How to create a Clubhouse bio?

What is a Clubhouse?

The Clubhouse is a new social media platform that is audio-based. There are two types of people in Clubhouse. The Audience and the speaker. The Speaker or the mod has the ability to turn on some mic but in the majority of the cases, it is only the speaker that speaks. The Clubhouse is more Inclusive. It is an audio version of Twitter. When you start a "room" you are a moderator, you can invite those to the stage when they raise their hand to speak.

If you have a profile on Clubhouse and want to grow your following then the best thing to do is to make sure that you have an attractive or eye-catching Bio in your Clubhouse Profile.

What is a Clubhouse Bio? And How could it help you?

Clubhouse gives you a specific limit of words in order to add to your Clubhouse profile. This is your first profile impression whenever someone visits your profile. As they say; "Your first impression is your last impression" This means whenever someone visited your Clubhouse profile, you should add the keyword that you are working in and some of your contributions.

Cool tips for having an eye-catching Clubhouse Bio:

1. Add a Keyword:?A keyword is anything that you are working in. You are a blogger who writes about marketing, add your keyword as "Blogger with marketing knowledge" and if you are a project manager, add just a "project manager in this X company" This will helps you in making you a credible person of knowledge.

2. Add Emojis:?Whenever someone is reading your Bio in Clubhouse, having Emojis related to the field of working could impersonate the job you do without even telling them what you do. Like if you are a book author, adding an ?? emoji could help you in that case. As if you just look into the Emoji and you could understand what the user really wants.

3. Not outgoing link except you are a celebrity:?If you are an influencer on Instagram or Facebook, having a link to your profile could increase your chances of getting more followers on your Clubhouse profile but if you don't have a big audience, don't market now. Just market yourself on that platforms aka Clubhouse.

13 Cool Clubhouse Bio Ideas:

Following are some cool Clubhouse Bio ideas:

1. Write a bio-related to the field you are working in.
2. List down your major contributions to the field.
3. Journalist, Writer, Author, and Speaker.
4. Social media marketing geek, Founder of Bla Bla company and running a room on Clubhouse about bla bla bla.
5. State what you are teaching to your Clubhouse audience.
6. Enlist the things in your Clubhouse profile that people might learn from you.
7. 'Mention your social media profile followers' like YouTube has 5.3K Subs, Facebook 10K and Instagram by 20K.
8. Add something interesting about you like "I read 2 books a month" or I have read 81 books last year.
9. There is no limit to the number of words in your Clubhouse Bio so You can introduce yourself with a story.
10. Are you a leftist? Tell them why you believe in it. If you are an entrepreneur tell people what you believe. Be Unique in your ideas.
11. Include the name of your Employer or in some cases, if you are working in FAANG companies, you can mention it twice.
12. Avoid words that are negative, depressing, make you a less-excited person to follow.
13. Remove the buzzword. Nobody is a guru or an expert in search engine optimization. The same applies to other types of jobs.

I’ve read hundreds of bios so far and they more or less fall under these 5 categories.

1. No bio bio

aka those people who #breakclubhouse whenever they are on.

They don’t write much in their bios, in fact, they don’t write anything. The name or handle says it all. As for avatar… something that adds to their personality, or a random photo they have on hand.

2. One-liner bio

Either they are highly concentrated in one field, or they’re just lazy.

I think these are the best bios. If you could tell the world who you are in a single sentence and they get it. Congratulations! It could be a sign that you’ve made it (whatever this means to you).

3. Emoji bio ????

Online communication feels incomplete with emojis ????♀?. From FB reactions to Twitter hashtags, emojis play an important role in self expression and replacement of words or objects ??. Clubhouse isn’t shy to capitalize on this trend???.

When you were setting up your account, you must have seen this screen:

Every interest is lead by an emoji that corresponds to the text. It accomplishes 3 things.

1. It makes the app look “young” and “hip”.
2. It makes viewing and selecting an interest easier thanks to the added visual aid.
3. This almost excessive use of emojis could be Clubhouse setting the tone for the app, and encouraging or making it “acceptable” for emojis to be used throughout the app. (This is my guess, there could very well be psychology research behind this.)

Back to the bios. Why did I incorporate emojis in my bio? I want colors and personality to show through, and that I’m lazy to type out the full words ??. Most importantly, the format of using an emoji to set the context followed by a brief description is visually effective and makes it easy to read and get who I am or what I do.

4. Numbers bio

Exact or approximate, quantify your achievements and prove to us that you’ve completed your KRs!

Personally I’m not a fan of this, because not everyone can relate to these numbers, and that it’s unlikely the reason I follow you. I hardly remember a time when I followed someone just because they have ### followers, or they were #1 in something.

Using numbers is the fastest and most direct way to establish credibility online, but without personality or genuinely, it can be seen as a show-off. Again, it could be a different story if a sponsor is reading it.

5. Over-the-fold bio

This refers to bios that go beyond the “fold” of the phone, and makes you scroll to get to the end.

Clubhouse doesn’t have a character limit for bios, and I see some users really pushing-the-limit on this. “More is not always better” describes this situation perfectly. Just like how I recommend people to have 1 page resumes since recruiters spends 7–15s on reading (actually skimming) them. I doubt we spend more than that on these bios.

Instagram and Twitter have a reason to cap their bios to 140–150 characters. There’s a lot of good content here and it’s formatted nicely, but I wonder how many people are reading them and getting the full value.

Profile photos

At first glance, this app is… different. Visually, it unlike facebook or instagram or twitter. The profile photos all look… very professional, but not the LinkedIn kind. Everyone, especially the moderators, have professional headshots with a non-white backgrounds. Something vibrant that create a bright yet pleasant contrast, which influences the overall app experience.

Moral of the story

Looking at these 5 types of bios, what can we take away to write ours?

1. Make it as?succinct?as possible, keep it above the “fold”
2. - know your target audience and pick your most relevant qualities
3. Use?emojis?to replace words and add variety & ?????
4. - use it sparingly with clean formatting
5. Use?numbers?when you think it’s going to help you
6. Pro tip: only the?first line?in your bio will be shown when others search you in the app. Make that your headline and make it???.

How you wish to use Clubhouse is reflected in what you put in your profile photo and bio. There is no right or wrong, best or worst way. It’s a “face” that you add on to your voice, a little something that you leave with your audience to “imagine” and paint a picture of you. Unlike your name and handle, you get to pick and change your profile photo and bio whenever you like. Have fun with it, and experiment what feels right for what room.

Let’s connect on Clubhouse and share our favorite rooms! My handle is?@gskumar.com?:)

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