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#2: The Content Prompt That Hooks and Holds

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Fred Ferguson (GeezerWise)
Aug 20, 2025
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The Attention Span Problem

Readers skim like houseflies. They scroll, bounce, and drop a 'TL;DR' as if it’s a badge of honor. If you don’t hook fast, you don’t hook at all.

The Fix: The Skimmable Hooks Prompt…

'Rewrite this to grab attention in the first 2 sentences. Make it snappy, skimmable, and impossible to ignore.'

Example

Before: Autoresponders are aut…

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