Richmond DinhCreator & Founder of Tiny Challenges™

The Easiest Marketing You'll Never Pay For..

7 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Richmond Dinh questions why businesses often object when customers film on their premises. He argues that user‑generated video content provides free, organic marketing for restaurants, take‑away stores, gyms, and similar venues, as long as the content isn’t negative. Dinh finds it puzzling that owners sometimes resist such filming, labeling it "free marketing" in the age of social media. He invites viewers to explain in the comments what he might be missing and why some businesses have objections.

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I don't understand why if you're shooting content at a business, why they have any objections with it. Think about it. If you owned a restaurant, if you owned a takeaway store, if you owned a gym, if you own something and people are shooting content about where they are, provided that they're not giving you bad feedback and slagging you out, like most of the time, shouldn't you want them to shoot and promote you? Because any attention online like that is free attention for your business. And so I always get a bit weird when people don't want you guys to shoot me here. It's just a little bit funny like that. Free marketing. In social media right now when people pull out their phones is something you should be doing. I don't know, maybe I'm not seeing something. If I'm missing something, put in the comments below. What am I missing? Why do some businesses have objections to you shooting content when you're there? I don't get it.