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The Easy Way To Be Seen As A High-Performer

What to study

Expectation Violation

  • Work less and get promoted should not both be true.
  • That clash makes you stop.
  • The photo acts it out, feet up, coffee in hand, calm as anything.
  • The title softens it into a promise, the easy way to be seen as a high performer.
How the packaging works
Title

The title promises an easy route to being seen as a top performer.

Thumbnail

The relaxed pose with feet up acts out the work-less claim while the tweet card states it.

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When your advice breaks a rule your audience lives by, let the image act out the broken rule. A picture of someone doing the forbidden thing sells the claim harder than restating it in words.

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The transferable lesson

Let the image act out the rule you are breaking

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