You know, it’s really funny. It almost doesn’t matter how good your article is. If you have a subject line that just lays there like a rock at the bottom of a lake, nobody is going to read your wonderful article. Sad but true. So, it is the hope of this article, and the author who wrote it, that by the time you are done reading this, you will have a pretty good understanding of how to come up with that killer subject line that will just make people want to read your article.

Did you ever watch the teasers before the evening news, especially Fox after an episode of 24 on Monday night? They almost always have one that goes something like this…

“Could this be the end of Jack Bauer?”

What do you think that does? It makes people want to watch the news. I mean, heaven forbid that the show did away with its beloved star. So teaser subjects like that make people watch an hour of news that they most likely wouldn’t have watched. And trust me, it’s a full hour because you know that story is coming pretty close to the end of the broadcast. That’s called smart advertising.

Well, that’s what your article subject line has to do. It has to be smart. It has to make people want to open up your article and read what’s inside. Otherwise, all the great writing in the world is just going to go to waste.

So, how do you come up with a killer subject line, and more importantly, what subject lines do you want to avoid at all costs? Well, I’m going to give you a couple of examples using different topics so you can see that this trick will work for just about any subject.

Let’s take the subject of “acne” and see what we can do with a bland boring subject line.

Let’s say you want to write an article on the causes of acne. Well, you can play it safe and come up with a subject something like “The Causes Of Acne.” Now, maybe somebody will actually read that article if they really want to know what causes acne. But what if you came out with a subject like this?

“Why You’ve Got That Zit In The Middle Of Your Forehead.”

It’s amusing, it’s funny and it will catch people’s attention. I would be willing to bet that you’ll get more people reading that subject and that article, even if it isn’t as well written, than the one before it. Why? Because it’s human nature to look for the interesting and the different.

Let’s take the subject of, well, of writing articles. Let’s take this very one.

I could have made a subject that read, “How To Write Subject Lines For Articles.” I mean it does say what the article is going to talk about, but by using the subject line “Writing Killer Article Subject Lines”, it made it just a little more interesting and made you more likely to read it.

Writing a killer subject line for your article is not hard. All it takes is a little imagination and a few minutes of thought.

Try it sometime. You’ll be surprised what you can come up with.

To YOUR Writing Success,

Steven Wagenheim
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