{"id":2302,"date":"2010-03-31T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/03\/throw-away-lines\/"},"modified":"2010-03-31T15:23:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T20:23:02","slug":"throw-away-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/03\/throw-away-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Throw Away Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a sales ad today that started with this line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Are you a career-minded salesperson\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What does that mean?\u00a0 I bet if I asked 10 people I would get 10 different answers.\u00a0 I call sentences like this \u201cthrow away lines\u201d because they do nothing for the ad.\u00a0 It is vitally important when writing ads to only include sentences that describe the position and the type of person who will excel within it.<\/p>\n<p>Anything else is wasted space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a sales ad today that started with this line: Are you a career-minded salesperson\u2026 What does that mean?\u00a0 I bet if I asked 10 people I would get 10 different answers.\u00a0 I call sentences like this \u201cthrow away lines\u201d because they do nothing for the ad.\u00a0 It is vitally important when writing ads to only include sentences that describe the position and the type of person who will excel within it. Anything else is wasted space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[530,1748,1011,1552,472,38,1553],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-B8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->