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HMRC Will Literally PAY YOU To Make These Investments

What to study

Expectation Violation

  • The tax office paying you flips everything you believe about HMRC, and the giant badge makes the unlikely source impossible to miss.
  • That reversal earns the click alone.
  • The image text then repeats the title's claim instead of adding the missing piece, which investments qualify.
How the packaging works
Title

The title makes the upside-down claim that the taxman pays you.

Thumbnail

The image holds up the HMRC badge but repeats the claim in text.

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When a trusted institution does the opposite of what people expect, make its badge the hero of the image. Spend your text on what the title has not said, never on saying it again.

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The transferable lesson

The institution's badge sells the reversal

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Click driverExpectation ViolationDesired OutcomeCuriosity Gap

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