How can a small local business with no marketing budget use social media to attract more customers?
Last Updated: 01.07.2025 02:18

Perception
Utilising social media means allocating resources to that endeavour - so you must have a budget of some sort.
Price
Texas public health departments brace for another $119 million in federal cuts - The Texas Tribune
Marketing is balancing and organising all the factors that create an exchange between buyer and seller, including:
Product
as well as uncontrollable factors (Politics, Economics. Social-cultural issues, Legal & compliance requirements, Technology, Ecology, Ethics, and Demographics.
Veteran fund manager revamps stock market forecast - TheStreet
People
Processes
AND Promotion> (Advertising, PR, Personal Selling and Sales Promotion - Digital or analogue)
Citigroup lifts banking curbs on gun makers and sellers - NBC News
If you are in business, you ARE “marketing”. If you don't have a PROMOTION budget, you are marketing badly.
Good marketing is doing this well.
Place
US energy groups spend record sums on power plants to feed data centres - Financial Times