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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The Fed has Sold Half of all US Gold to Suppress Gold Prices

"the gold price suppression scheme was the cornerstone of Secretary Treasury Robert Rubin's 'strong dollar' policy", and "Treasury Secretary Paulson, a key member of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets (popularly known as the Plunge Protection Team)" who chillingly said, "The United States will do what it takes to calm markets"

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Web 2.0, Please Meet Your Host, the Internet

Web 2.0 companies need to get a better understanding of the host entity that runs their business, the Internet. If not, they need to need to find someone that does, preferably someone they bring in at inception. Failing to do so will inevitably cost these companies users, performance and money.

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It's Now Completely Impossible To Sell A Laptop On Ebay

Timothy's email went on for about two weeks, so we've tried to edit it for length.

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Burger With a Side of Spies

The Burger King Corporation, home of the Whopper, hired a private security firm to spy on the Student/Farmworker Alliance, a group of idealistic college students trying to improve the lives of migrants in Florida.

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Get Paid in pound sterling, £ By Placing Ads On Blogs

I found a great site that gives Bloggers and webmasters a good way to make money from their blogs or sites. The site I found is called Matched.co.uk. This site gives Bloggers and webmasters to register and show ads that look like AdSense Ads on their blogs or sites.

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Xiaonei, the Facebook of China, raises $430M — better as FB

Xiaonei, the company that likes to call itself the “Facebook of China” has raised a whopping $430 million from financial backers, VentureBeat has learned from the company’s investors. The backing gives it a larger financial warchest than Facebook itself, and sets the scene for a showdown with the American company. Facebook has just started to get s

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Millionaires say economy squeezing them too

Even millionaires are feeling the economic squeeze, with many saying they don’t even “feel” wealthy. But as a group, they are optimistic that things will improve in the next year.

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Dumb as We Wanna Be

The McCain-Clinton gas holiday proposal is a perfect example of what energy expert Peter Schwartz of Global Business Network describes as the true American energy policy today: “Maximize demand, minimize supply and buy the rest from the people who hate us the most.”

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Rockefellers call for Exxon to invest in alternative energy

A majority of members of the Rockefeller family called on Exxon Mobil Corp. to look beyond the oil and gas industry and invest in alternative energy

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America Losing Faith in Economy: Confidence Hits 5-Year Low

The lack of confidence in the flagging economy has been spurred on by rising gas and food prices and weakening job prospects. As a result, "a widely watched measure of consumer sentiment [reached] a five-year low, a private research group said Tuesday," according to the AP.

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Interview with Ebay Founder: "Pursue Your Passion"

I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job,” recalls Pierre Omidyar. Now the website hosts nearly four million auctions every day, with almost half a million new items being added for sale every 24 hour. Omidyar’s personal net worth is estimated to be roughly $10 billion.

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Fed cuts rates again - Expect Higher Commodity Prices

"Scrambling to shore up the faltering economy, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to the lowest point in nearly four years Wednesday as the nation teetered on the edge of recession"Trouble is that there is plenty of capital, too much in fact and that capital doesn't want real estate or stocks. It wants fungible assets: food, oil.Bad move.

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Super Bowl generated $500 million for Arizona

We should have one every day to combat the recession...

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Lipstick May Be an Economic Indicator

After the terrorist attacks of 2001 deflated the economy, Mr. Lauder noticed that his company was selling more lipstick than usual. He hypothesized that lipstick purchases are a way to gauge the economy. When it’s shaky, he said, sales increase as women boost their mood with inexpensive lipstick purchases instead of $500 slingbacks.

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CEOs Rake It In, While Their Companies Tank

Being a CEO these days is like playing on a kiddie soccer team; everyone gets a prize... even the worst player.

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No News are Good News!? - Yahoo maintains silence

No news isn't always good news. Four days have passed since the expiration of Microsoft's deadline for Yahoo to accept its buyout offer or face a hostile takeover. Microsoft declared it would launch a proxy fight to oust Yahoo's board or walk away from the deal if the two failed to reach an agreement by April 26.

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Starbucks Earnings Sink 21%

Starbucks, faced with a sharp drop-off in customers, reported on Wednesday that earnings declined 21 percent during the second quarter.

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Why gas in the U.S. is so cheap: $12.03 a Galllon in Aruba

Out of 155 countries surveyed, U.S. gas prices were the 45th cheapest, according to a recent study from AIRINC, a research firm that tracks cost of living data. The difference is staggering. As of late March, U.S. gas prices averaged $3.45 a gallon. That compares to over $8 a gallon across much of Europe, $12.03 in Aruba and $18.42 in Sierra Leone.

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Warren Buffett to draw biggest crowd ever

Few 77-year-olds could hold thousands of people in rapt attention for five hours. Sean Connery, maybe; Clint Eastwood, perhaps. Warren Buffett? Definitely. Buffett will be the center of attention on...

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Fed cuts rates again - Expect Higher Commodity Prices

"Scrambling to shore up the faltering economy, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to the lowest point in nearly four years Wednesday as the nation teetered on the edge of recession"Trouble is that there is plenty of capital, too much in fact and that capital doesn't want real estate or stocks. It wants fungible assets: food, oil.Bad move.

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