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What is brand voice?

By Nicholas Cabel The 60-second version lives on Instagram

Brand voice is how your business sounds everywhere it speaks: your website, your social posts, your emails, your replies. It is the consistency that tells people one real business is behind all of it.

In plain English

Your logo is your face. Your brand voice is the sound of your own voice on the phone, the same no matter who picks up.

Three things build it

01

A fixed vocabulary

The same words for your services every time, not five different names for one thing.

02

A set tone

Decide once whether you are warm, direct, or playful, and stay there.

03

One sign-off, every time

The same closing line trains people to recognize you before they see your name.

Worth remembering

Sprout Social found 76% will buy from a brand they feel connected to, and 57% will spend more.

A connected feeling comes from recognition, and recognition comes from sounding the same everywhere. That consistency is worth real dollars, both in who buys and how much they spend.

What to do about it

If your website copy, your posts, and your emails all sound like different people wrote them, that gap is costing you trust. Get a free website audit and I will show you where your voice breaks down.

About the author

  • Nicholas Cabel

    Written by

    Nicholas Cabel

    Founder of MakeAndUpdate, a one-person web studio in West Chester, PA. Hand-codes fast websites for local businesses and builds in public.

    @makeandupdate