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Why Bloggers Should Write Using a Conversational Tone

Last Updated on: January 31st, 2017

https://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/improve-your-writing-with-a-conversation-tone/This is a sponsored post from Write Pro, which focuses on using descriptive speech in their writings. Two people actually wrote this post – another writer wrote the majority of it, and I wrote the last section. I’d appreciate it if you would read the whole thing and then answer my question to you at the end!

Blogging is the most effective and efficient mode of marketing upcoming and established businesses and brands. Businesses today, who are aiming to make their presence felt online, are steadily collaborating with influential bloggers, popular blogging sites, and online publications to have them and their offerings promoted in the most direct way possible, making it reachable to everyday internet users. Since blogs are a great tool to connect with people faster and more effectively, it is important that these blogs boast a more conversational tone that immediately grasps on to the attention of the readers.

What Does a Conversational Tone Do for Your Content?

If you thought a formal tone makes you sound serious and informative, it does, but then where does it lead you? Not far. The attention span of a regular individual is as low as it can get, presently. Why should they give your content a part of their precious time unless it is both valuable and interesting? Here is where the role of the conversational tone becomes imperative. The conversational tone is enriched with a few characteristics. These include:

  • Easy-going
  • Crisp
  • To-the-point
  • Evokes queries
  • Provides answers
  • Draws comparisons
  • Renders effective results
  • And, most importantly, keeps the reader in the loop and intrigued till the very end.

These characteristics come together to help build a number of advantages that you as a blogger or a business with a marketing goal can exploit.

3 Reasons Why You Should Write in a Conversational Tone

The answer is simple – to reap the benefits that come from it!

Some of the benefits of the much popular and effective conversational tone in blogging are:

1: A conversational tone in your blog makes the reader feel special and more connected.

The aim of any blog is to tell a story, which serves a purpose for both the marketer and the reader. The best way to do so is by introducing a potent conversational tone in the content. This camouflages your content as an actual conversation that triggers thoughts, questions, answers, opinions and the ability to relate to the content, in the readers’ mind. The moment you are able to produce these qualities in your content, you immediately start connecting better with your readers and also increase your organic reach, by luring more people into reading your blogs.

2: When people feel special, they are more likely to buy your product.

A conversational tone helps people find themselves at the other end of an easy conversation with someone they know and whose opinion they have started appreciating. When you directly refer to your reader asking for their opinions and striking comparisons with situations common to both them and you, it makes them feel important and special. Once that common ground is created between you and them, they are more likely to ponder over and buy the products or services you are promoting.

3: People love personal stories.

As mentioned above, blogs are a great way to connect with a larger base of people and the best way of doing that is by sharing personal stories that are unique yet relatable. Personal stories (such this one) are always more honest and legit, triggering curiosity of the readers. Just imagine listening to someone’s personal experiences, put together in a way as if they are being narrated just to you. You are bound to pay attention, right? The same logic applies to conversational blogs.

Apart from the benefits mentioned above, a conversational tone to your blog helps you create content that is absolutely unique. Google is always in favor of content that is unique, thus increasing your chances to fetch a better ranking in search engines.

How Do You Write in a Conversational Tone?

Up until this point, another writer was responsible for writing this article.

Now I, Lorraine Reguly, owner of this website, am going to tell you how you can write in a conversational tone.

(In my opinion, the writing up to this point has been more factual than conversational. Do you agree?)

See what I did there, just now? I asked YOU a question.

I’m picturing you nodding your head right now, too!

When you write in a conversational tone, you write as though you are speaking to only ONE person… because, essentially, you are.

You are writing for your reader. If you have millions of readers, or only one, it makes no difference. You need to speak to your reader.

Do you notice anything different in the way I’m writing the rest of this article?

Have you noticed that I am using the words “YOU” and “I” more often?

When you speak to someone – anyone – you use these words a lot. That’s what writing in a conversational tone really means… to use these words to relay your message.

It’s a good idea to put more focus on the words “you” and “your” than it is to use “me,” “my,” “mine,” and “I.”

You want your reader to know it’s all about them, all about their wants, and their needs.

Offering solutions to their problems is something most bloggers do. If you’re a blogger or a business owner, you already know that you need to offer value to your reader. If you can connect with your reader on a personal level (or at least, make your reader FEEL like you are making that connection), then you have a better chance of not only selling your products or services to that person, but you also have a better chance of creating a lasting relationship with him or her.

