Can you self-promote on r/smallbusinessindia?

Q: Can you self-promote on r/smallbusinessindia?

Self-promotion restricted. Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed. Read 2026-10-04 from the community's own rules.

Reddit rules index · read 2026-10-04

Can you promote on r/smallbusinessindia?

Self-promotion restricted Its rules restrict self-promotion. Posts that promote your own work are likely to be removed.

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Every business starts small. A community for Indian small business owners! Ps. Please don’t use the sub as your personal store front

What its rules say about promotion

Encourage discussion first - Don't treat the subreddit as your personal advertising platform
Don't treat the subreddit as your personal advertising platform Avoid posts that are primarily designed to drive traffic to your business, product, or service Focus on adding value to the community rather than extracting value. The 9:1 rule: If you do share your own content, make sure you're contributing 9 genuine - non-promotional posts/comments for every 1 piece of your own content. Remember: Build relationships first, business second. Be a community member, not just a marketer.

No SEO, website builder, paid ads, social media and software promotions targeting sub users.
Please do not make posts promoting SEO, digital marketing, ‘will build website’, scam/spam, data collection forms and “curation” lists or ‘join my group’ Please don't dm spam sub members. 3 reports will lead to ban. If you’re looking to sell software services, coordinate atleast 5 days in advance with mods. Failure to do so will result in post removal. - https://instadukan.com [for Indian businesses free ecommerce website w custom domain and seo/ad] - https://shopify.com [3 day free trial]

No links to external websites and social profiles screenshots. No “follow us on x” posts
Posts asking for follow on Instagram, Twitter and other platforms and trying to siphon users from reddit/community are not allowed. Avoid links to Instagram, other social media profiles and website. We wish to encourage users to engage on this sub. This includes follow for follow posts that share and encourage other users to share social profiles to gain followers. Talk about your product & brand, don't promote websites and links (This includes meesho, dm2buy and other unapproved sites)

No illegal products, first copies or Images/products without credits to original brand
Images and products from brands not owned by you must contain credit to original brand. Please don’t post products or images that you do not have permission to share/sell/resell/market. If you have permission, please share details with mods atleast 5 days in advance before posting to avoid post being removed. This rule is in alignment with Reddit's official Rule 7

All 10 rules of r/smallbusinessindia

Encourage discussion first - Don't treat the subreddit as your personal advertising platform
Don't treat the subreddit as your personal advertising platform Avoid posts that are primarily designed to drive traffic to your business, product, or service Focus on adding value to the community rather than extracting value. The 9:1 rule: If you do share your own content, make sure you're contributing 9 genuine - non-promotional posts/comments for every 1 piece of your own content. Remember: Build relationships first, business second. Be a community member, not just a marketer.
No SEO, website builder, paid ads, social media and software promotions targeting sub users.
Please do not make posts promoting SEO, digital marketing, ‘will build website’, scam/spam, data collection forms and “curation” lists or ‘join my group’ Please don't dm spam sub members. 3 reports will lead to ban. If you’re looking to sell software services, coordinate atleast 5 days in advance with mods. Failure to do so will result in post removal. - https://instadukan.com [for Indian businesses free ecommerce website w custom domain and seo/ad] - https://shopify.com [3 day free trial]
No links to external websites and social profiles screenshots. No “follow us on x” posts
Posts asking for follow on Instagram, Twitter and other platforms and trying to siphon users from reddit/community are not allowed. Avoid links to Instagram, other social media profiles and website. We wish to encourage users to engage on this sub. This includes follow for follow posts that share and encourage other users to share social profiles to gain followers. Talk about your product & brand, don't promote websites and links (This includes meesho, dm2buy and other unapproved sites)
No illegal products, first copies or Images/products without credits to original brand
Images and products from brands not owned by you must contain credit to original brand. Please don’t post products or images that you do not have permission to share/sell/resell/market. If you have permission, please share details with mods atleast 5 days in advance before posting to avoid post being removed. This rule is in alignment with Reddit's official Rule 7
No siphoning users from sub to other sub or groups or website and/or data collectio[SERIOUS OFFENCE]
Try to grow the community, if you can’t then please don’t try to reduce the community by siphoning sub users to other subs or groups on other platforms. Also please don't collect business and user info through landing pages/forms for any reason. The mods put in a lot of effort to get users on to the sub. It would be against the efforts if you come in and try to move the users to your personal channels. This will be considered a serious offence and will lead to a ban with no warning
No thrifted products or drop shipping
r/IndiaThriftStore/ is more suited for thrifted products r/SmallBusinessIndia encourages new and original creations rather than dropshipped products. Ok to post drop shipped only if it compliments your original product
Personal Attacks & Harassment
We welcome debate and differing opinions, but do not attack, insult, or harass other members. This includes name-calling, threats, discriminatory remarks, or any behavior intended to intimidate or belittle. Critique ideas, not people. Violations may result in removal of comments/posts and potential bans. Abusive language will lead to immediate ban
No astrology, vastu, tarot, future prediction
We believe there are better subs suited to these services like r/Astrology/ r/Vastu/ r/Tarot/
No Scams, Scammers, Beggars, Frauds
Reports of a small business user scamming or begging for money will lead to immediate ban. r/SmallBusinessIndia and it's mods cannot take responsibility for any transaction/chat with any small business user. Transactions through the sub are not encouraged. Users are responsible to check the sellers legitimacy. Sub users are requested to use modmail to report such issues or post in r/ScamReport . Small businesses may use modmail to appeal.
No appreciation posts and business review
Please post appreciation posts and business reviews in r/BusinessReviewsIndia

What the written rules don't show

Unpublished minimums. Many communities remove posts from new or low-karma accounts through AutoModerator settings that are not on the rules page, often before a moderator sees them.
Reddit's own filters. Reddit's site-wide spam filters can remove posts from accounts that mostly share links to their own site, in any community.
The community's norms. Many communities see themselves as peers, not an audience: post where you already take part, and make the post worth reading without the link.

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