How can a small local business with no marketing budget use social media to attract more customers?

Last Updated: 02.07.2025 00:12

How can a small local business with no marketing budget use social media to attract more customers?

If you are in business, you ARE “marketing”. If you don't have a PROMOTION budget, you are marketing badly.

People

Utilising social media means allocating resources to that endeavour - so you must have a budget of some sort.

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AND Promotion> (Advertising, PR, Personal Selling and Sales Promotion - Digital or analogue)

Good marketing is doing this well.

Product

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Marketing is balancing and organising all the factors that create an exchange between buyer and seller, including:

Price

Perception

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as well as uncontrollable factors (Politics, Economics. Social-cultural issues, Legal & compliance requirements, Technology, Ecology, Ethics, and Demographics.

Processes

Place

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