The strategies for writing a winning landing page bio


Instructor Intro
- đ« vague: ex-Google
- đ specific: 5 years at Google leading global partnerships
- đ« vague: Led growth teams
- đ specific: Head of Growth at WhatsApp, built growth function from ground up
- đ« vague: Startup advisor
- đ specific: Advisor to 20+ startups that were acquired
- đ« vague: Trainer/coach
- đ specific: Trained hundreds of X role on how to get promoted
- đ« vague: Product at X company
- đ specific: Head of Product at X company with 5m users and $22m in funding
- đ« vague: Excluding suffixes
- đ specific: Include suffixes like Dr or PhD to convey your credibility in your field
Here are examples of effective instructor intros:
- Marily Nika's Breaking into AI Product Management

- Kate Mason's Communicating with Power

- Joe Portsmouth's Email Marketing 101

- Dave Wolovsky's How to Ask for a Raise

- Rob Lennon's Zero to 10k Twitter Accelerator

Instructor Bio
An effective bio should include these 4 components
- What you're currently doing
- Relevant professional experience in the field
- Results and outcomes (include numbers)
- Why you've built this course and who it's for
- Emily Kramer's Building B2B Marketing

- Taylor Davidson's Cap Table and Exit Waterfall Masterclass

Show credibility by speaking intelligently about your target students' problems
1. Speak intelligently about your target students' problems
- What are the real day-to-day problems that your ideal student struggles with?
- What are the mistakes youâve seen others make (or youâve made)?
- Share how youâve solved those problems in your own work
- Share how youâve helped a client or student transform their life or business
- Whatâs your unique approach to solving this problem?
- What projects did you work on and what were the results? Be specific and use metrics. Did this approach improve retention by 30%? Did these techniques to increase conversion by 20%?

2. Share student transformation stories

3. Share your spiky point of view
- What do you wish more people understood about solving X problem?
- What are mistakes youâve seen others in your industry make (or that youâve made)?
- Whatâs a best practice that everyone seems to believe is right, but you disagree with based on your experience?
4. Use industry-specific language

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