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Morning, Inbox Hackers. You can never have too many swipeable headlines in your toolbelt, so I’m handing off a nice pile of juiced-up headlines to you today. March is one of the best times of year for attention-snatching headlines, as we’ll see in a moment. 

And then we’ll get into This Week’s Marketing Wrap-Up.

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Top Headlines You Can Swipe, Tweak, & Use Right Away

If you’ve been reading Inbox Hacking for a while, you know I love using ESPN’s headlines as a guide for adding punch to any type of headline. Sports headlines naturally have action packed into them. Marketers can use that energy. 

See the following 7 March Madness headlines to see what I mean. And try hand-writing them (pen and paper) to get a feel for why these headlines move people to click and read the articles. 

1. Cooper Flagg rocks the rim on crowd-pleasing alley-oop in dominant win over Baylor

2. Temira Poindexter's overtime 3 buries Kentucky

3. 'Cooking' Duke rolls past Baylor into Sweet 16

4. Arizona hangs on late to top Oregon in nail-biter

5. Amari Williams gets block, dunk for UK in electric sequence

6. Talaysia Cooper cashes much-needed 3 for Tennessee

7. Delrecco Gillespie denies Stanford Cardinal with swat

When’s the last time you used any of those power-words in your headlines? Ones like:

• Denies

• Swats

• Cashes

• Buries

• Nail-biter

If you think you can’t use power-words like that in whatever arena you're doing marketing for, think again. Or think harder - after a beer.

The point is to “stop the scroll” or get people fired up about what are sometimes not-so-thrilling topics. Headlines and power-words like the ones above are good ways to grab attention and motivate folks to read your article or watch your video. 

Another quick headline tip is to hand-write (pen and paper) a page out of a Jack Reacher novel, which has momentum packed into every sentence according to this copywriting podcast where I got the tip. 

Now, before we get to the weekly Wrap-Up, I’ll drop a few more swipeable headlines you can use to spark ideas for improving your headlines. These are non-sports examples…

1. The Power Of Analogies (Part 2)- How To Use Everyday Life To Create Stunning Analogies

2. 26 cheap Amazon swimsuits that won’t fall apart. Trust us, we tried them

3. Nerds have found cure for America's loneliness epidemic…

4. Using Drones for Peeping, Burglaries On Rise: “It’s Gotten Dramatically Worse”

Number one comes from Psychotactics, a great place to study every headline on the site. 

Moving on to…

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Shane McLendon - Copy Kingpin

“Don’t write a headline you wouldn’t say when talking to a friend. No one in history ever uttered, ‘Woodley, defense propel Dolphins past NY.’” ~James Barger, sports editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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