Unlock the million-dollar headline in your brain!

Original title: Can you write a better headline than me?

I shouldn't have told him I was doing this challenge...

Challenge Winner: David “Doc” Polczynski

Dave just took down his long-standing website, or I’d link you to him. He’s slammed busy right now with copy work anyway, so if you reached him–you’d only get to chat him up for the fun of it… and I can tell you, it’s fun.

For the record, no one used the topic of the post to unravel the secret to the challenge, and so (I’m about to sound smug) no one actually beat my original.

Not even close. Though I did get some “pleasant surprise” entries.

I’m busy for a few days writing a white paper on “mobile app development platforms” for a very cool Denver web lab, so you’ll have to be patient, but I promise… by week’s end, I will post a follow-up. I plan to share in detail what makes for the perfect headline/title for this post. I’ve had a long list of alternates myself, used in various places on the web–I will review those, plus all the challenge entries, and play coach as best I can. If you entered a headline, you will get an email alert (manually, I still don’t do lists).

Thanks to all who visited, especially you folks who played the game. Congrats again to Dave! You can link directly to the original challenge post here. Please note…

This challenge is expired.