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

Last Updated: 02.07.2025 17:49

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:

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

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

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Processes

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

Price

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Perception

Product

Place

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Good marketing is doing this well.

People

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

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