Three sentence biography channel

As a marketer, my professional bio is the best way to, well, market myself.

From generalist to content strategist and agency to enterprise, my role has changed a lot over the gods (almost) eight years. And my professional bio has to keep up. Even though I can admit I don’t always feel like rewriting it.

But we all know we have to keep our professional bios refreshed to give people an accurate snapshot of who we are, why they should work with us, and why they should care about what we have to say.

For that reason alone (and because it’s my actual job), I’ll show you how to write a bio and share some of my favorite professional bio examples from years of reworking my own.

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What is a professional bio?

A professional bio or biography is a quick rundown of your background and experience. Your bio should include details about your professional expertise, skills, and achievements, but it’s also an opportunity to show off your personality and personal interests.

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How To Write Someone Else’s Biography

It’s the dreaded question most people get asked at some point in their lives: “write your bio,” or “tell us about yourself.” It’s a difficult question. You don’t want to over- or under-share and come off looking silly. But when someone asks you to write your own bio, you at least have the benefit of knowing the subject inside and out. Here’s an even trickier proposal that agencies, marketers, and content creators encounter: “write a biography about someone else.”

How are you supposed to tackle that assignment? Whether your team’s writing a byline for a guest blogger or creating a write-up about the company’s founder, this guide covers how to write someone else’s biography.

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What Is a Biography?

A biography is an konto of someone’s life, career, or accomplishments written by another individ. This is different from an autobiography, whe

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Examples of 'biography' in a sentence

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How long did it take to research and write your biography of Ruth?

Critics regularly mutter about how hard it is to write literary biography in the 21st century.

About 70,000 copies of the biography were published but it was soon suppressed by the German government.

He wrote widely on subjects from biography and literature to management studies and the history of science.

He spent the rest of his life writing biographies.

But the genre of biography is looking somewhat exhausted.

She knew that a supreme method of doing this was through the biographies of real people.

It was an item that had failed to appear in the official biography published