15 Ways to? or 15 Tips? Which sounds better?

[Networking_now]

Which is better from a copywriting 'pulling in' point of view? Ways or Tips?

15 Ways To Improve Your Confidence?

15 Tips To Improve Your Confidence?


15 Ways To Help You Study More Efficiency

15 Tips To Help You Study More Efficiency


Ways VS Tips?

or an alternative better word? I should test but just checking if the majority of copywriters prefer one in their copy

This is for lead generation will be used for a Headline title for lead generation (or for a description) to a squeeze page, which gives the report of the 15 Tips report.

[Rezbi]

Why not try both and test?

[Networking_now]

Originally Posted by Rezbi

Why not try both and test?

(OP edited) I will test but just checking if the majority of copywriters prefer one in their copy

[Rezbi]

Originally Posted by Networking_now

(OP edited) I will test but just checking if the majority of copywriters prefer one in their copy

If someone held a gun to my head and forced me to choose one of the two, I'd go for 'ways'.

If someone held a gun to my head and forced me to do something to get results, I'd test.

[Alex Cohen]

Originally Posted by Networking_now

Which is better from a copywriting 'pulling in' point of view? Ways or Tips?

15 Ways To Improve Your Confidence?

15 Tips To Improve Your Confidence?


15 Ways To Help You Study More Efficiency

15 Tips To Help You Study More Efficiency


Ways VS Tips?

or an alternative better word? I should test but just checking if the majority of copywriters prefer one in their copy

"Mistakes" generally works better than "ways" or "tips", because it makes the prospect wonder if he's doing something wrong or missing something.

"15 Mistakes Students Make When Studying For Their Final Exam"

Alex

[AustinLadyTam]

I second Paul on "secrets" or "shortcuts", and I'd tweak Alex's suggestion of "mistakes" into a variation on the classic "Do You Make These Mistakes In English?"

[MontelloMarketing]

I'll jump away from everyone and say...

In my experience "strategies" beats them all.

Tips sound like there is no value in it. "tips" sounds cheap.
Ways sounds unprofessional. Pedestrian.

Strategies sounds like something to me.

And if you wanted to amp that up even I'd consider secret strategies.

[Networking_now]

Originally Posted by Paul McQuillan

I would go with 'ways', without question. I
do not associate value with 'tips' personally.

You can and should test, but you may want
to test some others as well. (like secrets,
methods, shortcuts, etc...)

How will this be used? I mean is this for a headline
or lead generation? (i.e. ppc)

This is for lead generation will be used for a Headline title for lead generation (or for a description) to a squeeze page, which gives the report of the 15 Tips report - OP Modified including this)

[Networking_now]

'Improving golf' is another one i was going to get into.


15 Strategies to improve your golf

15 Ways to improve your golf

[MontelloMarketing]

Originally Posted by Paul McQuillan

15 Shocking Strategies on How to ____________

Actually Paul, I hate to pick a nit but the "on how" suck the wind out of the sail. "On how" makes it theoretical.

Just "15 shocking strategies to..." Is better.

[Johnny12345]

It depends a lot on the product.

If you're peddling meatloaf recipes, it might be okay to say...

15 Tips For A Tasty Meatloaf

Or...

15 Ways To Make A Tasty Meatloaf

But...

15 Secret Meatloaf Domination Strategies

...might not work as well.

On the other hand, for a financial or money-making product, saying "tips" or "ways" may be too weak.

You should match the language to the product.

Johnny

[Rezbi]

Originally Posted by Paul McQuillan

Hmm, I would not use 'tips' or 'ways'. I will play off of Vin-

15 Shocking Strategies on How to ____________

How about:

15 Shocking Strategies For Improving Your Confidence

15 Shocking Strategies For Boosting Your Confidence

15 Shocking Strategies For Boosting Your Confidence Through The Roof

[sundrop881]

Originally Posted by MontelloMarketing

I'll jump away from everyone and say...

In my experience "strategies" beats them all.

Tips sound like there is no value in it. "tips" sounds cheap.
Ways sounds unprofessional. Pedestrian.

Strategies sounds like something to me.

And if you wanted to amp that up even I'd consider secret strategies.

Originally Posted by Paul McQuillan

Hmm, I would not use 'tips' or 'ways'. I will play off of Vin-

15 Shocking Strategies on How to ____________

Originally Posted by Rezbi

How about:

15 Shocking Strategies For Improving Your Confidence

15 Shocking Strategies For Boosting Your Confidence

15 Shocking Strategies For Boosting Your Confidence Through The Roof

Also, I wanted to get Johnny12345, but I am still learning this multiquote button.

Just in case anyone did not see this progression or evolution of ideas, I wanted to show what a team effort could accomplish ---the above!!!

Just have to say you guys are awesome! Thanks, you made my day!

