Ana Fragoso

@anapaulafragoso

Slow Marketing, Slow Business and how slow movement and conscious marketing can impact the way we market ourselves and do business, have been my research subject for 4 years now. I believe that consciousness and self knowledge are deeply connected to the way we build businesses and its totally possible to use it to have a business that thrives in the long term. I'll be curating content that inspires me to keep moving towards this reality, and proving that it's possible!

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To put this into perspective, these rates mean that for most SMEs, you’d need a following in the tens of thousands for organic social media to generate meaningful results.

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O futuro das redes

Like every human endeavour, every social network is there for a limited duration and will be useful to a limited niche of people. That niche may grow to the point of being huge, like Facebook and WhatsApp. But, to this day, there are more people in the world without an account on Facebook than people with one. Every single social network is only... See more

Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed

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Productivity tools shape our thinking in ways that favor standardization, efficiency, and predictability. They demand structure before inspiration has a chance to strike. They ask for timelines when the problem itself is still hazy. But creativity is not linear. Often, it involves struggling down several blind alleys before finding the right path.

Sari Azout • The End of Productivity

Tudo de IA

From 2007 to 2018, social media was centralizing in platforms like Facebook, YouTube or Medium. Now, people are going back to owning their own social media, and de- centralizing it through self-hosted blogs, podcasts, forums, etc.

Future of Social Communities

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Marketing emails

Finally, there are Marketing emails. These are explicitly designed to sell something or promote something.

Dan Oshinsky • Article

Mundo da Newsletter

Talent will increasingly own their audience, with the rise of “channels of one” and community-as-a-service... Equivalents to Substack (where you build and monetize your own email list) will emerge in video, communities, branded products (like Borgo, still pre-launch) and other ways to build, manage, and monetize your audience. Some early breakouts... See more

Scott Belsky • 8 Themes For The Near Future Of Tech 🔮

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Networking is the cultivating of mutually beneficial, give-and-take, win-win relationships.

Bob Burg • Endless Referrals, Third Edition

Hub Marketing

But as seen from the macro view, a diverse, bottom-up media ecosystem is in fact

not thriving

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Instead, the inverse is happening.

Homogeneity is winning.

Matt Klein • The Creator Paradox: Cultural Stasis Amidst Creative Surplus

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A fundamental but often unspoken truth about starting your own business is that there are often long grind periods, sometimes without producing any of the results you want. You’ll need something to drive you through the uncertainty of making your new business happen. If you focus on those things that make you come alive, it makes the entire process

Charlie Gilkey • The Small Business Life Cycle: The No-Fluff Guide to Navigating the Five Stages of Small Business Growth

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