by Ben Afia | Jan 10, 2019 | tone of voice, white papers
How do you help people to write clearly, consistently and on-brand? You’ll make customers happier, more likely to buy and less likely to complain. So it’s got to be worth getting right, hasn’t it? Strong tone of voice guidelines are a good start. But...
by Ben Afia | Dec 14, 2018 | tone of voice, white papers
We’ve run hundreds of workshops showing thousands of people how to write well for their organisations. And, as you might imagine, we’ve come up against resistance here and there to changing to a new tone of voice. So we’d like to share the most common reasons people...
by Ben Afia | Nov 23, 2018 | articles, tone of voice
Great global brand Thomas Twining began selling tea as a trendy alternative to coffee in 1706, from his shop on the Strand. Over 300 years later Twinings is thriving in 130 countries. Twinings means different things to different people around the world. And the brand...
by Ben Afia | Oct 19, 2018 | articles, tone of voice
I’ve been published in German. Which is fun because I don’t speak it. Marketing magazine, Absatzwirtschaft, recently asked me to write an article explaining tone of voice to German corporates. This is what I sent them in English but if you can read German,...
by Ben Afia | Oct 9, 2018 | brand strategy, culture, tone of voice, video/audio
Way back in the mists of time, around 2005 I think, I was finishing off E.ON’s brand tone of voice guidelines and we were talking about how to get them rolled out. E.ON asked me to do some training.
I’d never delivered training before but I agreed and figured I’d...
by Ben Afia | Aug 10, 2018 | articles, tone of voice
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that customers aren’t numbers, they’re people: people with friends they talk to when they’ve been badly treated. High leakage rate? A couple of weeks ago we were talking to a business that needs to fix its leaks. They had a high leakage...