Many of my readers are also my Facebook friends. I’ve made lasting relationships with a lot of people. Some of those people are very influential, too. They are influencers in their niches. They are people who consistently provide value to not only their customers but to their friends.

I remember when I first started blogging and how I felt like a guppy in an ocean of sharks. I focused my energies on learning all I could about blogging, from these 30+ experts.

Now, many people consider me to be an expert in the blogging niche. People who I always looked up to and never thought I would ever be friends with are now my friends. They also share my blog posts on social media… without me asking them to do so!

Now how did I get to this point?

I wrote about my own experiences while helping others.

I wrote my blog posts in a conversational tone.

I provided value.

I was honest.

I was open.

And I was rewarded for it.

Now tell me something. Whose writing did you find easier to read and relate to? Mine, or the writer who wrote the first part of this article?

I’m curious to know!

Please share your answer in the comments. I promise I won’t get mad at you if you don’t pick me!

For more tips on how to write in a conversational tone, I suggest you read these articles:

Conversational Writing Tips

How to Write Conversational Content and Make Your Readers Deliriously Happy

Improve Your Writing with a Conversation Tone

 

22 thoughts on “Why Bloggers Should Write Using a Conversational Tone”

  4. says

    Excellent article, Most of the reader like to read content in a conversation tone only because it makes them feel something like a personal story, so it will be better to engage them. And I agree with all your points, and it gives me understand some better than before. And If we write in tone then it will surely increase the traffic. In that part, I’m very sure about it because every blogger needs this only. Thanks for sharing this excellent information

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    • says

      Satish, are you going to start writing more posts this way on Traffic Crow? I bet your readers would love to have more of your personal stories intertwined in the posts!

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  5. Somia says

    Hi Lorraine
    Nice article! People love personal stories that’s so true people wanna know about you that how you on your place. Whats things come through your life and all. All the point are so helpful tho. Thanks for sharing it. You are so intelligent no doubt.

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  8. says

    Hey Lorraine Reguly,

    I’m newbie but observed as the same what you said, I found that reader’s like the conversational tone of blogger and every blogger have it’s own tone.

    Like the pioneer blogger harsh and neil have the tone like they talk in real life and that’s why they have very huge readership and ranked over the search engines.

    Glad to know your point of view 🙂
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  9. Hemant Kumar says

    It’s simple, yet effective. A lot of times it’s difficult to get that “perfect balance”between superb usability and appearance. I must say you’ve done a amazing job with this. Additionally, the blog loads extremely fast for me on Chrome.
    Outstanding Blog!
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    • says

      Hemant, thanks for letting me know how fast my blog loads! 🙂 That is good to hear!

      Thanks, too for your comment. But you didn’t answer my question. Which writer’s tone did you like the best?

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  10. Adeel Sami says

    Hello, Lorraine!

    Definitely yours! 🙂

    I find it easy to read one or two liner paragraphs.

    And of course, they feel like easier to read.

    I always say that write lengthier, not wider.

    The wider you’ll try to write, it’ll add up lines after lines and will make the content look like cluttered.

    But in the situation of writing in the lengthier form, you’re set to write for one or two liner paragraphs which will hit the good effect.

    The reader will find such form of the content easy to read.

    So, thank you for writing this up! And showing the good demonstration of the two-style writeups! 🙂

    ~ Adeel
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    • says

      Hi Adeel!

      Thanks so much for your feedback! 🙂

      I agree with you, too. Reading factual information is BORING unless you find a way to spice it up!

      I love reading, but when the content doesn’t “hook” me right away, my mind wanders, and I end up skimming the text instead of reading it and absorbing each word (which is what I do when I read novels).

      Thanks for weighing in!

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  11. says

    Hi Lorraine,

    YOUR writing of course 🙂

    And yes, write like you talk is the key to making your blog posts easy to read – the conversational tone IS a must! You are right about using the You and I more often, and whatever you write, the reader should feel it is written for them – they are best connected one to one to the post this way.

    Thanks for sharing. Have a nice week ahead 🙂
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    • says

      Harleena, I thought so too! (But I am a bit biased! LOL)

      What I found kind of funny is how the writer provided the benefits of writing in a conversational tone but yet did not write in a conversational tone him/herself. 😉

      That’s one reason I like reading your blog posts — you always mention something about yourself and your experiences. And by commenting and replying to others’ comments, you strengthen your relationships with your readers.

      Thanks so much for leaving this comment, too! You know I appreciate it! 🙂

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