It’s 90% of the formula.
Why are headlines so important? The answer is that as much as 90 percent of the reason people respond to a sales message is because of what they see in the headline (or what they hear in the opening statement of a salesman too!)
Realise please that you only have 4 seconds maximum, to capture your prospect’s attention. And getting attention is becoming more difficult every day as people are bombarded with more and more messages from an almost overwhelming array of media blitz.
Just think for a moment how you read a newspaper – you scan to see if there are any articles you might be interested in reading. It takes only seconds for you to scan each page. Now when you stop at an article of interest to you what makes you do this? Is it the editorial content or the headline? The headline may well be written in an editorial style, but it is always the headline that grabs your attention and makes you stop and read further. It’s the headline that captures the reader’s attention always.
Consider your headline as an ad for your ad. A good headline doesn’t cost any more than a bad one, so it makes sense to learn how to write them. Right?