@itsgingermendoza: How to get customers without spending on ads. 1.Show up at a farmers market and sell. Your stall is your best advertisement. Every person who walks past is a potential customer, a future follower, and a free word-of-mouth machine. 2. Put your Instagram handle on every single package. Every customer who walks away from your stall is carrying a moving billboard. Make sure they know who made it. 3. Trade product for posts. Find other stallholders, local businesses, or community accounts and offer your product in exchange for a tag and a post. Ginger's Kitchen got its first media attention this way — before it was even called Batch Cookie Bar. 4. Reach out to micro-influencers with a warm DM and a free product. No pitch deck. No contract. Just: 'I think you'd love this. Can I send you some?' Local and engaged beats big and distant every single time. 5. Tell your story consistently on social media. ABC and SBS came to me because of my short-form videos. I didn't pitch them. They found me. Because I showed up every week. It worked for me, it might work for you too! Follow for more . . #gingermendoza #business #business
