I'm starting my first ecommerce site after being a brick-and-mortar business owner for 15 years back before the internet and social media blew up. I have an extremely low budget, like freaky low, and I know nothing about marketing on social media. I just know I have a product that will show up in common searches that don't yeild many relevant results. So I believe the market is there. I've been looking at AI marketing services like [zeely.ai](http://zeely.ai) (and others but I haven't gotten too far into it with others cause I realized I don't know what I'm looking for) and I wonder if it, or any of them, are worth the price they charge (which is so little it raises red flags, but we are in a new AI world so maybe thats the going rate....I dunno). I would appreciate any positive or negitive reviews of or insight into any of these types of services being offered or even a heads up about what features I should be looking for in these tools or if they are all worthless and I'm better off doing it myself (which seems super time consuming and labor intensive....and I'm still on the learning curve with social media so I don't know if I have any business doing it anyways). I talked to someone else who runs an ecommerce shop selling a similar product (not so similar theyre competition) and they said they spend 30-45 hours a week on marketing efforts, BEYOND actually creating the posts and only get about $600 in sales a month and have been going at that rate for over a year. That seems absolutely insane to me. I'm in a better position than they are because I'm in a niche market, my SEO is pretty good, and I have a list of about \~50 customers waiting for me to launch when all I did was put up a "coming soon" landing page, send out 5 emails (1 each to 5 people, not 5 emails to a bunch of people) to past customers, info about my business and mission, and a few sample images of the types of products I will be selling 6 days ago. I am selling print on demand items on my site and Etsy (I think, still learning about Etsy) to a couple niche markets as a well established artist who kind of fell off the radar 9 years ago. I sold similar products (different niche) before the internet was huge (or at least before I was aware how huge it is, I'm kind of old) and they did really well, but they were being picked up by retail locations and made in bulk for them. Really any advice on how to spread the word without having a full-time obligation to marketing that only yields $4 an hour (if I don't consider other overhead).