How to Quit Your Job and Fire Your Boss

Pretty eye-catching title, isn’t it? If you want to quit your job and fire your boss, you can do it. If you’re an online marketer, you can do it by grabbing the eyes of people online. If you want to grab the attention of people who may buy your products and earn you money, these kinds of titles can help you because you’ll stand out in the crowd.

The very best thing you can do when you’re writing blog posts, articles, sales letters, or something else that you want people to read is to grab their attention.

After the headline grabs them you need to pique their curiosity in the first paragraph or so and then hold their attention straight through until the punchline which is the call to action that compels readers  to buy from you.

Tips for Better Headlines

• Practise writing headlines regularly.
• Scan headlines on well known blogs and websites to see what techniques grab your attention
• Rewrite headlines you find so that you make them better

Tips for Holding the Attention of the Reader

How do you hold the attention of an attention deficit disordered reader? (The net is like that…it creates lack of focus because often too many things are going on and the user is trying to pack as much info vacuuming as possible into the few minutes they’re scanning for something that interests them):

• Write short paragraphs
• Subheadings
• bullets / lists
• Make the copy scannable
• Be succinct!
  

How to be More Succinct

Set word count levels for yourself. When you review your drafts, trim them. Practise with micro blogging sites. Micro blogging is a great way to practise succinctness because you generally have 140 characters to say what you need to say so you need to be concise and brief.  Write tight and avoid the active voice

Anything you can do to be effective in copywriting can result in your being successful enough to actually fire your boss!