The tone of your content helps add colour and texture to the big picture of your business. These are the most common tone choices and how they can be used in content you produce to show your expertise.
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Voice. Tone. Style. These words get thrown around a lot in marketing circles but what do they mean for you? If you want to build a strong brand, they mean a lot. These three little words have the big job of helping shape your brand through the words you use and the personality behind them.
What will your audience see in your words? How will they describe your business and perceive your organization as a result of how you put your message out into the world?
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I find it can be challenging to generate enough ideas to build a content map on my own steam in a reasonable amount of time, so I like to bring friends (colleagues) into the brainstorm with me. Getting a group of people together in a room to bounce ideas around makes for a lively conversation since all the possibilities trigger creativity in different ways for different people. This is one of my favorite parts of planning - brainstorming all the things with smart, creative people!
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Blogging about your expertise can be intimidating and it can also feel like you’re giving away what you do for free. Will you give away a lot of your expertise? Absolutely. Will it impact the business you get? Highly unlikely.
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Marketing is an interesting discipline in today’s world. In some companies, the team ends up relegated to service status, playing a reactive role in supporting sales. I’ve started referring to it as marketing as a service, or MaaS, since everything as a service is all the rage these days. For larger organizations, I’m not a huge fan of this approach since there’s usually significant investment to salaries of qualified individuals who understand the business strategy and build plans that help move it forward.
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