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One Unexpected Word Change That Makes Your Copy More Powerful

One Unexpected Word Change That Makes Your Copy More Powerful

You spend an hour on a subject line, then watch it sit unopened. The gap between a headline that gets read and one that gets ignored is often smaller than you think, sometimes a single word. One well known story shows a change in verb tense nearly tripling response, with nothing else touched. The same small shift works on whatever you are writing this week, and it costs you nothing but a second look.