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For me, doing is what I believe in and nothing disturbs me more than the feeling, that I could have done it but I didn’t try. At my workplace, I know many individuals who want to make a big splash. They even give it a shot but gradually, they adjust with their average performance and start loving their comfort zones. Well, this problem lies within us all. We all are constantly getting breeded to stay mediocres. Going to college, getting a decent job, getting married and having kids, and then waiting for death. It may be a good life but it isn’t great. And if you have to get something great, you have to leave the good behind. So, do you agree with me and want to break the monotony? These incredible habits can help you make a million-dollar partner to your your company.

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Embrace Your Heroes

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We all have idols. Look upon them at this hour of need. Think what would your heroes do if they were facing your situations. Will they just be happy with this current profile you are working at? Will they like your mundane routine of your work? And how would they like to change it? These questions will be definitely difficult but working upon them will break the monotony.

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Take ownership of What You Do

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How many times did you point others for your failures at your office? There is nothing as sick as blaming others for your failures. By blaming them, you give them power to control your lives and believe me, you would not love doing that. Instead learn to accept things and embrace learning to improve it. Moreover, treat yourself as a partner at your workplace. When you take a job, do not do it as an employee who is doing it for the sake of getting paid. Do not follow your monotonous 9 to 6 routine as well. Believe in your organization’s vision and be happy because you feel that you are being a part of a plan which is greater than a person.

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Know Your Co-workers and Customers

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You might have heard about “Love Thy Neighbor”. Well, the greatest commandment at workplace is- “Love Your Coworkers”. A manager who builds a relationship with his staff is much better than he who manages his employees and this feeling is not restricted at leadership level. But can be practiced at any levels in the organization. Moreover, love your customers or end-users as well because if you love them, you can create better products for them. Hence, you win at both ends.

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Prioritize your goals at work starting from:-

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Meet your coworkers outside your workplace. Indulge with them in some sports as 20 minutes of sport can enhance mood up to 12 hours. Thus, you may find a good friend in them.

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Note:- Always Maintain your boundaries.

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Say More YES But Learn to say NO too

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Say Yes to challenges as it will burst your bubble. You will be able to appreciate your life at a new level. You will have new experiences and that’s the best gift your life can offer to you. But it is also okay to say no when it seems right to you. You should have a good work-life balance.

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Find Your Unique Way to Do your Work

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Winners don't do different things, they do the things differently.

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Highlight yourself with your ability to perform tasks in a unique way. It is very much urgent to be unique in competitive era. Therefore, come up with new ideas and support ideas which you believe in. It is very much necessary at workplace to listen your hearts. Dance to your heart’s tune and you will find a unique way to do your work.

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Break up with Complacency

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When you were a child, you never wanted to be a suit, a paper pusher or a dream killer. You wanted to a make difference to the world. You wanted to be a huge splash in the water. So, why are you not making it? It is time that you give up complacency and stop squandering your lives in doing mediocre things. Start from your job. Leave your comfort zone, take more challenges and push yourself to the next level. Because when you start loving your comfort zone, you cease to achieve. So, give up complacency and let the enlightenment dissipate.

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Don’t Work For Money

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Money should be an inspiring aspect to your work but it should the prime one. There are truly some things in life which money can’t buy. There are many people who earn great paychecks but are not satisfied with their lives. You don’t want to be like them, right? So, find your passion in your work and all other things including money will come in the course of time.

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Forget Fear

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Do not fear of failing at workplace. All great men failed many times in their lives. So, see failing as learning and move ahead.

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Ditch Unwanted Relationships

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Choose your company wisely. You are the product of people with whom you spend most of the time with. Your company will reflect on your work and lives.

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Keep The Bigger Picture In Mind (about your organization)

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It is always advised to keep the bigger picture in mind. When you take a decision, think of the end-results. Is it going to last long? Moreover, believe that you are going to have a long relationship with your organization and act accordingly.

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Your lives are definite. So, change your habits at the earliest and perform at your workplace to the fullest. Also, it is advised to build one habit at a time or you might get repulsed to adopt several changes so soon.

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To be honest, I literally hated Google Keep when it came as default with my Nexus 5 Phone.  I was using Evernote back then. But gradually I have developed interest towards Keep due to its lightweight and non lagging interface.

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So, the much Awaited Google Keep Feature is now on the floor - Keep is now integrated with G Suite. Read more about it and a few other tips on Keep below.

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1. You can now add your Google Keep notes in doc right from Docs menu.

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Some of the blogs have reported that it is available for G suite only but I can see that the update is rolled on regular Google accounts too.

