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Four ways a listicle helps your message

Four ways a listicle helps your message

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Four ways a listicle helps your message

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- [Instructor] Five ways to effortlessly clean the bathroom. Seven ways to cook a hamburger. 36 ways to water your houseplants. A listicle is one of these lists turned into an article format. Listicles are everywhere, with good reason. These articles are quick and easy to read, easy to scan, frequently entertaining, although they don't have to be, and they have a great hook for the reader. The listicle format has a pretty standard formula. And that formula is usually comprised of the following. First of all, a fun title or a fun headline for the whole listicle that will draw the reader in; and usually, there's a number in it. Second, a brief introduction; just a few sentences to set the tone for the article. Is it going to be sarcastic or funny or serious? And then, finally, you'll have all of the individual list items as promised from the headline. Each list item, then, has its own special formula, and that usually consists of the following. First of all, its own headline. That's the…

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