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The easy way to headline mastery

Here's a great tool you should use right now. It's a Emotional Marketing Value Headline Analyzer at the Advanced Marketing Institute website.

All you do is enter a headline (20 words at most). The Analyzer looks for words with Emotional Marketing Value (EMV). A Higher score is better.

The headline to this post has a 50% EMV. Here are a few other possible headlines and their scores:

  • "Here's how you can write winning headlines" (my first draft): 14.29%
  • "You'll love this easy headline tool": 50%
  • "Influence your donors with great headlines": 16.67%
  • "Boost your headlines with the click of a mouse": 11.11%

Give it a try.

Thanks to Make Marketing History for the tip.


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some headlines I tried:

give today or 100 kittens die - 16.67%
give today or 100 puppies die - 33.33%

I hope this at least puts to rest the argument over whether puppies or kittens are more appealing!

Tweaking your headline, I got "Easy headline mastery" for 66.67%.

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