Some Useful Tips to Improve Your Bio Online and Make You Stand-out
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econd to the “tell me about 1. Share your backstory yourself question,” writing a Human beings are a curious lot; whether we are reading personal bio has to be the most a magazine or book, we want to know the backstory of our characters. We want to know Where did it all start? challenging thing. Finding something By sharing glimpses of your backstory and milestones, to say about ourselves is the bane of the reader connects to you personally. They get to feel existence; it doesn’t matter whether your passion and commitment for what you do. it’s for your online dating profile or our networking platforms. “Jenny Gonzales has been in the real estate industry since 1998. Her career started at a company that did In theory, we should have tons of Real Estate and Loans. After six months of mastering that things to say about ourselves; I mean, craft-loans (She’s a numbers person), she drove straight we spend every waking moment with into Real Estate….” ourselves. The reality, however, is finding things about yourself to fill 2. Make it authentic in your bio is an uphill task. And just Second to a bad bio is an inauthentic bio—one that in case you are among the few who sounds very robotic. Short biographies are often dull, and have hacked writing a bio, are you perhaps it is word restriction or structured sentences. sure it’s interesting? As much as it is hard to get all your achievements or
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A bio is like a snapshot of your personality, representing who you are and what you have achieved. Considering that it only receives microseconds of attention online, you want it to stand out!
qualities in there, remember to bring the person through the words—be yourself! Have you ever written a bio, and when you read it, it didn’t sound like you that it was painfully flat?
