15 Reasons Your Title with Numbers Sucks

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s no joy in writing or reading that crap, just the endless gobbling greed that needs to get eyes and more eyes and more eyes on the content in order to feed your vain sense of self-importance. That is not enough to keep actual readers subscribing and eventually the whole structure is going to collapse.</p><p id="52bb">Is that what you want?</p><p id="fc1f">At any rate, this seems like a good time to tell you that there will not be fifteen of anything in this article. There may not even be two or three. We’ll wing it and see what works. But numbers won’t be involved.</p><p id="1db1">However, I did click on your article so you now have three, count ’em, three sentences to win me over. Can you do it? I’m thinking the odds are low because:</p><ul><li>Those numbers in your title? A dead giveaway that you’re going to bore the bejesus out of me.</li><li>And what about that image? You do realize <a href="https://readmedium.com/dont-shortchange-yourself-a3e9a7c7a9c2">that free stock photo</a> is so popular that statistically, a third of Medium writers have used it and another quarter has used it more than <i>once</i>!</li><li>No one wants to read how much you earned in your first month on Medium nor your brilliant ideas on how we can do the same (you’re losing me here, time to consider switching gears to bring in <a href="https://readmedium.com/am-i-just-a-jealous-small-minded-jerk-

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3ec3b91fbdc">something <i>interesting</i> to read</a>, k?).</li><li>Seeing that you went and used the words “hack” and “tips” in the first sentence don’t bode well for me making it to Sentence #4.</li><li>Oh geeze Louise, would you look at this? Numbers again. This time it’s 76 quotes by famous people that will transform my life. Not mine, Buttercup. Un-book mark the Famous Quotes page and let’s consider what constitutes engaging, entertaining, interesting stuff to read.</li></ul><p id="c42c">K?</p><p id="5882">I’ll make it easy for you and for me.</p><div id="a226" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/let-me-look-in-your-windows-ddcd2d69a2e5"> <div> <div> <h2>Let Me Look in Your Windows</h2> <div><h3>And I’ll read every beautiful word</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*5ldTJnX_kCxyMnSj3oAZiw.png)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><p id="dd98">And, just so we’re clear. I didn’t even bother with your third sentence. You lost me at two and, yes, I lied again.</p><p id="aa7b">Numbers were involved. Do better.</p><p id="4260"><i>© Remington Write 2020. All Rights Reserved.</i></p></article></body>

You have exactly three sentences to win me over

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Within your first twenty-eight minutes on this platform, you’re going to see some trends and then you’re going, hey!, I can do that, too (pro tip: yes, you can but really you shouldn’t).

Hey, you do you.

If trotting out the same old, tired, stale, re-re-repeated “advice” is what gets you out of bed in the morning, who am I to tell you to stay in bed? If crowing about having your story featured in Human Parts (WTF?!) and triple curated gives you a quiet sense of superiority, which we all love feeling btw, again it’s not my intention to shame you.

I lie.

This entire piece is to shame you and your ilk. You’re turning this platform into an unreadable morass of garbage that has only one objective: to fatten the wallets and egos of the “writers”. Eventually, the only “readers” will be those, like yourself, who are eager to suck this baby dry. There’s no joy in writing or reading that crap, just the endless gobbling greed that needs to get eyes and more eyes and more eyes on the content in order to feed your vain sense of self-importance. That is not enough to keep actual readers subscribing and eventually the whole structure is going to collapse.

Is that what you want?

At any rate, this seems like a good time to tell you that there will not be fifteen of anything in this article. There may not even be two or three. We’ll wing it and see what works. But numbers won’t be involved.

However, I did click on your article so you now have three, count ’em, three sentences to win me over. Can you do it? I’m thinking the odds are low because:

Those numbers in your title? A dead giveaway that you’re going to bore the bejesus out of me.

And what about that image? You do realize that free stock photo is so popular that statistically, a third of Medium writers have used it and another quarter has used it more than once!

No one wants to read how much you earned in your first month on Medium nor your brilliant ideas on how we can do the same (you’re losing me here, time to consider switching gears to bring in something interesting to read, k?).

Seeing that you went and used the words “hack” and “tips” in the first sentence don’t bode well for me making it to Sentence #4.

Oh geeze Louise, would you look at this? Numbers again. This time it’s 76 quotes by famous people that will transform my life. Not mine, Buttercup. Un-book mark the Famous Quotes page and let’s consider what constitutes engaging, entertaining, interesting stuff to read.

I’ll make it easy for you and for me.

And, just so we’re clear. I didn’t even bother with your third sentence. You lost me at two and, yes, I lied again.

Numbers were involved. Do better.