by | articles, tone of voice
Do you have teenage kids? If so, you’ll probably find some of their language alien. Last week I used the word peng* with my 13 year old. The look of horror, no, disdain, on her face was enough to tell me never to use it again. I was put in my place – middle-aged dad....
by | articles, brand strategy, culture, tone of voice
I want to help companies to be more human (which is good job as that’s what I’ve done for 20 years). But sometimes people get stuck on what being human means. I’ve developed a model which shows where companies are on the scale of human. When you read...
by | articles, tone of voice
Customers. We like to think of them as the people who are kind enough to spend their money with us and use our products and services. Even if we’re never going to meet them face to face, it helps to imagine what would happen if we did. Customers are our friends and...
by | 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 | 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...
