How to Grow Small Business with Social Media Marketing!

Zain Saeed
5 min readJan 15, 2021

Are you a small Business owner? Are you thinking about starting a Business? Do you have trouble Growing your Business online?

Then keep on Reading this, this is for you!

Business and Social Media a perfect growth Combination

The first problem comes with small business is “Low Budget” whatever you believe it or not but this is the most basic problem 90% of Small business owners are facing nowadays. But with Social Media Marketing you can not just control your budget but you can also Grow you Business Through Social Media Marketing.

Social Media is 24/7 open market which never closes and there are a lot of options to promote your business. For example Pages, Groups are most common for Creating your Brand Official Representation on Facebook. But there is more than that, there are many Free and effective tools and features to Grow you business, which most of people don’t know. Facebook ads could help but I’m much focusing on Small business who don’t have budget to run ads.

Here are 7 Steps to Establish and Grow your Business on Social Media:

1- Create Effective and Eye-Catching Pages:

The First step to get started with Social Media is to create a Page, not just a Page, A page that reflects your Company Vision and grab User Attention. I’m talking about Profile photo/Cover and other Details. Use Original Logo, Cover and add some Industry Related high engaged keywords in your Page Bio.

A good Profile is a tool itself to attract more Users!

2- Plan You Content in Advance:

Its Important to Plan your Content in Advance, Because if you plan or post content Randomly your page won’t look like a Brand page or Professional page. Plan 2 months of content in advance, it will help you create brand identity.

Planning your Content In advance gives an edge of Faster Growth!

3- Find Your Audience:

Finding audience could be Difficult and time taking process but with the right Audience you have chances of Growth over time and you can actually scale your business, So work hard on this step and try finding the most accurate Audience for your Business.

4- Make a Long-term Marketing Strategy:

“Keep in mind this is the important step for Brand Building process so don’t use any Random Marketing Strategy”

Define your Business goals in Advance, then divide them into small milestones (Steps). So it will be easy for you to keep on moving forward with positive mindset. Once your Goals are set start with first step don’t try to do things quickly, just go with the natural process of Growth and for first few month only focus on Organic Growth. Organic methods will help you establishing roots on Social Media Platform and stronger the roots the massive the Growth will be.

5- Post, Engage and Share:

In start you need to post content too often at least 2 posts and 2 stories a day for at least 2 months. Its important to stay active and keep on Posting everyday in order to engage with User, everything starts with User Engagement. You can’t just simply ask people to buy your stuff. You have to focus on your unique selling points in order to engage with real users. Its a time taking process but its the only solid method of Growing your Business on Social Media For Free. So, Post everyday, Post Visual Content more and more (Videos, Animations, GIF’s), then join group related to your Business and start sharing your posts in those group everyday with attractive captions and offers to engage with Group Members. Don’t just keep on throwing posts in groups it will be considered as spam and Group guy’s will kick you out and Randomly throwing posts will hurt your Brand Reputation. So Focus on Quality even if its more time taking.

6- Good Content is Important:

Good Content can help you a lot in establishing and growing business on Social Media. When i say good Content I mean Original Content. If you really want to establish your Business on Social Media you must need to be patience enough to handle all the bullshit going around you. You need Original Content to promote your business, Most recent photos, Videos could be good examples for Visual Content. And also other things is Written Content which play an important role in Page Growth if you use SEO friendly, Informative and organically written content Chances are high you will grow faster than exceptions.

So Use good Visual and Written content in order to grow you business fast!

7- Stay in the Lime Light!

Its Important to stay in the Lime Light! To stay in Lime Light you need to make contentions with Influencer (Even small one’s with less followers). You can Request them or do a collaboration to promote your page, any specific product or offer. With small influencer you can get better results if you think in long-term.

So That’s all you need to start your Business on Social Media! These are Basic Steps to start and grow business for free by Using Social Media Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, and all others.

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