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The Above GIF by Google’s Official G Suite blog shows how you can easily fetch notes from keep to docs. You can not only fetch the notes from keep to docs but you can save the content from Google Docs to keep too. Just Select any Text, right click and choose “Save to Keep notepad”

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Many of the keep users don’t know but there was a “copy to google doc” feature already available for desktop users. (keep.google.com)

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2. Add reminders in Google Keep

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You can setup reminders in keep. You can also set it up for daily chores like feeding your pet or buying groceries.

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P.S. if on phone you can also set up place based reminders. For example, you can remind yourself to workout when you reach home.

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3. Segregate notes using Labels

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Using Keep for multiple things like homework or some event? Create Labels and add a label to each of the notes for easy organization. No more messed up notes, yay!

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4. Add Keep widget in your phone.

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Add your desired keep note to the home screen of your Android using the Keep widget. You can choose which note you want to display. Using the widget you can also add a note or an image and view the existing notes. For me, the Keep widget is a great way to remind myself about the important tasks I have.

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5. Visual notes, add images to Keep!

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Saw an awesome DIY bottle and want to make it too? Just save it to Keep by opening your camera right from the Keep dashboard and save the image as note or reminder!

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6. Voice Notes

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You can also add voice notes if you don’t want to type the notes!

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Pro tip: Don’t have microphone in your laptop or PC? Or facing issue with recording on laptop, Just record using keep, open keep in desktop and download the file.

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7. Save a Tab, Try the Google Keep extension!

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Google Keep Chrome Extension is a bliss especially when you are a frequent keep user. It also saves you a tab.

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8. Share keep with your friends, family, and colleagues and let them edit it too.

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Just like Google Docs, you can also share your keep notes with your team and friends.

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9. Make a checklist!

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Want to keep a note always at top? Pin it.

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11. Keyboard Shortcuts

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Here are a few shortcuts which can be really helpful.

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c: Create a new note

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/: To search from the list of notes

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ESC: Close Note after editing

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J and K: Move to next or previous note

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N and p: To Move to next or previous list item in the note

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?: For opening the complete list of keyboard shortcuts TL;DR watch this video if you are in short of time!

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Happy Notes.

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Established in 2014, IOM X is an innovative campaign created by the non-profit organization, International Organization for Migration (IOM), that leverages the influence of technology and media to inspire communities and youths to act against human trafficking. Its activities mainly focus on developing free and accessible television and online media content with the goal of raising awareness about human trafficking, as well as the actions that can be taken to help fight it.

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Why they came to LoginRadius

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As IOM X’s efforts are centered around accessible web-based content, digital media and online engagement is essential to everything they do. With LoginRadius’ social solution, IOM X wanted to achieve these two objectives:

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At LoginRadius, we strive to provide a simple and hassle-free implementation process to help our customers successfully achieve their goals. During IOM X’s implementation period, our 24-hour support team was readily available to assist whenever there were any questions or concerns.

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What they saw as a result

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By centralizing all of their user identities, IOM X was able to gain valuable insight into their user base, tailor their messages to specific audiences, and provide users with more effective and meaningful content. They are now able to cater their communication and media and have seen improvements in user engagement and increases in the conversion rate.

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IOMX - LoginRadius Customer Success Story

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No company’s complexity and work culture have ever stopped Slack from being their numero uno tool for team communication. From NASA to Pinterest, people from every niche love Slack. And I think Slack has got that moves so that 4 million active users can enjoy it daily. So, what makes Slack so adorable? Is its all-time favorite list of bots which boost your productivity or its variety of app integrations which cover all segments of your business? Either way, we love Slack App integrations, and it has proved that it isn't just any other communication tool.

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Why App Integrations are important?

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Slack is well known for its chatting environment. You can create various channels for your teams belonging to different departments as it was discussed in the previous article. Though channels help to carry out your daily communication with so perfection, Slack needs to read different app notifications to keep you updated about your business. Hence, Slack has appreciably solved the problem with its extensive list of apps which can be integrated with your Slack. So, here is a list of few apps for your workplace with its “how to do” steps which will increase your productivity and create a good work-life balance.

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List of App Integrations which can boost productivity

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Asana

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As one of the best online platforms for email marketing, Mailchimp-Slack integration can help you to get updates about the number of subscriptions and you can check a campaign’ sent status. The process includes authentication from your Mailchimp account. Afterwards, you can also select which lists to monitor through Slack.

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In a nutshell, you can check the following events:-

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Github

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Hubot is a popular chatbot which can be used for anything in your team. For example, you can have a poll of what your team is going to have for lunch or you can look for people who want to have a coffee. Well, this bot is fun and this is how you can integrate it with Slack.

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Google Hangouts

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Well, it is one of the most popular integrations in Slack. You just simply need to drag and drop your file’s URL in the respective message box of your Slack channel. Thus, the file gets shared with everyone in your team. Combining a centralized communication tool like Slack with Google Drive will boost productivity.

