And with sites like Facebook and Twitter, where the messages you send to your community are both short and sweet, headlines become ever more vital.

The better your headline…

• The better your chances of driving your readers back to your website.
• The better your chances of having others in your community spread the word about you and your school.
• The better your chances of attracting new students to you school.

If you need help writing great headlines, then I’ve got a special gift for you today. My friend Chris Garrett has just released a free report containing 102 killer headlines for use in social media.

Writing headlines is one of the parts about social media many people struggle with. So, to help you with the dreaded “blank screen of doom” here are 102 tried and tested social media headline templates thanks to Chris Garrett!

He published the 102 headlines for free, you can download the pdf for it here, or read on!

Get What You Want (Health, Wealth, Relationships, Time and Lifestyle)

1.  10 Money/Time Saving Tips for ______
2.  The Secret of Getting the Best Price for Your _______
3.  How to Find the Best _____ Deals on the Web
4.  Top Gadgets for _____
5.  Are _____ Worth the Money?
6.  Everything You Need to Know About Getting Cheaper _____
7.  Top 10 Tips For Hassle Free ______
8.  Best ____ For Under [Price]
9.  Unusual but Achievable ____
10. 5 Ways to Boost Your ____ Without Spending More _____
11.  Ways to ____ on a Budget
12.  5 Ways to _____ and Profit!
13.  21 Audacious and Creative _____ Ideas
14.  Who Else Wants to ____?
15.  Now You Can ____ for Free!
16.  How to Get _____ in Half the Time
17.  10 Stars and their ____
18.  _____ Life Styles of the Rich and Famous
19.  How to Look and Act ________
20. Now You Can Have Get More and Better ____ With Less Effort
21.  ______ like a Movie Star
22. 9 Ways You Can ____ Better Than You Deserve
23. How to ____ in 10 Seconds
24. Have a ____ You Can Be Proud Of
25. 21 _____ Conversation Tips
26. Finding Your Perfect _______
27. Plan a Perfect ______
28. What ____ Really Want
29. 7 Signs You Are/Can _______
30. Get ____ Now

Crystal Ball and History

31. The History of _______
32. How _____ Will Impact _____ in [Year]
33. _____ Then and Now
34. 40 Predictions on the Future of ____
35. The Modern Rules of ______
36. ___ Lessons from History
37. The _____ Story

Problems and Fears

38. Are _____ a Dying Breed?
39. How to Beat the Fear of _____
40. 10 ____ Scams and How to Avoid Them
41.  How Secure Are Your _____?
42. 7 Most Frightening ____
43. Top 10 Scary _____ Facts
44. Outrageous _____ and How they Could Impact You
45. Get Rid of Your _____ Once and For All
46. Could Your ______ be a ________?
47. What Your ____ is Not Telling You About _______
48. Beware ______ and How to Spot them
49. 10 Good Ways NOT to ______
50. How to Safely _______
51. The Unseen/Biggest Dangers of _____
52. ______ Do’s and Don’ts
53. 21 Ways to Screw Up _____
54. 10 Reasons Not to _____
55. 7 _____ Danger Signs
56. 7 things _____ Should Never Do

Fact, Fiction, Secrets, Truth and Lies

57.  What Everyone Ought to Know about ______
58. ____ Personality Test: What Your ____ Says About You
59.  _____ Lies and How to Spot them
60. _____ Facts and Myths
61.  The Real Truth About ______
62. 21 Secrets the _____ Experts Don’t Want You to Know
63. 101 Most Popular _____ Myths
64. 10 ______ Facts You Need to Know
65.  The Secret of Successful _____
66. Little Known Ways to _____
67. Truth and Lies in _____
68. All You Need to Know about _______
69. 10 Lies We Tell Our _______
70. 101 things Not to tell _______
71.  Revealed: Why _____
72. How to Spot a Fake ______

How-To Tricks of the Trade

73.  When is it Smarter to ____ or ____?
74.  Little Known Ways to ________
75.  10 Reasons it’s Better to ______
76.  How to Plan the Ultimate _____
77.  How to _____ Like a _____
78.  ____ Jobs You Can Do Yourself
79.  Here is a Method That is Helping _____ to _____
80. Here’s a Quick Way to _______
81. 7 Creative Ways to ______
82. How to be a _______
83. 9 Surprising Things You Can _____
84. _____ Like an Expert in 10 Easy Steps
85. 21 Expert ____ Tips
86. 5 Reasons You Should ______

