Thursday, August 30, 2007

"Eat Dead Burnt Bodies"


I guess some people's "sick" is other people's "gifted." Anyway, the line didn't come from me.

I thought the Emotional Marketing Value Headline Generator might prove useful to fellow bloggers and others looking for a way to punch up post titles. Still, how any computer program could assign these words to the "Intellectual" category is beyond me--but I do understand how they'd appeal to people "in the fields of education, law, medicine, politics... "

It took me a couple tries to get my score over 50--I'd be curious to know what word sequence will beat 75, and wonder what a perfect 100 would look like. If anybody has the time...
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12 comments:

  1. Anonymous8/30/2007 10:25 AM

    hmmm ... first try got me a 75% ... off the top of my head I typed: "Car Wash at Macy's"

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  2. Unknown8/30/2007 10:28 AM

    How about 110%??

    Try putting THIS in...

    "You want premiums opportunities today Easy money Free computer Happy family New baby Lovely dreams We are always the solution"

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  3. Unknown8/30/2007 10:32 AM

    "Free" - 100%

    "You want me to feel you baby" - 100%

    "This opportunity sucks" - 100%

    "Iraq Golden Opportunity" - 166.67%

    And....

    "Opportunity, Opportunity, Opportunity" - 300%!

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  4. Anonymous8/30/2007 10:35 AM

    I got 125% with "Toddler Body Eats Bomb". At least for short headlines, it doesn't seem to attempt to find "emotional impact" in combinations of words, just in individual words. In a word--lame (incidentally, that's a 0% headline)

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  5. David Codrea8/30/2007 10:42 AM

    Well put ME to shame...I guess I can hang up the keyboard now and turn it over to you guys.

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  6. Anonymous8/30/2007 10:46 AM

    I figured they'd like it if I thought like a Marxist, so I put in "Great People's Victory" and hit 100% on the first try.

    And for comparison, most professional copywriters' headlines will have 30%-40% EMV Words in their headlines, while the most gifted copywriters will have 50%-75% EMV words in headlines, and devout Communists will have nearly 100% EMV words in their headlines.

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  7. Anonymous8/30/2007 11:54 AM

    It seems to favor The Only Ones

    Save Children = 0%

    Police Save Children = 33.33%

    Citizen Saves Children = 0%

    Armed Citizen Saves Children = 25%

    Armed Police Save Children = 50%

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  8. Anonymous8/30/2007 12:04 PM

    "God Hates You"

    Ready for the score?

    66.6%

    BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!

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  9. Anonymous8/30/2007 1:03 PM

    Robb,

    I HAD to try that.

    66.67%

    Spooky!

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  10. Jay8/30/2007 1:09 PM

    "Firearms Will Save You" - 75%

    "Guns Kill" - 0%

    "Anti-Christ Enthusiastically Endorses Hillary" - 75%

    "Firearms Owners Score High on Intelligence Tests" - 42.86%

    "Brady's Apologize and Proclaim 'We Were Wrong'" - 42.86%

    "Congress Knows What is Good For You" - 28.57%

    "Time Spent On Tests Like Cost American Companies Billions" - 40%

    "I should be producing income instead of screwing around" - 33.33%

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  11. Anonymous8/30/2007 4:35 PM

    "America" - 0%
    "Iran" - 100%
    "Iraq" - 200%

    "Police" - 100%
    "thief" - 100%

    "police eat dead bodies" - 100%
    "kids eat dead bodies" - 100%

    "Free Results" - 100%
    "Free Guns" - 50%

    My personal response to those is _quite_ different. As said: lame.

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  12. Anonymous8/31/2007 2:40 AM

    "In Soviet Amerika, emotional generators value YOU!"

    77.77%

    -Anonymous-

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