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Intercom

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Intercom is a great tool to interact with the users of your software. You can send in-app messages and targeted emails to your users through your app during special occurrences.

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Integrating Slack to Intercom will allow you to receive following notifications on your dedicated channel:-

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WordPress, which is another highly customizable tool which creates and manages your blog or website.

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Integrating WordPress with Slack will send you notifications about blog posts during their publication or review. Moreover, when someone comments on your blog post, you will be notified through Slack.

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Stripe is an app for accepting payments online. You will be able to get updates about transfers, subscriptions, invoice payments, charges etc. through integrating Stripe with Slack.

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Zendesk, which is another tool to support tickets against issues can be integrated to Slack to get notifications about your tickets. The following events are notified on Slack:- 1. Open 2. Pending 3. Solved  4. Closed

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Hence, these are few useful apps from legion of apps from the Slack repository. Slack has been continually adding apps to its league which can improve your team’s productivity and add more artistry to your workplace. So, does your workplace use such Slack integrations to boost productivity? Please share your insights about Slack integrations in the comments below.

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Every professional needs a bio but only few care to write a good one. Either we hastily jot down anything and everything which we run across in our mind places (because we need it urgently) for a professional bio or we follow a common author bio template. And we never care to update it. Either way, we miss a great opportunity to endorse ourselves.

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A perfect professional bio (you can also call it author bio) can earn you respect and visibility in the industry. Want to know how and why is it important to write a perfect author bio? Please read below:-

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Why is it important?

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An author bio is your professional reflection online. It represents you professionally and describes you in an interesting yet effective way. Thus, a professional bio is written so that you can attract more readers. It is your sales pitch in disguise and moreover, it accelerates your efforts to personal branding.

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People read bios, you continuously need to be vigilant about your potential customers or allies who can run into your bio. So, it is very important to produce the best professional bio to market yourself efficiently.

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Ingredients

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Several ingredients make up a perfect author bio. Some of the elements are listed below:-

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Now, I don’t mean you have to add all of them. Just add the most relevant ones to make sure it doesn’t look humongous.  So start with a quick tagline that defines you on the professional front. Further, you can include things like education, industrial awards, and everything which will help you to establish yourself as a person who is sensitive, principled and hard working to people who may need you.

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Common mistakes made in writing a professional bio

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Mistake #1. Lacks consistency

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Writing an author bio demands consistency to engage your readers. And you may need to write different kinds of professional bios- long, short or micro (two-liners) according to the various websites (includes social networking sites as well) you may approach or choose. Now as your readers can view all your bios, they should be same. But many professional bios fail to serve the purpose.

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Character Limits for Professional Bios on Social Media

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Mistake #2. It never gets updated

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Updating your professional bio is an important step towards being transparent with your readers. You should check and update your bios at regular intervals (every six months). Moreover, get it proofread.

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Mistake #3 Absence of links to your works

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Sometimes even experts miss to provide links to their works which are described in their bios. It affects their personal branding. Thus, providing links to your accomplishments will help your readers to easily access your works.

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Mistake #4. Use of weak verbs

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Using passive voice kills the essence of your actions and accomplishments. Use active voice while speaking about yourself. Moreover, including verbs like “attempting” or “trying” reduces the effect of the statement.

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Mistake #5. Including monotonous lists

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Do not sound monotonous while preparing professional bios. So, avoid writing it as a list of your academic and professional accomplishments. Be casual and play with your words.

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Mistake #6. Not including CTAs in bios

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It is sad if you are not able to convert a reader into customer after reading your bio. So, be prepared and add CTAs to your professional bio. This is a chance for you to connect with your customers.

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Tips to write a surefire professional bio

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1. Write according to your purpose

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You need to identify your audience who is going to read your professional bio. Moreover, you should analyze your purpose of connecting with the audience. Meditate about these points and then start writing.

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2. Prefer ‘third person perspective’ in your bio

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You cannot boast about your achievements if you are using first person perspective. So, you can use “I” or “you” while writing an author bio but I personally prefer writing it in third person perspective. Write like you are writing about another person.

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Prepare three versions of your professional bio- Long, short and micro. You will need them for various purposes.

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Micro bio- one or two lines about yourself (like a short sales pitch). You can also use them as Twitter bio ;)

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Short bio- a paragraph including your important attributes. Good for Linkedin Bio.

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Long bio- include “nice to know” facts about you (complete information about yourself in two paragraphs)

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4. Highlight your name in the beginning

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Start your author bio with your name in the beginning. It is just like getting introduced to somebody. Begin with your name and related information will follow.

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5. Introduce your accomplishments early

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Your author bio is a medium to speak about your accomplishments. So, add your accomplishments but don’t be too loud about your achievements.

