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If your car hit a live electrical wire, would you know what to do? While driving through Gloucester, MA, our Meter Service Technician Joe G. saw a live wire across the roadway. A driver unknowingly ran over it, and the wire became tangled in their wheel axle. Joe immediately

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Why it worked

Opens with a question, so the reader starts answering before they have decided to read.
The opening line stands alone, so it reads completely before the post is expanded.
Written from experience rather than as advice, which is harder to argue with.
Short enough to read in full without expanding, which removes a step before the point lands.
Short sentences keep the pace up, so the reader never has to re-read a line.

The mechanics

Hook: Opens with a question
Structure: Hook → Landing
Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
Tone: corporate
Written for: Founders, marketers and operators

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