Best and Worst

87. Top 10 Worlds Cheapest/Best/Most Expensive _____
88. The Worlds Best _____ You Can Actually Afford to Buy
89. The Worlds Worst Ever _____
90. The World’s Most Unusual _____
91.  Funniest ______ Stories
92. Sexiest _______ in the World
93. The Top 10 Best and Worst _____ in the World
94. Top 19 Most ____ Friendly ____
95. 100 Useful or Beautiful ____
96. 5 Reasons _____ is Better than ______
97. The Worlds Top 10 Most Important ______
98. Top 20 Clips About _____ in Films and Television
99. 10 ____ We Don’t Want to See ____
100. 21 Most Hilarious _____
101.  The Worlds Worst _____ Advice
102. 10 Reasons ____ is the Worst _____

Social Media for Business

Social media for business did not just grow slowly over time, it literally burst on the Internet with a huge following and undertaking. Today, if your business, especially an online business is not using social media and networking, you are missing out on tons of traffic that could be sent to your site. This extra traffic ultimately means more sales! The question is why would you not want to use social media to boost your business?

If you have an online business, then you need all the exposure you can get to attract more customers. Go to Facebook, and search for any online business you can think of, you will find a presence there. One of the largest online retailers, Amazon.com has a Facebook page, with over 140,000 people who like their page. Why does such a large business need social networking? HELLO, they are smart and use every avenue available to them.  Another reason they stay on top!

Do yourself a favor and check out some of the businesses in your field that are on the social media sites. Look at how they structure their pages. Of course they have a link to their main website. Someone from the company posts updates, such as sales, special promos, and adds a bit of fun in with it. The important thing to remember about any of the social media sites is it is an avenue to get people back to your website to buy products. However, you can’t just have a sales page because this would no doubt turn people off. You want to get your advertising across in a fun way, but still post comments that are purely entertaining or informational and have nothing to do with selling.

Leave a Positive Footprint!

Finally, always keep everything you write on any of the social media websites positive.  Never knock your competitors because this leaves a bad taste in people’s mouths. Check your social media sites daily or hand the task to someone else so you can always address personal responses. Never post gloomy messages and stay clear of politics or religion (unless your business deals with one or the other) because this will surely begin online arguing.

Social media is here to stay, use it to your advantage to boost your online business!

The last time I checked, the more clients a business had, the more money they made. And money (correct me if I’m wrong) is a good thing. We all need it in order to keep doing our jobs… and we all need it in order to survive.

So, if you understand that more money can come as the result of having more clients in your business, the question then becomes, “How do you attract more clients?”

Based on my experiences, the best way to do this is through the creation of social proof.

Social proof is something one creates in order to prove to others that what he or she says or does is worth paying attention to. In short, it’s a way of building yourself up so that you can sway the actions of a large group of people.

The principle behind social proof is that since most people make the assumption that the people surrounding them possess more knowledge about a particular situation than they do, they will deem the behavior of others as more appropriate or better informed… and therefore, follow in the footsteps of those around them.

Social proof gets people talking about brands. Social proof convinces people to buy a particular product. And social proof sways clients to buy from one business and not another.

The more social proof your business has, the greater your chances of attracting new clients.

In order to attract more clients and make more money, however, you need to create an ever-increasing amount of social proof around your business.

Need more money? Get more clients.

Need more clients? Create social proof.

If you can create enough social proof, you’ll have clients begging to buy from your business. With enough social proof you’ll have clients clamoring to your business.

Social proof is powerful.

If you understand this, you’re on the right track! But the question then becomes, “How do you create social proof within your community?”

One way to do it is through the use of SOCIAL MEDIA.

What you may not realize about social media sites like Facebook and Twitter is that not only are these tools an excellent way of communicating with the citizens in your community… but sites such as these are also one of the best (and fastest) ways of building social proof.

To build social proof with social media, you need to do three things.

1) Increase your follower counts. The more people you have following you on Twitter, subscribing to your RSS feeds, or becoming a fan of yours on Facebook, the more important your business will seem.

2) Get your business’s message to spread online. The more your business’s content is Re-Tweeted, emailed back and forth, voted on, Digged, or StumbledUpon, the more “popular” your organization becomes.

3) Have people talking about your business in the real world. When the story you spread about your business is so great that it has people talking about your institution outside of the World Wide Web, then you know you’ve succeeded in generating positive social proof.

The formula looks like this:

• Need more money? Get more clients.
• Need more clients? Create social proof.
• Need social proof? Harness the power of social media.

Social proof is created by continually proving that your business is an amazing place; that you’re constantly pushing the boundaries; and that your business is doing something special – something others will want to be a part of.

If you are not yet using social media in your business as a tool for communication, marketing, promotion, and social proof creation, now is the time to begin!

Social proof doesn’t just pop up over night. It takes time to build and grow. The longer you wait to get started, the longer it’s going to take before your community starts talking about you and your incredible institution.

What are you waiting for? There couldn’t be a better time to harness the power of social proof through the use of social media!

Start creating your Socia Proof before your competition does!