What is Slow Marketing? An Introduction for Small Businesses - Pip Christie
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What is Slow Marketing? An Introduction for Small Businesses - Pip Christie
“Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any given context. If today I want to go fast, I go fast; if tomorrow I want to go slow, I go slow. What we are fighting for is the right to determine our own tempos.”
This idea lies at the heart of a new, conscious era of business and marketing. It's about doing work you love with people you love, in your own unique way, while making a difference in the world.
as society accelerates, something shifts. In more and more contexts, patience becomes a form of power. In a world geared for hurry, the capacity to resist the urge to hurry – to allow things to take the time they take – is a way to gain purchase on the world, to do the work that counts, and to derive satisfaction from the doing itself, instead of d
... See moreI want the slow web
the intentional web
the curated web
the mindful web
the cherished web
the handmade web
the inverted web
Conscious marketing is all about building something so fundamentally good and compelling right into the heart of your business, products and services that everyone (suppliers, employees and community) wants to join your tribe and spread the word.
Timely not real-time. Rhythm not random. Moderation not excess. Knowledge not information. These are a few of the many characteristics of the Slow Web. It’s not so much a checklist as a feeling, one of being at greater ease with the web-enabled products and services in our lives.