How can small businesses establish a strong online presence?

[Debashis]

What are the key challenges and opportunities for small businesses in establishing a strong online presence, and how can individuals with digital skills assist them in this process?

 

[Nomad]

One of the easiest ways to establish a strong online practice, even for small businesses, is through social media branding. By creating social media pages and running ads to build followers, small businesses will be able to build a strong online practice. Having a website and doing SEO also helps them to rank on online searches, which also helps in building online reputation.

 

[Grant]

The first step is to establish your business name, what it is, what you do, etc. Once you have a name and an idea, park every social site you can. This means sign up to every social site with your business name. This way you can ensure that your name won't be used by another person, as long as you park the names you don't want used.

Once you have these social accounts, get to work growing them along with your website and business. Social media is a key way to gain traffic these days, so you want to grow them to be social, so that you gain real followers and subscribers.

 

[Ja Sa Bong]

How small business can establish a strong online presence is the same way big businesses establish their own strong online presence. This is through advertising aggressively online using all the social media sites known to man.

 

[Heatman]

Establishing a strong online presence by a small business is something that is quite challenging because they don't really have the amount of capital or resources that big businesses use to invest in advertising, but it is not that they can be able to do their own part. This is why they still have to work with the different social media platform they can be able to afford to use their advertisement to promote their products.