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6. Show your personality

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Show your personality through your author bio. Add some humor and make your readers smile. Adding such elements will reflect your personality positively.

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7. Contact Details Please!

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Mandatorily, add your LinkedIn profile link or the hyperlink to your email.

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8. Proofread

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Most importantly, do not forget to proofread your bio. Always invite some of your friends to help you proofread the bio.

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Some real life examples of best professional bios that I found in my research:

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This blog title generator from Hubspot is very efficient. You just need to provide it with three keywords (even one keyword can work). The tool helps you to find topics you can write upon. Hence, if you are struggling for ideas, Hubspot’s blog topic generator is the right tool for you.

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2. TweakYourBiz Title Generator

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3. Portent’s Content Idea Generator

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This great tool on my favorite list is very easy to use. You just need to enter your idea and Portent’s Content Idea Generator will provide you with a great title for your post. And if you don’t like the title, refresh your subject, and it will give you a different title instantly.

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Topic researcher tools

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1. Google keyword planner

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Google keyword planner is a chunk from the Google AdWords program. The tool is completely free and is used to figure out and discuss keywords and develop a pay per click strategy. Type a keyword in the search bar, check the competition for your keywords and other related keyword phrases. Moreover, you can find out things like:-

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Google keyword planner helps you to amplify your content strategy.

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2. Buzzsumo

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The tool although starts with a $99 pro plan per month, you can quickly catch content industry-wise using broad keywords. Filters like guest posts, videos, and infographics are available in the tool.

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Image editor tools

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**1. Canva**

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It is my most favorite tool for graphics generation. This easy to use tool helps you to create engaging graphics that can get shared easily. Moreover, Canva has a massive database of content types which keeps on growing continually. Sign in for free, pick your favorite layouts for multiple social profiles and craft your masterpiece. The drag-drop feature in canva with an extensive list of professional designs (mostly free or cost you just an ace) will provide you outstanding graphics.

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2. Infogr.am

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If you want to present your technical content in a fun way, use Infogr.am. Infographics are a great way to attract more readers to your posts. So, sign in and get your data loaded in your favorite theme. Well, you may not be able to customize much with the tool like Canva, and you don’t get a blank option in Infogr.am but it may be a lifesaver tool when you want to create a detailed infographic.

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3. Giphy

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One of the most sought GIF maker Giphy is here to make insanely rocking GIFs. This tool will help you to create a happier GIF making experience. You can make and share GIFs easily and simultaneously in Giphy. Get a video from Vine, Vimeo or Youtube and select your portion from the video which you want to make it into a GIF. The option for adding captions is also available in Giphy.

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You can also turn a group of images into a GIF or edit an existing GIF on a website. In a nutshell, if you are a GIF fan (we all love GIFs), you will love this tool.

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Readability test tools

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Readability score of your article helps you to know how well your readers understand your post. Because senseless information is not a useful, here are two of my favorite readability checkers to check your readability score.

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**1. The Readability Test Tool**

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You can use this online readability tool to check your article’s readability score. You can insert your piece of writing through an URL, text or you can add a link to the source material. However, there is also another form to introduce your articles which are a browser bookmarklet form. The readability indicators are Automated Readability Index, Coleman Liau Index, Gunning Fog Score, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, and Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease.

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2. Readable.io

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This user-friendly tool expertly examines your article for a perfect readability score. You can import your piece of writing through text or URL. Other amazing features of the tool include integration with your Slack app or Dropbox. It also has featured such a readability alerts or keyword density alerts (premium users only). These features can be helpful when you need to get alerts related to less search engine friendliness of your website or high readability scores for your site content.

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Readable.io is a free tool when you use it occasionally. To move to advanced features, you can select any of these plans.

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Plans are available for individual and business purpose. Features like Readable.io’s API is only for business plans.

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Other useful tools

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1. Grammarly

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Grammarly is an effective tool which can improve your language skills. It can find typo errors and grammatically incorrect sentences. Just enter your text in the Grammarly web app and the Grammarly editor will proofread your blog post.

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Grammarly is free but there is a premium version available for this app. It is available in three plans- monthly, quarterly and annually.

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2. Copyscape- The Free Plagiarism Checker

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Plagiarism checker is an essential tool for writers and no other name could come to my mind other than Copyscape. Copyscape is free and can be used to check whether your content has any duplicates. Enter the URL of your post and get results about your article.

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Some apps for writers (mobile and desktop)

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So, if you are more convenient using apps than browsers, here are some goodies for more productive writing.

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1. Hemingway App

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Evernote can be your best friend when you like to store media, information or ideas. Devices can easily integrate with the content stored in Evernote which make materials more accessible. You can share your content on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or just your content’s URL to clipboard.

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3. Tomighty Pomodoro timer

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