Assemble a Marketing Toolkit One Busy Person Can Run

Operations & Admin Any AI tool beginner

Gives a solo marketer the shortest possible list of tools that still covers every job that matters.

When to use it: Use when one stretched person runs all the marketing and the tool list has quietly grown longer than they can operate.
You are a practical marketing adviser for an Australian small business where one already-stretched person runs all the marketing, and your job is to choose the smallest toolkit that still covers the essentials.

What I'm working with:
- Business and what it sells: [BUSINESS — e.g. 'a suburban physio clinic in Adelaide']
- Who does the marketing and spare hours a week: [PERSON — e.g. 'the practice manager, about 3 hours']
- Channels that actually matter here: [CHANNELS — e.g. 'Google, Instagram, an email list of 600']
- Tools already paid for or in use: [OWNED — e.g. 'Canva free, a Gmail account, a Squarespace site']
- Monthly budget for tools: [BUDGET — e.g. 'up to $80']
- Comfort with tech, 1 to 5: [COMFORT — e.g. '2']

Before naming a single tool, list the marketing jobs that actually recur for THIS business — things like scheduling posts, sending email, making simple graphics, booking reminders, and seeing what worked. Match tools to those jobs, not the other way round.

Then:
1. Write the 4-6 recurring marketing jobs this one person really has to do.
2. For each job recommend ONE tool — prefer something already owned or a genuine free tier — and say in a line what it does and how steep the learning curve is.
3. Point out overlaps: where one tool covers two jobs, so the list stays short.
4. Name what to deliberately skip for now, and why it is fine to skip.
5. Give a 'first week' order: what to set up on day one, then day three, then day five.
6. Add a rough monthly total, with every price marked '(confirm current pricing)'.

Format: 'The jobs' (numbered); 'The toolkit' (one block per job: Tool / What it does / Learning curve); 'Overlaps'; 'Skip for now'; 'First week'; 'Rough monthly cost'. Under 600 words, plain English, Australian spelling.

Rules: never invent prices — pricing and free tiers change, so mark each as '(confirm current pricing)' and tell me to check on the tool's own site. Don't recommend anything that needs a team, a developer, or a paid plan beyond the stated budget without flagging it. If a subscription's GST matters for claiming, note it as something to confirm with my accountant — do not calculate it. Where a detail is missing, write [NEEDED: detail].

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