r/smallbusiness

386K archived posts · Jan 2009 – Sep 2026

smallbusiness: Questions about starting, owning and growing a small business

r/smallbusiness

This sub is not for advertisements! Questions and answers about starting, owning, and growing a small business only.

Created Jan 8, 2009

1.9MMembers (last snapshot)

386KArchived posts

This sub is not for advertisements! Questions and answers about starting, owning, and growing a small business.

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Rules:

Post only questions about small business.

r/smallbusiness is a question and answer subreddit. You ask a question about starting, owning, and growing a small business and the community answers.

NO business promotion, lead generation, rants, info-tainment, success stories or unsolicited instructional texts, treatise, or how-to's are permitted in posts.

Note: You can post own experiences in the new weekly stickied or pinned share-your-experience thread.

No blog links and blog content.

Blogspam has been defined very early in r/smallbusiness as content that maybe text articles, images, or video. Practically all content, small business-related or not.

Exceptions
Allowed are links or quotes in comments and replies that are relevant to and come normally in the course of discussions.

No business promotion posts.

No business promotion posts are allowed. Promote your business in the weekly Promote-your-business thread only. Offers of free services under the pretense of 'building your portfolio' are considered business promotion, and not permitted in posts.

Exceptions You can promote your business in a relevant reply to a post or comment in other threads.

No Personal Attacks, Trolling, or Toxicity.

Exceptions None, no exceptions.

Related Subreddits

Help With Your Small Business Network

Location Specific Small Business Subreddit

/r/canadasmallbusiness

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