Content Marketing: How to Write Content For Online Use – Part 3 of 5

By Cathy Moran, Certified Bankruptcy Specialist, Mountain View, CA

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You’ve got a topic. You’ve got a place to publish it. All that remains is to write it well for the web.

Heads up: the web requires a different writing style than the style we employ in our practices.

Why?

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