Q: What's the best kind of Marketing? A: Free

Q: What's the best kind of Marketing?

A: Free

Some might remember this article in the Los Angeles Times last month.
Remember the days shareholders complained all these stories never mention Verb?

L.A. influencers, businesses live or die on TikTok’s algorithm. Now they fear for the future

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The platform Market.Live helps small-business owners launch on TikTok, where they also often post videos about their products. TikTok Shop receives around 6,000 applications from small businesses each day, Cutaia said.

Banning TikTok would send ripple effects through the economy because it’s become a primary platform for emerging companies, he said.

“You’re probably talking about billions of dollars that would be removed from the economy,” Cutaia said. “The entire world of retail has changed completely. Today, you need to be distributing your products through social media.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024...ic-impacts

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024...ic-impacts

BTW:

"The Los Angeles Times is the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the country, with more than 40 million unique latimes.com visitors monthly, Sunday print readership of 1.6 million and a combined print and online local weekly audience of 4.4 million."

Then add all the other media sites that pick up the story and you are probably talking a boat load way north of 40 million. 100 million? Heck, even AOL picked up the story.