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7 Examples of What Honest “Clickbait” Articles Would Look Like
#1 — This is how I made $100k and you can too
The typical successful online writer or blogger has this uncanny ability to create a whole article of advice and wisdom out of absolutely nothing.
Their core skill, however, lies in being able to pick that one thing that the reader will definitely want to know more about. That one thing is typically a “shortcut” to something — because if there’s one thing we like more than anything as humans is for someone else to do the hard yards for us.
In there lies the easily exploitable trait that every clickbaity writer capitalizes on. However, if these articles were ever honest to the reader and not “dreamsellers,” here is what they’d actually read like.
#1 — This is How I made $100k Last Year and You Can too
I studied my behind off to get into a good college, got a degree, and landed a job with a company that was ready to pay me that kind of money, or I worked my way through years of earning a lot less until my experience commanded that sort of money.
#2 — The Easiest Way to Lose Fat Noone is Talking About
Burn more than you eat. So control yourself next time you have the urge to grab that extra-cheese burger or that delicious cupcake and remember that joining a gym doesn’t mean paying the monthly subscription, but actually showing up at the damn place and putting in some physical exercise.
#3 — The Best Advice I’ve Ever Heard from a Billionaire
Any advice from a billionaire is a set of words that sound like pure wisdom just because the person saying it has more digits in their bank account than you can count because no billionaire got where they did just to give away their secret for the world to simply emulate their approach, and if they did give it away, it is 99.9% likely that you won’t be able to repeat the same.