[Nicola Lane]

When it comes to confidence I'm not sure you want "shocking" - how about "winning".

Look at making your modifier appropriate to your subject.

For meatloaf you might have tasty strategies

For exam revision how about painless strategies or shortcut strategies - or painless techniques, shortcut tactics.

Consult a good thesaurus!

Hope that helps

[Rezbi]

Originally Posted by Nicola Lane

When it comes to confidence I'm not sure you want "shocking" - how about "winning".

Look at making your modifier appropriate to your subject.

For meatloaf you might have tasty strategies

For exam revision how about painless strategies or shortcut strategies - or painless techniques, shortcut tactics.

Consult a good thesaurus!

Hope that helps

Good idea. Winning sounds better than shocking.

15 Winning Strategies For Improving Your Confidence

15 Wicked Strategies For Boosting Your Confidence

15 Rocking Strategies For Boosting Your Confidence Through The Roof

[Citigo Sales]

It depends on the object you want to "improve" to select the word.

If the object is something small, interesting, informal then "Tips" is a better choice.

If the object is something formal or related to business, "Strategy" is a good word.

[nuclear81]

When I hear "Tips" it makes it sound like it will be tiny snippets of advice. "Strategies" and "Ways" sounds more formal and like the advice will be more helpful.

[tyroneshum]

All I can say is that with "ways", you also are getting the audience to go through the "tips" to learn along and take action in the process. Also, it's more friendly in the ears.

Originally Posted by tyroneshum

All I can say is that with "ways", you also are getting the audience to go through the "tips" to learn along and take action in the process. Also, it's more friendly in the ears.

Agreed. Ways provides a method for getting what they want, rather than just the ideas for doing it (tips).

[eSupportSystem]

Hi,

I am new here and joined today. Hello to everyone!

I think you better go with "15 EASY Tips" than "15 Ways". Ways are confusing and if you cannot address it properly or the reader get the address clearly. lol.

EASY Tips seem like apple falling from tree to your palm.

Thanks Everyone!

[Jason Fladlien]

What I found works EVEN better is to ditch the "X number of ways/strategies/whatever" and theme the piece like this...

"A 3 minute strategy to immediately boost your confidence to newfound levels"

or

"A 2 minute, 27 second strategy that MIGHT shave 3 strokes off your next round of golf" (btw, I have found "might" works great in ultra-competitive markets with these type of headlines...)

Or even, "Give me 1 minute and 14 seconds and I can show you how to defeat information overload..." etc.

I have found it's better to deal with TIME instead of "number of"... in terms of our response rates. Of course, your whole theme is different then... instead of a grab bag of tips, you're giving them a step by step exercise...

Something to try out. It has been working like gangbusters for me and my clients.

-Jason

[honestbizpro]

Originally Posted by MontelloMarketing

I'll jump away from everyone and say...

In my experience "strategies" beats them all.

Tips sound like there is no value in it. "tips" sounds cheap.
Ways sounds unprofessional. Pedestrian.

Strategies sounds like something to me.

And if you wanted to amp that up even I'd consider secret strategies.

I was going to say find a way to change it to "reasons" and be sure to state the problem you are solving.

[SilentX]

Shortcuts and strategies sound the best for me. I'd stear away from using mistakes, or any other pejorative words unless you're going for shock value, like, "Huge Mistakes That All Copywriters Make! Are You One of Them?"
Negative sounding comments that subhead your lists don't generally make a consumer feel good about your info.

[anwar001]

Originally Posted by Jason Fladlien

What I found works EVEN better is to ditch the "X number of ways/strategies/whatever" and theme the piece like this...

"A 3 minute strategy to immediately boost your confidence to newfound levels"

I have found it's better to deal with TIME instead of "number of"... in terms of our response rates. Of course, your whole theme is different then... instead of a grab bag of tips, you're giving them a step by step exercise...

Something to try out. It has been working like gangbusters for me and my clients.

-Jason

I think people are fed up of seeing the '15 awesome tips' kind of headlines everywhere specially at the article directories. The one suggested by Jason is a new kind of headline and that is probably the reason it might prove to be much more effective, until marketers do it to death too.

[ezinewriter]

Originally Posted by Networking_now

Which is better from a copywriting 'pulling in' point of view? Ways or Tips?

15 Ways To Improve Your Confidence?

15 Tips To Improve Your Confidence?


15 Ways To Help You Study More Efficiency

15 Tips To Help You Study More Efficiency


Ways VS Tips?

or an alternative better word? I should test but just checking if the majority of copywriters prefer one in their copy

This is for lead generation will be used for a Headline title for lead generation (or for a description) to a squeeze page, which gives the report of the 15 Tips report.

Add the word easy before Ways it works best for me.

15 Easy Ways To Improve Your Confidence?