How can a small local business with no marketing budget use social media to attract more customers?
Last Updated: 28.06.2025 03:24

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.
Price
If you are in business, you ARE “marketing”. If you don't have a PROMOTION budget, you are marketing badly.
Place
Trump tariffs expected to dampen global economic growth, OECD says - The Washington Post
Perception
Product
AND Promotion> (Advertising, PR, Personal Selling and Sales Promotion - Digital or analogue)
Why do philosophy of physics when you can do physics itself? - Aeon
Good marketing is doing this well.
Processes
Utilising social media means allocating resources to that endeavour - so you must have a budget of some sort.