Social Media Business Ideas
Social media has opened up a new world of business and if you have the right skills you can make your social media business a success. You can create a strategy for someone else’s content, become a YouTube personality or offer your marketing skills through social media.
Here are 10 social media business ideas that you can launch if you good at getting high engagement:
151. YouTubers
A YouTuber, also called a YouTube personality is someone who has gained popularity from their videos on YouTube.
How to start this business idea
The more followers and subscribers you have on your YouTube channel the more you can get paid for advertising. Majority of YouTubers make money from affiliated marketing, this is when they advertise something in a natural way and get paid by the company for mentioning the product during a video.
How to keep this business idea successful
You’ll need to post high quality content regularly. You could even ask your followers if there’s something they want you to talk about or try.
152. Social Media Merchant
You can use social media platforms to sell your own products or offer your services to sell products for a business.
How to start this business idea
You’ll need to setup an ecommerce store either for yourself or for your client and connect it to social media platforms like Facebook and Pinterest. Once this is up and running, you’ll need to market your business.
How to keep this business idea successful
You can also start a dedicated account and list products for sales directly on platforms like Instagram. Ensure you market your or your client’s ecommerce store on every platform you can.
153. Social Media Influencer
A social media influencer is someone who uses social media and has established credibility in a specific industry. An influencer tends to have a large engaged audience and can persuade others because of their authenticity and reach.
How to start this business idea
First, you’ll need to gather a large audience on one or more social media platforms. Once you reach a certain number of follower’s advertisers will begin to pay you to advertise their products. Just ensure you only choose products you authentically use, or you could lose followers.
How to keep this business idea successful
Continue to post and be your authentic self. You can partner up with other social media influencers so that they can gain some of your followers and you can gain some of theirs.
154. Social Media Advertising Specialist
A social media advertising specialist helps drive traffic to websites, promote content and develop relationships with key influencers and target audiences.
How to start this business idea
You can create a business by helping companies create adverts and advertising strategies for their social media advertising campaigns. Ensure you have knowledge and connections over all the social media platforms to ensure you give each client the best strategy.
How to keep this business idea successful
You’ll need to keep up with trends and influencers to ensure you can outperform your competition and keep the social media advertising campaign performing for your customers.
155. Social Media Marketer
Social media marketing is a how businesses of all sizes can reach potential clients and current customers. Consumers are already engaging with businesses through social media, you can optimise this interaction for them by driving leads and sales.
How to start this business idea
If you’re good at marketing brands and products using social media, you can offer your services to companies on a freelance basis.
How to keep this business idea successful
A good way to prove your skills is to offer them for free initially to prove your service can provide value to businesses. Once you’ve proved your worth you can work for multiple businesses full-time.
156. Community Manager
A community manager is someone who manages the community a business has created on social media platforms. This person will actively connect with potential customers and keep them engaged with the brand.
How to start this business idea
You can offer this service freelance for a business with a strong online community. This communities’ questions need to be answered and they need to be constantly engaged with, this is your job.
How to keep this business idea successful
You can offer to boost the awareness for a brand. The better you do, the more work you can get, just don’t take on more gigs than you can handle as being a community manager is quite time intensive.
157. Social Media Customer Support Rep
There are many business these days that direct their customers to their social media as their customer service or support channel.
How to start this business idea
If you have both social media and customer service experience, consider offering a social media customer support service to businesses.
How to keep this business idea successful
To remain successful, you’ll need to artfully and timeously deal with complaints and questions from customers at all hours of the day and night. The longer the customer has to wait the more frustrated they’ll become and the worse reputation your client will get.
158. Social Media Copywriter
A social media copywriter, writes, edits and publishes engaging content for clients on numerous social media platforms. Their duty is to optimise posts with language, tone and overall message based on the target audience.
How to start this business idea
If you’re a successful, out of the box writer you can offer your services to businesses who need help with their social media campaigns.
How to keep this business idea successful
To keep this successful you’ll need to work with multiple companies at the same time. Keep in mind that different strategies work on the various social media platforms, so you’ll need to adapt your writing style to suit each campaign.
159. Content Strategist
A social media content strategist helps to capture the interest of your target audience. They help to grow a client’s business through a variety of online and social channels.
How to start this business idea
You can offer your services to clients who are not capturing their customers attention. You’ll be responsible for the social media content strategy and future planning.
How to keep this business idea successful
Continue to evaluate, review and analyse how effective your strategy is and how customers are engaging with it. To remain successful and keep clients you should be proactive in coming up with fresher ideas.
160. Podcaster
Podcasting is a growing medium that influencers are using to connect with audience and open up a conversation. You can use podcasting to connect on a genuine and in-depth level with their customers.
How to start this business idea
You’ll need to start talking about something that matters to you, but also a larger audience to engage with. Once you develop a large enough following, you’ll attract advertisers.
How to keep this business idea successful
Another way to make podcasting a sustainable business is to use affiliated marketing, where you talk about products and get paid from the business. This still needs to be genuine because if your listeners feel you’re not being authentic you could lose them.