How to Write a Short Sales Bio
A short sales bio is a great way for sales staff to have a succinct way to summarize their sales experience. It's a promotional tool, a way to keep connected to people with an eye toward making future sales. For example, a short sales bio can be used as a signature in email accounts. It's a method of spreading the word about your sales experience and history and can help to make future sales contacts. A short sales bio is often used also in promotional literature that an employer produces. In this sense, a short sales bio is a way of introducing you to the public and to other organizations.
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Instructions
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Take a notebook and pen and write a general essay about yourself and your sales experience. Try to write between 500 and 1000 words. Include your educational background. This is a way to get warmed up with the writing process and will help you to focus on what's important in a short sales bio.
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Examine your essay and highlight any information that you believe is the most important. For example, if you were sales person of the year, that would be a highlight. If you've worked 20 years in the field, that would be a highlight, too. Remember, what you want as highlights is how you want to make a first impression with a reader.
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Write a first draft of your short sales bio. You'll want your bio to be between 50 and 100 words. This is not a strict limit, though. It's all right to go a bit longer or a bit shorter.
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Print out your draft and let it sit for a day without looking at it. Then read it through thoroughly. Check for any grammar errors. Have coworkers or family members read through it and make suggestions for improvement.
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Incorporate any edits that you made on your draft into your final version of your short sales bio. Print it and you're finished.
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Tips & Warnings
Revisit your sales bio every few months to see if it can be improved.
Don't use words that people would have to find a dictionary to learn their meaning.
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