5 Reasons Small Businesses Should Utilize Social Media

Social media is the primary realm of communication, advertising, and entertainment in today’s world. The online world has indeed integrated itself into the lives of people. The ability to reach individuals millions of miles away from you has moved from a series of letters passed through a range of hands to just one click on social media. This kind of reach could be beneficial to many sectors, including small businesses. In a way, social media could even be a gamechanger for small business entrepreneurs.

Reasons For Small Businesses And Social Media Integration

With perhaps millions of small businesses set up in the world, various strategies are needed to connect to consumers. 

Thus, here are five reasons why small businesses should utilize social media: 

  1. Tapping A Large Online Audience

For small businesses, the controversy of ‘being glued to devices’ works to their benefit, thanks largely to numerous social media platforms. Using social media can allow small businesses to grow on a global scale and develop a wider audience through these platforms. 

There are also multiple resources that can be used for one to grow their following and spread the word about their business. Some of these include promotions by popular influencers, advertisements on ‘small business marketing’ social media accounts, and the use of hashtags. 

SMB metrics and other statistical studies reveal inspiring takes on small businesses and remind them of the extension of their relevance in all parts of life–including the online sphere. With over 3.96 billion people on social media and varied resources are available within these platforms, small businesses can certainly build a far-reaching audience.

  1. Easily Accessible To Clients

The ongoing global pandemic makes this reason notably relevant and true. In-person interactions are limited during these uncertain times. However, small businesses could use social media as a resource to indicate that the shopping experience still remains. A world of mass opportunity can be accessed by the mere lifting of a finger. The use of social media would allow for better sales management that everyone seeks.

The operation of an online store is seamless on social media. There are many software and algorithms already put in place for sellers and service providers. For example, some platforms have promotions and options of creating a business or professional account. Others have the option for joining community groups to advertising products and services in those spaces. 

These are just two of many ways in which it is clear that social media is like a permeable wall of seamless exchange between a business owner and its clients.

  1. More Than Sales Or Service Provision

Life is full of ripples of teachings and privileges. Social media updates at every second and awareness on countless relevant topics are shared. People learn about mental health, sexuality, education, and many other controversies and doctrines. Seeing the complexities of the human condition all around the world could allow one’s small business to gain more purpose or realize a much larger movement.

For example, a growing small business that specializes in makeshift shoes could encounter a poverty-stricken community on social media. They may put forward the idea of donating some of the profits there. This would allow for the growth of one’s small business to be accompanied by the support of a global movement. This would also be fulfilling for small businesses.

  1. More Opportunities For Expansion

This reason goes hand in hand with the large online audience. Once again, statistics reveal that 84% of small businesses use at least one digital platform, indicating that small businesses have already infiltrated social media. 

This would mean encountering other small businesses, collaborations, and international support for expansion would not be a rarity. Collaboration and teamwork on a global scale promote the idea of a global community and would contribute to expansion. 

  1. Financially Effective

One paid promotion by an influencer with over two million followers has grown to be much more impactful than a big billboard by the traffic lights. The use of social media is also more cost-effective. As a result, advertising, promoting, collaborating, and networking on social media could be financially better for small businesses in the long run. 

Add More To Your Small Business

There are numerous resources for productivity and management, and social media is certainly one of them. Social media is becoming the center of the lives of people, and these five reasons help encapsulate the value that small businesses could gain from utilizing social media. Engage in these reasons and assess how you would want the social media presence of your small business to look like.

Annika Bansal
 

Annika "The Chick Geek" is the founder of AnnikaBansal.com. Small Business Sense shares small business ideas, tips and resources for independent Entrepreneurs and Small Business owners.