What is Slow Marketing? An Introduction for Small Businesses - Pip Christie

Here is one that I’ve encountered time and again: marketing is the mother of revenue. Some of you might wince at the idea of self-promotion and all of your biases with the word marketing. When it comes to gigantic corporations, I do too. But let’s consider this in a small business context, where you work in and with your community. In this sense, m... See more

Panic is not a business strategy.What would happen if we all. slowed. down. our marketing?•It means that we can accept that sometimes it will take a while to build trust with people we’ve just met.It means that instead of pressuring people to buy right now, we encourage them to sleep on it and sit with it to make sure it’s really a fit (so that any... See more

In a world of fast content incentivized by advertising-based attention-hacking business models, being slow and considered is a superpower.

Old-school marketing is functional. It's about manufacturing emotion to manipulate people, jumping straight into showcasing products, highlighting features, promoting benefits and talking price. New-school marketing is never about manipulation. It's about engaging people with your raison d'être. That's why purpose is at the heart of a complete and

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Non-coercive marketing recognizes that the vast majority of people who enter your world are not currently ready to transact with you from a trusting, empowered place. As such, it optimizes for long-term relationships and friendships. It's about building a world that people want to inhabit, and travel deeper into, over the long term. It's about bein

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Slow media promote Monotasking . Slow Media cannot be consumed casually, but provoke the full concentration of their users. As with the production of a good meal, which demands the full attention of all senses by the cook and his guests, Slow Media can only be consumed with pleasure in focused alertness.