My Business on Alignable

Small businesses need to choose their social network battles carefully. After all, they don’t have the same time or resources of large corporations to spread their presence over every conceivable social platform available. When it comes to finding the right resources and information to grow and promote your business, Alignable is one of your options.

Here are three crucial reasons to be on Alignable for your small business:

• Expand your reach with other local businesses.
• Create a community for businesses to boost traffic.
• Create promotions for your product or service.

 

Much like LinkedIn, Alignable focuses not on connecting businesses to customers, but instead businesses to other businesses. Specifically, Alignable is a place for small businesses to connect with other local companies and help each other. Users have access to discussions, networking, Q&A forums, and messaging features.

Setting Up an Account for My Business

You can join Alignable by signing up in a few short minutes. Since Alignable is a network aimed at businesses, you won’t need to do anything special to identify yourself as a business account – everyone’s already on the same page. From there, you can start to build your network by finding other businesses, clicking the Connect button, then starting a conversation through messaging options.

You can also see posts by people in your network and even access Q&A forums. The latter is a great place for businesses to share advice for navigating the challenges of the small business world. With a collaborative effort, business owners can gain all sorts of insights from each other to help boost their brands.

Here’s a step by step version:

1. Fill out your profile and make sure it looks good.
2. Add contacts from your contact list.
3. Recommend businesses you or your company have worked with.
4. Ask those businesses to recommend you!
5. Connect with businesses with which you share customers.
6. Engage on their question/answer forum to further your reach.

How to Promote My Business on Alignable

Unless you’re a B2B company, you likely won’t find your customers on Alignable. However, that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to promote your business. What makes Alignable distinct from LinkedIn is that it allows you to focus on finding other small businesses that are in your area. When you have an event going on or you talk about a product, the business owners in your community will also see your information.

This opens the door for cross-promotion opportunities. As fellow small businesses, you all want success, and it can be possible if you help each other. If you want to promote an event happening in your store, other Alignable users can chip in and share the event with their customers, effectively expanding your reach. When the time comes, you can do the same for other businesses, creating positive feedback for everyone involved.

Those growing business connections can be the key to growing your brand even further in your local community. And if you run into a challenge with promoting your store, the Q&A forums provide a great place to bounce ideas off people who live in your area and beyond. With the active community on Alignable, you’ll be able to find the inspiration you need.

With so many social media options out there, it can be hard to figure out which ones are relevant to your business. Having a hyper-focused network that works in the same community as you can open new possibilities for promoting your brand. No matter what platforms their customers are on, all small businesses can benefit from the connections and interactive community of Alignable.

 

Sources:

https://www.alignable.com/

https://smallbizmarketingspecialist.com/3-reasons-to-be-on-alignable-the-small-business-social-network/

https://appletreemediaworks.com/alignable/