majiayu000 Headline Options Skill
The headline does 80% of the work — most people read it and decide. This skill generates a range of headlines across proven formulas (so you're not betting on one), scores them for clarity and specificity (the two things that actually drive clicks), and recommends the strongest — for a landing page, blog post, email subject, ad, or video title.
Required Inputs
Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:
- What it's for — landing-page H1, blog title, email subject, ad headline, YouTube title? (changes length + style).
- The subject — the product/post/offer and its single biggest benefit or hook.
- Audience — who reads it, and the words they'd use.
- Any constraint — character limit (subject lines, ad fields), tone, banned claims.
Output Format
Headlines: [subject] — for [where it's used]
Options by formula (10–15 total), grouped:
- Benefit — the outcome, stated plainly ("Ship your roadmap in an afternoon")
- How-to — ("How to cut churn without discounting")
- Number / list — ("7 ways teams lose activation")
- Question — ("Still building decks by hand?")
- Curiosity / pattern-interrupt — (a gap that demands the click, without clickbait)
- Social proof / authority — ("How 5,000 teams onboard faster")
Score each on Clarity and Specificity (1–5), since vague + clever loses to clear + specific:
| Headline | Formula | Clarity | Specific | Note |
|---|
Top 3 picks — the strongest, with one line each on why, and which to A/B first.
If subject-line / limited — flag any that exceed the character budget.
Quality Checks
- 10+ options spanning multiple distinct formulas (not variations of one)
- Each scored on clarity and specificity, not cleverness
- Top picks are recommended with reasoning + an A/B suggestion
- Options use the audience's language and the real benefit
- Character limits respected where the medium demands it
Anti-Patterns
- Do not favour clever over clear — a confusing headline isn't read twice; clarity wins
- Do not write clickbait the content can't pay off — the bounce destroys trust and SEO
- Do not give one-formula variations — the value is the spread to test
- Do not stay vague — "Transform your workflow" says nothing; name the specific outcome
- Do not ignore the medium's limit — a truncated subject line is a wasted headline
Based On
Headline-writing practice (Ogilvy, Advertising's clarity-over-cleverness, the 4 U's) + formula-driven ideation and A/B discipline.