Peopleized.com Interviews For Personal Branding
Posted by Mert Erkal on Oct 16, 2007 in Social Networking | 3 commentsAlmost every blogger needs some kind of written biography. This will not only provide information to your target audience about what you do, but also who you are.
This is especially crucial for your personal branding during the early stages. If you don’t tell your first time visitors who you are and how much you know about blogging, then why should they bother themselves for reading you.
I know how difficult it is to write about yourself. Quite often i start writing my own biography and then give up after the first few sentences. I don’t know whether it is because of some sort of writer’s block. But writing my own biography has always been a nightmare for me.
I thought i found an easy solution to this a year ago. If i interview myself as if i interview someone, then i thought i could overcome this problem. Then i started asking some great interview questions to myself, and answered them. I thought it would be a piece of cake for me to collect all the answers and then write an attractive biography of me.
But i failed. Why ? Because my questions were usually pointing my strengths and positive sides. In the end, the outcome was looking like a press release of a marketing campaign. My mom was asking the questions, and my dad was answering them on behalf of me. How objective can they be when their son is concerned ?
How did i solve this problem ?
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