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Session #16
Above-the-Fold Energy: How to engage the prospect’s mind with a carefully crafted opening

In Session #16, Flint McGlaughlin teaches how to craft the opening paragraph to complement your sub-headline.

Here are some of the most important insights from this class:

  • Foster conclusions with specific, quantifiable facts.
  • The headline is the molecular unit of marketing.
  • The problem you address with your marketing copy must be (1) Relevant, (2) Important, (3) and Urgent.
  • Direct the eye-path with six elements: Position, Size, Color, Motion, Shape, and Sound.
  • The Marketer needs meaningful work and meaningful relationships.

You can watch the full video above, or jump ahead to these key takeaways:

  • 0:00 Above-the-Fold Energy: How to engage the prospect’s mind with a carefully crafted opening.
  • 2:11 Four powerful types of sub-headlines.
  • 4:03 Five critical questions we may use to discipline the data.
  • 4:10 You can learn, and you can help. The community voted for a headline – “Get a beautiful, handcrafted gift and rescue a family from poverty” and sub-headline “Over 8,000 artisans have been lifted out of poverty by people like you.” Now you can develop a three-sentence paragraph to complement the Ten by Three sub-headline written by your peers and put it in the YouTube comments for this video. This practice will help your copywriting while also helping a worthy nonprofit. Flint will respond to your ideas and take the best paragraph along with the best sub-headline and best headline and put it on the Ten by Three website.
  • 4:50 Learn how to craft the opening paragraph that compliments your sub-headline

To get immediate help with your marketing challenges, just contact Flint and his team: F.McGlaughlin@MECLABS.com.

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