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We believe business can be a force for good in the world. We believe marketing without manipulation can be successful. We believe that businesses can treat their staff, buyers and supply chain really well and still make a profit.
We want The Ethical Move to be an example of such an organisation.
So when The Facebook Papers hit the headlines, we asked ourselves: Can an ethical business use platforms that are at odds with their values?
As always, we talked about this as a team. As always, the divergence of opinions and experiences was a beautiful thing to behold (and a reminder of why diversity in teams is crucial).
And as always, we realised that while we have ideas of how the world should work, we operate in an imperfect world. That means that we have messy choices to make.
We know that while we’d rather not use certain channels, there is no viable current alternative to help us progress this movement.
We need more people to understand that how we sell matters, and to work together to change how we do marketing. To do that, we need our conversations to be as accessible and public as possible, which means we need to go where people are.
Instead, we can choose to engage in our channels more consciously.
For us, that means: Posting when we have something valuable to say rather than on a schedule. Posting for people and not the algorithm. Creating our content in a way that is sustainable for the team members in charge.
We look forward to the day perfect ethical alternatives arrive, but until then we are choosing to move towards our goal with the imperfect tools we have at our disposal.
Our new pledge is now live and complete on our site!
We were so grateful to hear from business owners who felt unable to pledge with the previous iteration of our pledge, but now feel ready to embrace it. We’ve had lots of new pledges come through! 🎉🎉🎉
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We are also very happy to welcome Jeanne Cartier from Spark & Bloom Studio as our new designer! 🎉
We are still looking for people to help us with:
To tide you over into the new year (we will not be sending a newsletter in December), we’d like to share a few of events + podcasts our team have been speaking on about ethical marketing and TEM.
Happy listening! 🎧
Karen spoke to Ingrid Fernandez on the podcast All the Business Bits
Alice and Sabine had a conversation on the From Scratch YouTube channel (in German, audio only)
Two masterclasses on ethical marketing with both Karen and Alice were hosted by Frances + Simon at Better, Bolder, Braver. (Links go to Crowdcast events)
Alice had a chat with Tara McMullin on the What Works Podcast about Operating a more ethical business – where you’ll get a look behind the scenes of The Ethical Move!
I support dignity and autonomy and am opposed to coercive marketing tactics. I don’t want anyone to buy anything from me they don’t need.– Annie Frisbie, paperlesslactation.com
I am making the ethical move because I want to do business differently than how I was taught. I want to feel good about my contribution.– Alyson Stanfield, artbizsuccess.com
Find more pledgee WHYs on our website:
We’ve been discussing accessibility when it comes to the channels we use – especially Medium and Facebook (ahem, Meta). Here are a few resources we found along the way.
This is a brilliant video campaign for #WeThe15 – the team agrees, THIS is how disability should be addressed!
The UN Disability-Inclusive Communications Guidelines that we’ll be uploading to our webs.
The Myth of the Normal Brain by Thomas Armstrong, PhD in the AMA Journal of Ethics
*We share resources to broaden our horizons, deepen our knowledge of our industry, and learn how to market ethically. The ethical move team does not agree with every opinion, nor do we claim to have found the best resources on the subject. What support or resources would you like to see from us? Send a reply and tell us!
Q4 is a period of reflection for us, but we are also looking ahead to 2022.
Mostly, we are closing out the year by slowing down. You can expect our next newsletter in January 2022!
Follow us on LinkedIn, join us on Discord – and check out our Medium Publication!
If you have a great topic to explore in an article, please send us your submission. We need all perspectives to make this work for everyone.
As always, thank you for following our moves!
We are so glad you’re here with us.
Your team at TEM
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