How Effective Would This Headline Be

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Tell me what you think of this headline

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Learn how to use technology and advanced internet marketing techniques to build a profitable home business that will send truckloads of residual income into your bank account helping others make money online with their hobbies.
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I am working on lead capture page and I want it to be perfect and high converting Please critique this headline honestly and let me know how I can improve it and make it more effective

Thanks Warriors
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  • Profile picture of the author Eric Engel
    Is that a headline or a paragraph? A one sentence (very long sentence) paragraph.

    Hey, if you can't say it in one breath, then maybe you should rewrite.
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  • Profile picture of the author write-stuff
    My humble opinion is that its about 3 times too long. And unless you really mean it, I'm not all hip on the "truckloads of income" claim. Like I said, just my opinion. Only worth what you make of it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Miller
    "Truckloads of income" does sound a bit hyperbolic...

    And the headline really does need to be shortened.
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  • Profile picture of the author dorothydot
    I agree with everyone else. Wayyy too long - and you tend to use $50 words - when it's much better to use short, easily-understood words. Especially in a headline!

    "Learn how to use technology and advanced internet marketing techniques to build a profitable home business that will send truckloads of residual income into your bank account helping others make money online with their hobbies."

    My quick, off-the-top-of-my-head thoughts: Instead of Learn how to use technology and advanced internet marketing techniques... how about, Discover the magic of technology and high-level internet marketing secrets...

    ... to build a profitable home business -- how about, to create your own thriving home business. And, ...will send truckloads of residual income into your bank account -- could become, Filling your bank account poof! with the miracle of residual income.

    And so on. You get the idea - the main object is to use words and images that your readers instantly understand.

    I'd also ser-i-ously consider breaking this way-too-long sentence into one headline [with a single thought and a single benefit], leaving the rest as sub-head/s that could be sprinkled throughout your text.

    Hope this helps,

    Dot

    PS - I'd also look at your text; the chances are that you could pare down your sentences there as well?
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  • Profile picture of the author erinwrites
    I agree with the others that it is waaaay too long. Think about the word headline Quick, easy and attention grabby. The body of your page is for explaining the opportunity.
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  • Profile picture of the author logosi
    yes, too loooonnnggg, but at least you've come to the right spot for a critique.
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  • Profile picture of the author softtouch
    Yes it's too long and too complex.

    This is probably better I hope you don't mind me playing :-0

    "Powerful internet marketing techniques that build profitable home businesses and send truckloads of cash into your bank account"

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  • Profile picture of the author tommen
    That headline is way to long.Headlines starting with "How To", "7 Steps To" and similar usually grab my attention. "Truckloads of income" sounds cheesy and spammy.
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  • Profile picture of the author JonathanBoettcher
    Hmm too long and I don't like the truckloads part... I know everyone is doing it, but it doesn't mean anything anymore. That's what everyone is claiming, and it comes off as cheapening to me..

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    • Profile picture of the author TianYan
      Your original headline:

      Learn how to use technology and advanced internet marketing techniques to build a profitable home business that will send truckloads of residual income into your bank account helping others make money online with their hobbies.

      Take note that you did not make the headline easy to read out loud. Now, not all people read their headlines vocally, but my observation is that even if they read it silently, they subvocalize the words in their head.

      Think about it. If you see big, read headlines splashed across the screen, it is harder to skim through and you will read it in your head one word at a time.

      First, I would use quotation marks. It helps them to subvocalize the headline better.

      "Learn how to use technology and advanced internet marketing techniques to build a profitable home business that will send truckloads of residual income into your bank account helping others make money online with their hobbies."

      Next, I will break it down into easy to vocalize chunks.

      "Learn Advanced Internet Marketing Techniques To Build A Profitable Home Business That Gets Truckloads Of Residual Income Into Your Bank Account, Automatically

      I also omitted sections of your headline that does not bring any self-serving benefit to the reader, such as "helping others make money online with their hobbies."

      Change a few words in the headline...

      "Discover 16 Advanced Internet Marketing Techniques
      That Builds Your Profitable Home Business
      And Brings Truckloads Of Residual Income
      Into Your Bank Account, Automatically"

      Notice I add specificity and some alliteration in to play here. I segment each thought into a new line as well.

      Finally, if you are selling to, let's say unemployed home workers.

      "Working From Paycheck To Paycheck?"

      "Discover 16 Advanced Internet Marketing Techniques
      That Builds Your Profitable Home Business
      And Brings Truckloads Of Residual Income
      Into Your Bank Account, Automatically..."

      Let's add one more John Forde technique into headline.

      "Working From Paycheck To Paycheck?"

      "Discover Why Now You Can Immediately Use
      16 Advanced Internet Marketing Techniques
      That Builds Your Profitable Home Business
      And Brings Truckloads Of Residual Income
      Into Your Bank Account, Automatically..."

      People are naturally skeptical. So you have to open
      by telling who you are, and address the skepticism if
      not overcome it.

      Is this helpful for you?

      Be Well,
      - Tian Yan
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  • Profile picture of the author nicholasb
    Thank you everyone so much this is very helpful to me, I have been playing with different versions of this headline, trying to improve it with all of your helpful advice.

    I will stick to internet marketing and leave copy writing to the experts,
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    • Profile picture of the author Matthew Moyer
      These are only my opinions below and the only real
      answer to your challenge is to do split tests and
      keep the best preforming tests.


      I would first drop the word (Learn) from the headline.

      Learn is like a bad word, people don't want to learn.
      It's to much like school, and that's where you go to
      learn and most people probably didn't like going
      to school.

      So the word (Learn) brings negative feelings that
      are probably deep rooted.

      Instead use words like (Discover) or (Uncover) or
      (Revealed).

      Sort of the same thing as the word Learn, don't say
      (use technology). To many people think of themselves
      as computer illiterate even if they aren't, and that
      will make them back away and leave quickly.

      Also saying (helping others make money online) is another
      no no. Helping others doesn't usually seem like an
      easy thing. People might not mind helping others except
      they won't expect helping others to necesarily be easy.

      It also doesn't help that if you trying to teach people
      to make money that your telling them they are
      going to be making money by helping others to make money.
      Because if they aren't making money now it makes it
      automatically unbelievable.

      Then there is the truckloads part. When was the last
      time you saw a truck dumping money off at a bank?
      My guess is probably never, and that's the same
      for probably ever single person who will ever read that
      headline. It makes no connection, even if they are able
      to see a picture of a truck at a bank in their head.

      Since your trying to represent techniques of making money
      and making lots of it connect with it a different way.

      "Revealed - 3 Simple Techniques used by the Wealthiest
      Online Marketers that You can use to deposit checks into
      your Bank Account Daily"

      That headline would be an okay start. It removes the
      useless excess and tells them that what is being revealed
      are the same techniques used by a wealthy group to
      make them money everday.

      Now obviously that must be adapted accordingly to make
      it truthful.

      If you could create a report to give freely on your lead
      capture page it would also help invoke the law of reciprocity.

      Now for the most important part. If you are really looking
      for the highest converting page you can get all you have to
      do is keep testing your headline and salescopy.

      Start with your current headline then split test it against
      some of the headlines presented by the others who posted.

      Keep the ones that convert the best as your control and then
      compare it with another test to a different headline or offer
      or salespage copy.
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