Libraries - Believe it or not, libraries still exist and are going string. In fact, there are dozens of libraries in just about every major cities, and most towns have at least one. Even town where I grew up, Lake Arrowhead, California, had a small public library.

Libraries are great places to get ideas for articles. I like to just visit and wander up and down isles, looking at titles, occasionally opening a book and flipping through pages. It's rare that I don't walk away with at least one or two ideas which turn directly into articles.

Botanical Gardens - A few miles from my house is one of best places on planet - Huntington Library. This is an awesome collection of art museums and displays which is not equaled anywhere in world (at least in my humble opinion). One of things that makes this magical place even more enjoyable is surrounding botanical gardens.

The library gardens are divided up into different habitats, duplicating most of major environments of planet. I've spent many enjoyable hours wandering through place, just looking at plants and environments, getting dozens and dozens of article ideas.

Something about gardens relaxes my mind and causes thinking process to become calmer and more organized. Ideas just seem to float up to surface, waiting for me to just pluck them up and convert them into articles.

Since you as reader and marketer can be from any one of a million different business categories, I will list several different possible formulas and hopefully finding one that applies to you. If you cannot find one that applies directly to your business, they may still help in your "Headline Writing Skills".

Although having a successful headline is 75% of your goal, you still must have good copy to go with it. But today we are focusing on headline portion. If you don't have a killer headline, your copy, no matter how good or bad, will never be seen.

Headlines are used to get a direct response from your reader. You are trying to invoke a "snake bite" like reaction. You either grab them or you don't. In writing direct response Headlines you are not trying to build a relationship or bond with your reader. You want their attention no matter how much their brain is saying to their eyes, "don't stop", you must beat brain at it's own game. You must say it that much louder and be that much more convincing, "STOP", "LOOK AT ME"!

Ok, I'm going to give you some well known "eye stopping" headline techniques.

1) Power Words

For a reference list of best Power Words check