4 free ways to support small businesses if you can’t buy at the moment!

Jody Shapiro ✍️🗃️🐾
4 min readMay 2, 2024
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Can’t afford to buy something from your favorite small businesses today?

We owners get that!

Money is tight for everyone these days.

We are all dealing with inflation and shrinkflation and worrying about the economy.

You don’t have to spend money to be a friend to a small business owner. Below are 4 no cost (just a few minutes of your time) options that will help a small business owner grow!

Four Ways You Can Help!

1. Ask the owner where their ideal clients go to learn about them and then post a message on that social media site letting people know what you love about the business.

The post doesn’t have to be long and involved!

A simple, “Hey, have you tried X’s store for your gift needs (and a link to their page on the site) can work wonders for the business!

2. Show off something you bought from the business on your social media and in the real world.

Say you bought your shirt from X’s store. When someone says “great shirt” instead of just saying “thanks”, let them know where you got it and what you love about the store.

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Jody Shapiro ✍️🗃️🐾

Reporter, writer, poet, puzzler, artist, thinker, dog mom, introvert, seller, worker bee, empath, & sensitive housed in an imperfectly perfect crazy quilt body.