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

Last Updated: 27.06.2025 06:51

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

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

People

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

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Processes

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

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

What is the lowest probability event you have personally witnessed?

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

Product

Price

What makes you feel guilty the most?

Perception

Place

Good marketing is doing this well.

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