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Watch These 62 Minutes To Fix Your Useless Website (Harsh but true)

What to study

Identity & Self-Relevance

  • Useless is a hard word aimed at something the viewer built and quietly worries about.
  • That sting is the click.
  • The blurred screen lets you imagine your own site under the arrow, and sixty-two minutes puts a fixed price on fixing it.
How the packaging works
Title

The title insults the viewer's website and prices the fix at sixty-two minutes.

Thumbnail

The image points a bold arrow at a blurred site so the viewer fills in their own.

Remix this

When you critique work your audience owns, blur the example. A sharp screenshot belongs to someone else, but a blurred one becomes the viewer's own site in their head.

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The transferable lesson

Blur the example so viewers see their own work

NicheGeneral TechnologyWeb Design
Video formatHow-to / Tutorial
Click driverIdentity & Self-RelevanceCuriosity GapDesired Outcome
Visual signalArrow

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