Cindy and Windy both own ice cream shops on the same block.
Voice and tone help distinguish you from everyone else. Without them, you’ll start to sound generic, like those late night TV infomercials. Or worse, like your competitors.
Voice
Voice is your forever personality. It’s why your mother can recognize it’s you when you call.
Tone
Tone is the difference between how you sound when you call your mom on a good day and how you sound when you call your mom while PMSing. You’re still you, you just sound a little more pissed.
How about an example?
Cindy is a bit more tame: her ice cream is all natural, organic, and made from sheep’s whatnots and things. She cares the most about honesty, transparency, and being seen as a professional, friendly ice cream shop owner. The kind of owner you might pluck out of the 1940s.
Windy is a bit more windy, so her ice cream shop focuses on horror-movie themed ice cream. Weird? Definitely. Delicious? Decidedly. She doesn’t give a flick about convention and she leads with surprise, kitsch, and the macabre. Think Elvira Mistress of the Dark meets Ben & Jerry's.
Both Cindy and Windy are launching a new ice cream flavor and need to announce it on their websites. What they say and how they say it should be different, as they have very distinct brand personalities.
Celebrate winter with a chocolate treat wrapped in luxurious caramel layers before it sells out.
Snatch IScream Bliss—our velvety chocolate caramel-drizzled dessert to die for—before it's laid to rest.
Can you guess which witch is which? The magic of voice and tone helps each of them express their just right weirdness in a way that fits their brand and attracts their ideal customers.
We create voice and tone magic for non-fictional business owners too
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