The 100 Greatest Headlines Ever Written!!!!!!!!!!

The 100 Greatest Headlines Ever Written.

Great headlines capture our attention like (almost!) nothing else. We can be walking down the street, and a headline hits us in the face and sometimes stops us in our tracks. Headlines capture our attention. They grab our imagination, breaking our thoughts. But most of all they compel us to want to know MORE. Below are the 100 Greatest Headlines of All Time. It's an impressive list, with headlines from some of the classic advertisements from the 1960s until recent times. But I wouldn't be doing my bit unless I first made a clear link to making a succesful presentation! And my point is simple: it's worth giving some considered thought to the headline of your next presentation. Giving your presentation an interesting heading means that interested people are likely to turn up to hear you speak.

1. THE SECRET OF MAKING PEOPLE LIKE YOU

Almost $500,000 was spent profitably to run keyed ads displaying this headline. It drew many hundreds of thousands of readers into the body matter of a "people-mover" advertisement --- one which, by itself, built a big business. Pretty irresistible, isn't it?

2. A LITTLE MISTAKE THAT COST A FARMER $3,000 A YEAR

A sizable appropriation was spent successfully in farm magazines on this ad. Sometimes the negative idea of offsetting, reducing, or eliminating the "risk of loss" is even more attractive to the reader than the "prospect of gain."

As the great business executive Chauncey Depew once said, "I would not stay up all of one night to make $100; but I would stay up all of seven nights to keep from losing it." As Walter Norvath says in Six Successful Selling Techniques, "People will fight much harder to avoid losing something they already own than to gain something of greater value that they do not own." It is also true that they have the feeling that losses and waste can often be more easily retrieved than new profits can be gained.

What farmer could pass up reading the copy under such a headline --- to find out: "What was the mistake? Why was it 'little'? Am I making it? If it cost a farmer a loss of $3,000 a year, maybe it's costing me a lot more? Perhaps the copy will also tell me about other mistakes I might be making."

3. ADVICE TO WIVES WHOSE HUSBANDS DON'T SAVE MONEY --- BY A WIFE

The headline strength of the word "advice" has often been proven. Most people want it, regardless of whether or not they follow it. And the particular "ailment" referred to is common enough to interest a lot of readers. The "it happened to me" tag line, "by a wife," increases the desire to read the copy. (This ad far outpulled the advertiser's previous best ad, Get Rid of Money Worries.)

4. THE CHILD WHO WON THE HEARTS OF ALL

This was a key-result ad which proved spectacularly profitable. It appeared in women's magazines. The emotional-type copy described (and the photograph portrayed) the kind of little girl any parent would want their daughter to be. Laughing, rollicking, running forward with arms outstretched, right out of the ad and into the arms and heart of the reader.

5. ARE YOU EVER TONGUE-TIED AT A PARTY?

Pinpoints the myriads of self-conscious, inferiority-complexed wallflowers. "That's me! I want to read this ad; maybe it tells me exactly what to do about it."

As you go along, you will notice how many of these headlines are interrogative ones. They ask a question to which people want to read the answer. They excite curiosity and interest in the body matter which follows. They hit home --- cut through verbose indirectness. The best ones are challenges, which are difficult to ignore, cannot be dismissed with a quick no or yes and without further reading, are pertinent and relevant to the reader. Note how many of the ones included here measure up to these specifications.

 

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