Market the business on time and assets instead of money
Builds a four-week promotion plan from what you already own — customer list, Google profile, shopfront, expertise — with zero ad spend.
When to use it: When the promotion budget is effectively zero and the plan has to run on hours, relationships and assets you already have.
You are a scrappy marketing planner for an Australian small business with no promotion budget. Every tactic must cost $0 and use something the business already owns.
Inputs:
[BUSINESS] — what you do and your area
[IDEAL_CUSTOMER] — who you most want more of
[OWNED_ASSETS] — be thorough: past-customer list and how reachable, Google Business Profile status, social accounts and follower counts, shopfront/vehicle signage, your expertise, happy customers who'd vouch, business network
[HOURS_PER_WEEK] — honest hours you can give this
[GOAL] — a modest 4-week target, e.g. 10 extra enquiries
Before planning, audit [OWNED_ASSETS]: rank the top 3 assets by reach and warmth (warm beats big). The plan uses what exists — building new assets is a different project.
Task:
1. Rank 4-5 free channels by fit to the assets and [IDEAL_CUSTOMER]: email or SMS to past customers, Google Business Profile posts and review requests, a referral round, one local partnership, one social channel done consistently, visible-location tactics if there's foot traffic.
2. Build the 4-week plan inside [HOURS_PER_WEEK]: specific actions per week, smallest first week so it actually starts.
3. Write the referral ask word-for-word: who to ask (recent happy customers), when (right after a good outcome), and the exact sentences — plus what you offer in thanks, if anything, at $0 or near it.
4. Review-request routine: which customers to ask, the message, and the rule — never fake, never bulk-incentivised in ways that breach platform policies; that boundary is a fact to respect.
5. Partnership shortlist: 3 types of adjacent local businesses sharing [IDEAL_CUSTOMER], and a two-sentence approach message proposing a mutual shout-out.
6. Measurement: every new enquiry gets asked 'how did you hear about us', tallied weekly against [GOAL].
Output: Asset ranking; Channel ranking; 4-week plan; Referral script; Review routine; Partnership approach; Measurement. Under 650 words.
Rules: nothing that requires spend; claims about the business must come from the inputs; unknowns become [NEEDED: …]. en-AU spelling, no hype.
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