Just Add a Smile and a Handshake: A Starter Guide to Writing Your Bio

By Endrea Kosven and Alandra T. Ortis

"Just Add a Smile and a Handshake" provides a step-by-step guide to writing a professional bio for business purposes. This motivational ebook provides a breakdown of the different formats, including the long-form and short-form bio. It is a handy reference guide for the novice and more advanced writer, and provides sample bios for the reader, each broken down in an easy-to-digest format.

In an up-beat, fun tone, "Just Add a Smile and a Handshake" will allow you to use your bio properly as a marketing tool and engaging first impression.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Apr 15, 2020
• ISBN: 9781098308513

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©2020 All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. eBook ISBN: 978-1-09830-851-3

Dedicated to Anderson, Rita, and Steven. Three great dogs who made our lives so much richer.

We live in a global neighborhood with many different customs, and in that spirit we want all our readers to know that we used the word handshake as a symbolic gesture of a friendly introduction, and not necessarily the physical action.

Contents

Foreword

What is a Bio?

Why Bio?

Getting Started

Bio Formats

Sample Bios

Conclusion

About WeWriteBios.com

Foreword

With the onset of the internet, a new frontier has been created, bringing an entirely new digital world into existence! This digital world has vast neighborhoods of business, niche, and dating websites, and includes social media, with platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

While all these sites may serve different purposes, they all require one crucial element to engage their readers: a bio.

We started noticing even the most experienced writer had difficulty writing his or her bio. They didn’t know what to include, what to leave out, and how to begin. The biggest challenge many seemed to encounter was how not to make their bio sound or look like a resume.

Our inspiration for writing this ebook is to help others by providing a good source of reference should they need it. In this ebook, you will find answers to questions such as:

Should I write the bio in first person or third person?

Why do they call it a bio and not an autobiography?

How long does the bio have to be?

How do I know what to include?

These are just a few common questions that we have encountered in our experience of writing bios. We understand that people want to know the rules to at least try to write their own bio. We say that affectionately because we as human beings have a built-in critic who is censoring what we are writing about ourselves.

This is not a character flaw! On the contrary, humility