Just Story It

In fact, the title makes often the difference if I read or not an article. We have so many sources of information that it has become impossible to read them all. That's why I think that this post is an important article that you should read too. [note Martin Gysler]

How you title your stories as you create your content, blogs, marketing materials and the like is critically important in order to get people to read your material. This post from fellow curator Martin Gysler helps us a lot in crafting compelling titles that promote readability and shareability. Thanks Martin for the article and your review below!

The 80/20 Value of Titles

Recently, Rand did one of the best Whiteboard Fridays I've seen in a while (I do watch all of them) about increasing the likelihood of your content going viral. He touches briefly upon the importance of your title for click through rate and sharability, but in this post I'd like to take a more in depth look at titles and how they help spread your content. (By the way, this is my first YouMoz - woohoo!)

In my opinion, the elements of writing click worthy titles deserve more attention. In the wonderful marketing book "Made To Stick", the Heath brothers note that any good news or editorial writer may spend 80% of their time crafting the title (or "lead") and then whatever time they have left on the body of the content.

For those familiar with 80/20, what this means is, the size of the title compared to the actual content (and time spent crafting it) disproportionately affects the success of that content. It's one small piece of text with a lot power!

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