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Your Headline Sucks And Your Thread Should be #Landfill

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Your headline is your first impression. Yours sucks.

You should take great care if you want to post anything to post something someone will want to read.

Here are some recent headlines of threads I never even read:

"Hello"

"New Here"

"Fastlane"

"Hi"

"New kid"

"Is this Fastlane?"

A month from now, if people are searching for your thread, how will they know if it is the right one if the search results give them a headline that is "Hello?"

Spend some time writing a headline that people would remember.

If it is your first post, you can be forgiven and we might even change it for you so that people read what you write. You get a newbie exemption.

Some of you headline criminal violators have been here a long time. It's lazy. Why bother posting if you can't muster up enough wit or interest in your own posts to make them memorable?

Next time you post, ask yourself this question :

"Is that a**hole moderator going to move this into the [HASHTAG]#landfill[/HASHTAG] if my headline sucks too badly?"

Because... he might.

Feel free to contribute to this thread by adding headline common violation offenses.
 
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I like this forum because the standards are set really high. You are required to think before you write. You are required to take action and not just dream (or "mental masturbation" as it is called here). You are required to continiously report with which actions you take, because people are going to pull up your thread months later and ask you to document your progress if there is no update.

This is why it is much better to hang out on this forum than in Facebook groups where there are more wantrepreneurs than entrepreneurs, and where people encourage each other to "follow their passion" without asking critical questions than can save a man from years of ruin and misery.

This forum might seem harsh to new people on here. But if you want to grow, this is the place to be.
 

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I am turned off by overly sensationalized headlines trying to be witty.

With progress threads being some of the biggest offenders.

Almost never click them reminds me of when I forget to turn on my adblock.
 

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"Blah blah blah click bait title"

Me - I guess I'll click on it to see what this a**hole has to say

"haha - now that I've got your attention from my super awesome title"

Me -

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Yea, and maybe we should make another post about some of the young people here who are so entitled and self-centered they don't know how to say "thank you" -- on a side note, a big Fastlane contributor actually PayPal'd a young forum user some money to help him out.... think he said "thank you!!!"???

Nope.
 
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Yea, and maybe we should make another post about some of the young people here who are so entitled and self-centered they don't know how to say "thank you" -- on a side note, a big Fastlane contributor actually PayPal'd a young forum user some money to help him out.... think he said "thank you!!!"???

Nope.

When people constantly ask "Fastlane"? it makes me think they didn't read MJ's book at all. He gave very specific descriptions in there of what constitutes as Fastlane.

But I flunked out of preschool so who am I to point fingers? :)
 

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This whole thread made me laugh out loud.



I'm anti-click bait with my headlines.

It must be from a background of paying for each click. No tyre-kickers please.
 

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This whole thread made me laugh out loud.

I'm anti-click bait with my headlines.

It must be from a background of paying for each click. No tyre-kickers please.
I think if your video thread was published by most mainstream media sites these days it would be "Andy Talks......And What He Says Will Make You Rip Your Clothes Off!"

or

"Andy's New Video Sweater Will Explode Your Sex Life"
 
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When people constantly ask "Fastlane"? it makes me think they didn't read MJ's book at all. He gave very specific descriptions in there of what constitutes as Fastlane.

But I flunked out of preschool so who am I to point fingers? :)
I didn't even go to preschool! So who am I to have any fingers?!
 
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Awesome video!!! Thank you for the laugh! :hilarious:

That's how I felt today when looking at YouTube videos on recording equipment, and the guy spends the first 10 minutes on Disney buying Star Wars and how to smash pumpkins with a chainsaw. WTF?!?!?! Another woman spent her first 10 minutes showing us how she did her hair and makeup before recording. Really?!?!? And this is my primary complaint about video learning - you never know what you're going to get, much less if it's going to answer your freakin' question.
 

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"Blah blah blah click bait title"

Me - I guess I'll click on it to see what this a**hole has to say

"haha - now that I've got your attention from my super awesome title"

Me -

fmc.gif

Very much. HA! THIS!


This one is always disappointing. I always think "oh look Lionel Richie has joined the forum" but it never is....

OR. Adele. You might never know.

This thread made me smile :). But good point.
 

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"Blah blah blah click bait title"

Me - I guess I'll click on it to see what this a**hole has to say

"haha - now that I've got your attention from my super awesome title"

Me -

fmc.gif



You know that if you mouse over the headline you can actually read the first few lines that read "click bait" right?
 
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I think if your video thread was published by most mainstream media sites these days it would be "Andy Talks......And What He Says Will Make You Rip Your Clothes Off!"

or

"Andy's New Video Sweater Will Explode Your Sex Life"
LMFAO I should make headlines like this "This thread is GUARANTEED to jingle your jangle" or "The secrets they DONT want you to know about armpits" or "Astonishing !!! ... See what the experts say about hopscotch" then have a regular poor written post about action i'll never take
 

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