How can a small local business with no marketing budget use social media to attract more customers?
Last Updated: 27.06.2025 00:17

as well as uncontrollable factors (Politics, Economics. Social-cultural issues, Legal & compliance requirements, Technology, Ecology, Ethics, and Demographics.
Utilising social media means allocating resources to that endeavour - so you must have a budget of some sort.
Good marketing is doing this well.
Taking five minutes a day to do this can improve happiness, study finds - San Francisco Chronicle
Price
AND Promotion> (Advertising, PR, Personal Selling and Sales Promotion - Digital or analogue)
Place
Drinking coffee could help you age better, according to this Harvard study. - Stewartville Star
Processes
Perception
People
What made you recently say to yourself, “Wait. Really?”
If you are in business, you ARE “marketing”. If you don't have a PROMOTION budget, you are marketing badly.
Marketing is balancing and organising all the factors that create an exchange between buyer and seller, including:
Product