here's 8 different types of headlines you can model from with examples and increase your sales.

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BBC placed on dirty list for ‘propping up’ Burma junta

The BBC is to be named in a “dirty list” of companies accused of helping to prop up Burma’s military rulers. BBC Worldwide, the corporation’s commercial arm, will be criticised for promoting tourism to the country, despite pleas from Burma’s pro-democracy movement for holidaymakers to stay away...

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Black gold rush

"I feel like I'm taking care of a herd of cows," says Bill Huber as he gently nudges his pick-up truck along muddy, gouged-out tracks to check on his precious charges, scattered through the woods. "Every day there's something to be done. A problem with a drill pipe, a bearing to replace, or something wrong with a pumping jack."

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The Color of Money -- This Bud's for You, and Your Portfolio

Funny Business -- It's generally believed that the number one product from California's number one industry isn't legal. Agriculture remains the Golden State's biggest business, and some believe marijuana is worth $14 billion. No one really knows for sure. The LEGAL medical marijuana business is estimated by advocates to be worth up to $2 Billion.

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Welfare grows after decade of declines

"When the economy starts to tank, that's when our business starts growing," chief of eligibility for Nevada's welfare agency Jeff Brenn ...

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Failing Economy Predicts Worse Health

Health care in the U.S. is expensive. That much is plain to many Americans these days. But as the economy spirals downward, a series of recent reports forecasts that the country's health-care crisis is about to get worse, particularly for children.

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Craigslist scratches its head, tells eBay WTF

Craigslist asks eBay - who is calling the kettle black? CEO Jim Buckmaster says in a blog post that many of the protections that Craigslist has implemented were used by eBay themselves in the past years.

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