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how to work less (and earn more)

What to study

Desired Outcome

  • The sunlit kitchen, the headphones and the unhurried posture are the promise made visible, a working life that feels calm.
  • The scene sells it before any reading happens.
  • The text, though, repeats the title's opening words, when the earn more half was sitting there unused.
How the packaging works
Title

The title pairs the trade every builder wants, less work for more money.

Thumbnail

The thumbnail stages the calm life while its text repeats half the title.

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When your promise is a feeling, stage the feeling and let the scene do the talking. Then give the text the half of the promise the image cannot show, the money in this case.

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The transferable lesson

Stage the feeling, let text carry the other half

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