Should My About Page Be Written In The First Or Third Person?

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Pat Flynn

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2014

⏱️ 7 minutes

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George is writing his about page, and he’s wondering if he should write it in the first or third person. George’s site is http://georgeniebling.info/. Also be sure to listen to AP 0001 on how to build an about page: http://www.askpat.com/ Do you have a question about the content for your personal website? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:07.0	Dot com.
0:09.0	Askpats.
0:10.0	Hey, what's up, everybody? Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 179 of Ask Pat.
0:15.0	Thank you so much for joining me.
0:17.0	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:22.5	And we have a great question today from George.
0:27.3	But before I get to that, no sponsor, but I do have a show related to this particular episode because George's question is about our about page.
0:30.8	And the very first episode of Ask Pat was also about our about page.
0:35.3	This is sort of would be the second one you should listen to if you're building your
0:38.3	about page.
0:38.8	The first one you should listen to either after or before this one should be that episode.
0:43.6	If you go to askpat.com and sort and look at episode number one, you'll find the most downloaded
0:49.5	episode of Ask Pat ever, which is how to craft your about page.
0:53.5	One thing I didn't talk about was related
0:55.6	to George's question here. So let's get to George's question right now. Pat, I'm working on the
1:01.8	about page for georgenebling.info. And I'm curious about the about page. Should it be written in first person or third person?
1:13.5	Thanks for your answer and taking the time to help all of us as we move forward.
1:19.8	George, thank you so much for the question.
1:21.7	It's really interesting because when I heard your question, I was like immediately because I heard you say the domain name, you know, your name. Dot info. I was like, immediately, it's got to be first person. It's got to be first person.
1:32.6	And then I went to patflin.com, a site that I had actually fought for that domain name for a couple
1:37.6	years and I finally got it. But I have that up and it shows a lot of the different projects that I've been working on. You can get my book
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