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Emma Wilkens 29/01/2020 Emma Wilkens 29/01/2020

Why tone of voice matters

Tone of voice affects perception of our ideas, arguments and even our integrity. If we want to be heard, trusted and believed, tone of voice matters.

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Emma Griffin is a UK copywriter and hook strategist, creating uncopyable messaging that takes your business from run-of-the-mill to run and tell everyone.

After years working for some of the biggest names in the UK, she now uses her word-nerdery to help you stand out in a sea of copy+paste AI templates and say something deliciously different.

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AI can chuck out mediocre content fast because it’s only using what’s. already. out. there.

But you’ll never stand out by regurgitating what’s already been done.

Real creative strategists don’t just recycle what alrea

I know you didn’t put in the years of hard graft – defending your “little business” to relatives and watching as your frenemies hate-watched every single story you posted, hoping for you to fail – to keep playing it so s

Here’s what I believe:

The stuff that makes you stand out, that makes you human, that makes you utterly different to [insert other person in your niche] cannot be fully represented by a basic AI prompt or a Google Doc template that cost you l

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