Are you looking for some solid tips and tricks on how to write a bio for your website’s ‘about’ page, your Facebook profile, your free report or e-book? This article will give you a number of great ideas and principles to work with when crafting a biography that will help build your brand authority while attracting more followers to your valuable content, your products, services, and your business opportunity.

Video is powerful when used at the right time and in the right way, but video is quick and people are not too interested in hearing your life story… When you learn how to write a bio that works, you can use it to spend more time telling your story and talk more about the good, the bad, and the ugly.

It is important to learn how to write a bio that will grab people’s attention. Luckily, most everyone is inherently selfish to some degree in the fact that most all of us are looking for ways to improve our life. People subconsciously think “what’s in this for me?” or “what can I get out of this?” within the first few seconds of landing on your page, so you will need to grab people’s attention and then keep it throughout. This is your bio but it should have an underlying feeling of value and benefit to your readers.

Learning how to write a bio starts with your opening statement.

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I lecture about writing to non-writers – hypnotists, numerologists, psychics, housewives, businessmen and women and people who often tell me that I should write about them because “they have had very interesting lives.” I start my talks with a question. The first question I always ask is, “Who wants to write their autobiography?” About three-quarters of all audiences raise their hands. My next question is, “Can you tell me who will buy your autobiography?” Generally, most of the hands go down, the audience looks uncomfortable and shoulders begin to shrug. That second question is the first question you should ask when considering writing in the area of (auto) biography.

People who get to write autobiographies, or have others write their biographies for them, are men and women who have done something really special in their lives. They were famous movie stars. They were national or international politicians. They were presidents and first ladies. They were incredible fashion designers. They built great dams and bridges. They were successful generals.

Even reaching a high status does not guarantee a biography. William Henry Harrison was only president for 31 days. He did nothing more as president than catch pneumonia at his inauguration and die. So even being president does not guarantee a biography. There are a kazillion generals in history but most of us can count the few we ever heard about without running out of digits. If you want to test that theory Google “Civil War Generals” and see how many there were and how many names you recognize. Even Custer probably would have been an ‘also served’ had he not had a last stand.

The first rule of (auto) biography is, “An (auto) biography is not about a person, it is about what a person did.” If Audrey Hepburn had been a housewife she would not have generated a biography no matter how gorgeous she was. It is possible that Katharine Hepburn would not have generated a biography without Spencer Tracy.

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Writing a memoir or biography of some great person in society is a huge task that should be considered carefully. The first thing to consider is that you should check your motives to find out from your inner core what are the reasons or rationale for wanting to write about the life of this person. A memoir or biography should be written only if you were affected profoundly by the person’s life. This is the primary motivation for wanting to write the biography or memoir. In this case even if you are not a professional or experienced writer you can still go ahead to produce the book. You should not be just a source to a professional writer who you will be interviewed about the life of that someone you know.

The world needs people who are just themselves as human beings not some professional. The world needs books written by people who are genuine – people who are writing from the heart instead of a professional writer who will, instead of concentrating on the truth, is concerned with language structure, syntax and morphology of words. A biography or memoir is more about thorough acquaintance with the person being written about than language dynamics.

You must be at absolute sympathy with the subject, and enthusiastically be devoted the project, that is the writing process itself. As no one can interpret a poet without poetic feeling and taste, or a philosopher without speculative talent, so no one can rightly comprehend and exhibit the life of another person without being in sympathy with that person.

So instead of just being a source for information to experienced biographer or memoir writer considers yourself to be up to the task of writing a memoir or biography of that person who you know closely and you know those characteristics that made him or her to be on top of human society.

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