{"id":605,"date":"2008-10-17T07:57:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T05:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2008-10-17T07:57:24","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T05:57:24","slug":"about-us-copy-and-paste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/17\/about-us-copy-and-paste\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us: Copy and Paste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was taught to care about who is behind the portfolio. <\/p>\n<p>When I land to a site, I&#8217;m interested to first read <strong>About us<\/strong> section, so I can visualize author while browsing her showcase. It helps me better remember people, and more easily get back when I need to. Authentic copy helps. Photo, too. <strong>Don&#8217;t make it generic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t copy and paste sentences and phrases you found on other sites. Don&#8217;t claim you&#8217;re something, you&#8217;re not, hoping that such facts would bring you more work. Rather than that \u2014 show us what would you like to be sometimes in the future, and someone might give you a chance.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s okay if you don&#8217;t have experience, it stinks if you provide false or generic information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The quantity of experience is not the essential part of your resume. It&#8217;s the progress, and the current state of you.<\/strong> If you have tendency to develop new professional interests and enhance personal grow over time, then you have an advantage over a person who sticks at the same level over years, just switching companies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are your own copywriter, let friends and colleagues randomly describe you.<\/strong> You&#8217;ll have enough raw material to chop off the interesting chunks of text and spice it up with your own writing style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was taught to care about who is behind the portfolio. When I land to a site, I&#8217;m interested to first read About us section, so I can visualize author while browsing her showcase. It helps me better remember people, and more easily get back when I need to. Authentic copy helps. Photo, too. Don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.maratz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}